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Texas Gateway: Law of Conservation of Energy: Heat Transfer

For Students 9th - 10th
Given illustrations, scenarios, descriptions, and/or diagrams, students will demonstrate understanding of heat transfer.
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Texas Gateway: Mechanisms of Genetics: Dna Changes

For Students 9th - 10th
Given illustrations or partial DNA sequences, students will identify changes in DNA and the significance of these changes.
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Texas Gateway: Natural Selection and Selective Breeding

For Students 9th - 10th
Use the 5E model to learn about natural selection and selective breeding.
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Texas Gateway: Nuclear Chemistry: Radioactive Decay

For Students 9th - 10th
Given illustrations, symbols, or descriptions, students will balance nuclear equations.
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Texas Gateway: Objects in Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides flexible alternate or additional learning activities for students learning about the concepts of distance, speed, and acceleration.
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Texas Gateway: Organisms' Adaptations

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios, illustrations. or descriptions, the student will compare variations and adaptations of organisms in different ecosystems.
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Texas Gateway: Plate Boundaries

For Students 7th - 9th
Find out about what happens at plate boundaries.
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Texas Gateway: Organism Relationships: Food Chains, Webs, Pyramids

For Students 9th - 10th
Given illustrations, students will analyze the flow of matter and energy in food chains, food webs, and ecological pyramids.
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Texas Gateway: Scientific Investigation and Reasoning Data Organization

For Students 7th - 9th
Using interactive exercises, students will review how to construct tables and graphs in order to organize data.
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Texas Gateway: Scientific Models

For Students 9th - 10th
Given a description or illustration of various models, students will describe how these models represent the natural world and evaluate the advantages and limitations of the models.
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Texas Gateway: Scientific Reasoning Planning Investigations

For Students 7th - 9th
Given scenarios of comparative and experimental investigations, students will plan and implement investigations by making observations and asking well-defined questions and formulating testable hypothesis.
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Texas Gateway: Speed, Velocity, and Acceleration

For Students 7th - 9th
Given descriptions, illustrations, graphs, charts, or equations, students will differentiate between speed, velocity, and acceleration.
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Texas Gateway: Survival of a Species

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios, illustrations or descriptions, the student will describe how long-term survival of species is dependent on changing resource bases that are limited.
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Texas Gateway: Symbiosis

For Students 9th - 10th
Given scenarios or illustrations, the student will determine the nature and type of relationship between organisms, including parasitism, commensalism, mutualism, and competition.
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Texas Gateway: Theories

For Students 9th - 10th
Given laboratory investigation scenarios, students will distinguish between scientific hypotheses and scientific theories.
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Texas Gateway: Types of Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Students will distinguish between and/or interpret the types of motion.
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Texas Gateway: Wave Behavior: Doppler Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
Given diagrams, scenarios, or illustrations, students will identify the characteristics of the Doppler effect.
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Texas Gateway: Waves: Practical Applications

For Students 9th - 10th
Given diagrams, scenarios, illustrations, or descriptions, students will identify uses of waves in medical and industrial applications.
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Texas Gateway: Work and Force

For Students 6th - 9th
Given descriptions, illustrations, graphs, or charts, students will contrast situations where work is done with different amounts of force to situations where no work is done, such as moving a box with a ramp and without a ramp or...
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Texas Gateway: Work Energy Theorem

For Students 9th - 10th
Using diagrams, illustrations, and relevant data, students will calculate the net work done on an object, the change in an object's velocity, and the change in an object's kinetic energy.
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Texas Gateway: Quadratics: Connecting Roots, Zeros, and X Intercepts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given a quadratic equation, the student will make connections among the solutions (roots) of the quadratic equation, the zeros of their related functions, and the horizontal intercepts (x-intercepts) of the graph of the function.
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Texas Gateway: Writing Verbal Descriptions of Functional Relationships

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Given a problem situation containing a functional relationship, the student will verbally describe the functional relationship that exists.
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Texas Gateway: Exploring Probability With Independent Events

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Given a problem situation, students will use experimental data or theoretical probability to make predictions and determine solutions to situations involving independent events.
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Texas Gateway: Analyze Famous Speeches for Rhetorical Structures and Devices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will learn to analyze persuasive speeches and examine the impact of rhetorical structure and the use of devices in famous speeches. It includes activities such as matching quotes from famous speeches to the speakers...