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    Diploid vs Haploid Worksheet
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    In this meiosis chromosome worksheet, students answer questions about the number of chromosomes generated by either mitosis or meiosis. Haploid and diploid chromosome numbers help students understand the reproduction type used in each process.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-4
    HS-LS3-1
    HS-LS3-2
    MS-LS3-2 (Types of Reproduction)
     
    Published by NGSS Life Science
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    Cellular Respiration Modeling Lab
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    In this cellular respiration modeling lab, students act out the three parts of cellular respiration: glycolysis, electron transport chain, and the Kreb cycle. Students at the end of the lab will learn the chemical formula for cellular respiration, how ATP is synthesized using NADH and FADH2, and why acetyl Co-A is broken down and CO2 gas is released as a waste product. This cellular respiration modeling lab is great for visual and kinesthetic learners.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-7
    HS-LS2-3
     
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    Endocytosis Lab
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    In this endocytosis modeling lab, students try to figure out how to put food molecules into a paper bag by only using their hands and string and without exposing the inside of the bag. This modeling lab is a challenging activity until one group gets why the string is needed to pinch off the side of the bag to make a vesicle around the food molecules. Topics covered include vesicles, endocytosis, and phagocytosis.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS1-2 (Cell Organelles)
     
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    Intro to Microscopes Lab
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    This accessible microscope lab introduces how to focus the microscope. Topics in this microscope lab include objectives, the field of view, resolution, making a wet-mount slide, and measuring with a ruler.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS1-1 (Cell Types)
     
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    Biological Acids and Bases Lab
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    In this introductory acids and bases lab, students will determine the pH of common household acids and bases and transfer their knowledge about acids and bases to the human body's homeostasis. This lab is an easy hands-on biochemistry lesson to introduce homeostasis to students.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-3
     
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    Double Helix Modeling Lab
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    In this DNA modeling lab, students build a paper model of the double helix. Students label the DNA molecule with the four DNA nucleotides and practice nitrogen base paring. At the end of class, students can attach all the models and twist and coil them to simulate super coiling.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS3-1
     
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    Tracing Energy Through an Ecosystem
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    In this activity students are reminded of why organisms need to lose carbon atoms: They need to use the chemical energy in organic molecules. All carbon-transforming processes use chemical energy for some cell functions; then lose heat to the environment (this heat is ultimately radiated into outer space). Thus, matter cycles; energy flows in ecosystems.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS2-4
    MS-LS2-3 (Cycles & Energy Flow)
     
    Published by CarbonTIME
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    Tracing Carbon Through an Ecosystem Lab
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    In this activity students shift to following a pulse of 500 carbon atoms through all the carbon pools in an ecosystem, considering the carbon transforming processes (eating, digestion, biosynthesis, photosynthesis, cellular respiration and death/defecation) that move atoms from one pool to another. They see how the pattern they observed in Lesson 2—the organic matter pyramid—emerges from these carbon-transforming processes.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-5
    HS-LS1-7
    HS-LS2-4
    MS-LS2-3 (Cycles & Energy Flow)
     
    Published by CarbonTIME
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    Organic Carbon Pools in Other in Ecosystems Worksheet
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    Students consider different ecosystems that have different amounts of organic carbon to begin to think about carrying capacity.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS2-4
    MS-LS2-3 (Cycles & Energy Flow)
     
    Published by CarbonTIME
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    Biomass Patterns in Ecosystems
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    Students use the results of the Meadow Simulation to recognize a consistent pattern in ecosystems: the biomass in the herbivore population is smaller than the producer biomass, and biomass in the carnivore population is always the smallest.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS2-4
     
    Published by Carbon TIME
  •  Lab Experiment
    Tree Octopus
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    A website that tries to convince people that there are tree octopi. A great website to teach a lesson on how to evaluate what students read, research multiple sources when gathering data, and that when an observation does not agree with an accepted scientific theory, the observation is sometimes fraudulent. Use of the computer lab or classroom computers with Internet access is needed for students to read all about the tree octopus.
    NGSS Standard
     
    Published by Wild Haggis Conservation Society
  •  Lab Experiment
    Enzyme Specificity Lab
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    Students learn how enzymes function how they bind to specific substrates using lactose and sucrose. 3 mini experiments are included in this lesson plan.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-3
     
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
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    Genetic Drift Lab
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    Students role dice and chart how a pretend worm population reproduces through many generations. This activity is easy to perform and lets students visually see how an allele frequency appears to occur randomly. 5 colored pencils and dice are required for each group of students.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS4-5 (Artificial Selection)
    MS-LS4-6 (Trait Frequencies)
     
    Published by The University of Arizona
  •  Lab Experiment
    The Immune Response Activity
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    Students place paper signs on a red blanket and perform a sequence of events that mimic the humoral immune response.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-2
    MS-LS1-3 (HBS)
     
    Published by Margaret Mikel
  •  Worksheet
    Kindney - Nephron - Bowmen’s Capsule - AP
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    Students color in the different parts of a kidney, nephron, and Bowmans capsule and then answer 5 analysis questions.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-2
    MS-LS1-3 (HBS)
     
    Published by Shannan Muskopf
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    Cell City Analogy WS
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    This simple worksheet provides a narrative story about the different parts of a city with underlined words. Students then match the underlined words with the different organelles of a cell.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS1-2 (Cell Organelles)
     
    Published by Shannan Muskopf
  • Multimedia
    Understanding Cancer
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    Multimedia
    This is a great information webpage about what is cancer, the kinds of cancer, screening methods, causes, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and so much more. The teacher notes is about myths and misconceptions around commonly asked questions about cancer.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-4
    HS-LS3-2
    HS-LS3-3
     
    Published by National Cancer Institute
  •  Lab Experiment
    Vertebrate Classification Challenge
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    Students practice a vertebrate classification using the organisms discussed in the Prentice Hall textbook called the Parade of Life: Animals.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS2-5 (Biodiversity)
    MS-LS4-2 (Anatomical Structures)
     
    Published by Tracy Trimpe
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    Invertebrate Classification Challenge
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    Students practice an invertebrate classification using the organisms discussed the Prentice Hall textbook called the Parade of Life: Animals.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS2-5 (Biodiversity)
    MS-LS4-2 (Anatomical Structures)
     
    Published by Tracy Trimpe
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    North American Biomes Worksheet
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    Students color in the appropriate biome on a map of North America. Students then answer several questions about those biomes.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS2-1 (Resource Availability)
     
    Published by Shannan Muskopf
  • Multimedia
    Survival of the Sneakiest - Comic Strip
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    This comic follows the efforts of a male cricket as he tries to attract a mate, and in the process, debunks common myths about what it means to be evolutionarily "fit."
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS4-2
    HS-LS4-4
    MS-LS4-4 (Benefits of Variation)
     
    Published by Josh Frankel
  •  Lab Experiment
    Human Population Growth Lab - Spread of an Infectious Disease
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    In this human population growth lab, students simulate the exponential growth of an infectious disease in a population. Students then discuss how human diseases spread and their exponential and logistic growth curves. Lastly, students graph the simulated results.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-2
     
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
  •  Lab Experiment
    Fungi Lab - Moldy Jell-O
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    In this fungi lab, students learn to design an experiment by creating an independent variable and using mold growth as the dependent variable.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS2-1 (Resource Availability)
     
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
  •  Lab Experiment
    Food Chain Lab - Owl Pellets
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    In this food chain lab, students dissect owl pellets to learn how the owl is part of a food chain. Since the owl regurgitates these compact pellets, owl pellets are undigested parts that the owl eats, which contain fur and bones of small rodents. Dry pellets will not smell and are acceptable for students to handle with gloves.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-2
    HS-LS2-4
    MS-LS1-7 (Metabolism)
    MS-LS2-1 (Resource Availability)
     
    Published by Shannan Muskopf
  •  Lab Experiment
    Mitosis Microscope Lab
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    In this mitosis lab, students will observe plant cells in the different phases of the cell cycle, including interphase, mitosis, and cytokinesis. This mitosis microscope lab is a great lab to help students practice their microscope skills, including focusing and the field of view.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-4
    MS-LS3-2 (Types of Reproduction)
     
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