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DNA Code

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students synthesize information gathered from the web on reading the DNA code. For this upper-level biology lesson, students use an online resource to gain information about DNA codes and then create posters on what they have learned....
Activity
Exploratorium

Secret Codon - Write a Message in DNA

For Teachers 6th - 12th
String up a message. Pupils string together colored beads to code a word or short phrase. Each color represents one of the four DNA bases. Using a combination of three bases, learners create an amino acid that stand for each letter of...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Secret Codes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine Morse code and how it is used.  In this secret codes lesson students decode messages, make their own codes and have other students crack the code.    
Worksheet
Curated OER

Secret Pseudo-Protein Code

For Students 8th - 10th
In this protein code worksheet, students are given a table of "Secret Pseudo-Protein Codes". They use the table to decode a DNA sequence and then encode an RNA sequence. They answer questions about the Secret Pseudo-Protein code.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Binary Coding

For Teachers K - 5th
Students identify different uses and forms of coding information, such as memory chips, discuss and create list of everyday items in which memory devices are used, watch video, play Bits and Bytes Game, and use binary code to encode and...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Secret Codes

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students practice writing and decoding secret messages before discussing DNA and its role as a code for making proteins. They translate DNA into RNA and identify the sequence of amino acids to find a secret message. An interactive...
Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Telegraph

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Most pupils don't know what a telegraph is, much less how one works. A secret simulation has scholars pick the size of the primary and secondary loops, the battery voltage, and which letters in the Morse Code they want to transmit. They...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Alchemy and Chemical Symbols

For Students 7th - 11th
In this alchemy instructional activity, students read about how alchemists kept their experiment notes in secret code. Students design their own secret code for the given elements. This instructional activity has 2 problems to solve.
Activity
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Stalking the Genetic Basis of a Trait

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Need an a-maize-ing lesson to show your class how regulatory genes work? If you use the well-written resource, they'll be all ears! Biology scholars discover the gene responsible for the evolution of the modern-day corn plant through a...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Meet the Recycle Guys

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this recycling activities worksheet, students draw lines to connect the names of the Recycle Guys to their pictures and use a number-letter code to find their secret message. Students write 37 answers.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Waterdrops

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science learning exercise, students investigate the subject of ground water. Students read a story and articles and complete 8 pages of games and activities such as making their own sinkhole, matching, fill in the blank story and...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Animals Secret Decoder Worksheet

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this animals activity, students use the letter key to match up to other letters to solve the code. Students solve the code for 15 different animals.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Art-seal Glyph

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this directed drawing seal glyph instructional activity, students follow directions to draw a seal. Detailed , multi-step directions are given. Students draw features according to specific preferences.
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Sorting

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students understand that sorting helps find things at a later date. In this sorting lesson, students use a website game and sort the common items. Students sort folders and other classroom items. Students discuss how sorting helped them...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Body Organization and Structure

For Students 6th - 8th
In this human body organization and structure worksheet, students complete 21 fill in the blank questions in the format of word scrambles, riddles, and puzzles.
Unit Plan
Kenan Fellows

Unit 4: Bioethics and the Future of Biotechnology

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
What's the future of biotechnology? Explore a hot topic in the fourth and final unit in a series of Biotechnology lessons. Learners develop an understanding of the many issues in bioethics, then create an argument for or against the role...
Activity
Society of Petroleum Engineers

Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy

For Teachers 2nd - 10th Standards
Energize an environmental science unit on natural resources with this collection of instructional materials. From simple coloring sheets for primary grade children, to guiding questions for a high school research...
Lesson Plan
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Protein Factory

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Learners discuss the steps of protein synthesis before acting out the process as a class. They are assigned specific roles and receive an instruction card and get materials listed in order to perform their role. Students switch roles...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Looks Like Christmas: Exploring Sight

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars participate in various hands-on activities to determine what life is like without the sense of sight.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Earthquakes-Science Puzzlers, Twisters, & Teasers

For Students 5th - 8th
In this earth science worksheet, students complete 4 word puzzlers and twisters about earthquakes as well as answer 11 true or false questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Invertebrates

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students answer the problems that are related to the concept of invertebrates. The first question has the ordering of and sorting of invertebrates.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Nature of Light

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students answer questions that are related to the concept of color and they discover what color shirts are being worn by reading the clues.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Periodic Table

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students use explore the crime of the missing elements in order to become more familiar with the Periodic Table.
Worksheet
Curated OER

The Nature of Sound

For Students 6th - 8th
In this science worksheet, students use basic scientific concepts to complete the series of puzzles that are intended to increase science literacy while focusing upon sound by listening to the tones on a telephone.

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