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Antibody and Antibody Specificity The Egg Mishap
Students investigate a set of foods to find the presence of eggs after designing an experiment that will complete the test. They complete a test and discuss antibody-antigen specificity.
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A Trip To the Animal Fair
Students share their experiences they have had with animals. Using photographs of their own pets, they create a booklet out of construction paper in which they identify the pets needs. They also compare and contrast what they need to...
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Comparative Embryology Using Japanese Medaka Fish
Students conduct an experiment to control the breeding of Japanese Medaka fish. They collect the fertilized eggs and view and record the fish's embryological development daily to compare the stages to human development.
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What Is A Dinosaur?
Students use the question of "What is a dinosaur?" in order to establish the context for a class investigation. They use a variety of resources in order to gather information. Students compare and contrast the similarities or differences...
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Homology: Where Does The Evidence Lead
Learners are introduced to the topic of homology. In groups, they read a case study and compare different drawings of early vertebrate emryos. They work together to answer discussion questions and label the various parts of each embryo.
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Getting the Minerals Out
Students explore the tissues of the bone. They discuss bone composition and physiology. Students perform experiments to compare and contrast the decalcifying properties of several liquids.
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Animal Word Search by Hannah Sutherland
In this student made animal word search activity, students search for animal words hidden within the puzzle. They search for words such as butterfly, koala, meerkat, and whale.
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Oddball Out: Birds
In this problem solving worksheet, students analyze a row of pictures of various birds to determine which creature is different from the others pictured.
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Cows, Worms, and Compost
Students study decomposition. For this decomposition lesson, students discuss the background information about decomposition. Students then complete the 'Chew It Twice' worksheet.
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Germs
Third graders dicsuss germ. They discuss how they can't see them (germs), but they're everywhere! Students are asked if germs cause disease? They discuss some types of illnesses they get from germs. Students discuss ways inwhich...
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Math Club #19: Brain Twisters
In this brain twisters worksheet, 7th graders work in groups to solve 7 puzzles using logic and problems solving skills.
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Outbreak!
Eleventh graders explore the spread of a disease through a population. In this Algebra II lesson, 11th graders analyze graphical data representing they spread of a disease. Students produce a graph of the virus data, analyze the data,...
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Math Club #5: Miscellaneous II
In this math club #5: miscellaneous II worksheet, 6th graders work in groups to solve 10 miscellaneous word problems using logic and problem solving skills.
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Circle the Simile
Figurative language is a welcome addition to creative writing. Clearly describe similes with this worksheet. For each of 10 example sentences, learners have to identify what is being compared. An answer key is provided with this great...
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Lesson Plan: Omelet Cooking Principles
Although designed for a foods lab, the information in this resource might be just the thing for your own recipe notebook. Illustrated, step-by-step directions for making the perfect omelet, egg-citing puzzles, games, and even...
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Where Does Food Come From?
Distinguish between food and non-food items. Recognize that food is obtained from both plant and animal sources. Identify sources for some common animal foods then construct a simple food path from the farm to the consumer.
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Worksheet for Pi
Who needs a pie-eating contest when you have a pi-ology game! Celebrate March 14th with a fun board game about pi and other geometric concepts. As learners answer questions about geometry, they move around the board to collect tokens.
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Faux Fossil Fun
Elementary schoolers investigate how fossils are created by reproducing the process of creating an impression and filling it with a hardening material. The art lessons from this source are just fantastic! The lesson plan is well-written...
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Thesaurus Power
Give your class the advantage of Thesaurus Power! They will use a thesaurus to understand word meanings and relationships. They focus on how a thesaurus functions and how it gives the entry word, definition, synonyms, antonyms, and part...
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Capitalization
As an easy way to review capitalization rules, an upper elementary or middle school teacher could use this activity. Learners answer 10 questions by identifying whether or not the nouns in the the sentence should be capitalized.
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Idiom Exercise
Don't let your pupils bite off more than they can chew! Comprehending idiomatic speech can be very perplexing to language learners. Readers must use context clues, common sense, and knowledge of the connotative and denotative meanings to...
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Growing bacteria
Learners investigate the growth of bacteria under the right condition. In this biology lesson, students observe the growth of bacteria and fungi given the perfect condition to grow. They graph the result and investigate where else...
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A Recipe for Reading: Asian Style Rice and Eggs
Learners read, write about, and cook with rice in this home economics lesson. They reflect on the experience eating rice at home or in other ethnic foods.
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Choosing a Situation
In this ESL worksheet, students read 60 scenarios. In each scenario, students choose which situation they would prefer and why.