Biology Labs


  • Lab Experiment
    Plant Anatomy Lab - What Parts are Food?
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    Lab
    In this plant anatomy lab, students learn about the structure of angiosperm plants and their diversity of plant forms. Students make claims about which parts of plants, fruits, and vegetables come from.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS1-4 (Animal Plant Structures)
    		  
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
  • Lab Experiment
    Evolution by Natural Selection Lab
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    Lab
    In this evolution by natural selection lab, students start by answering questions on how mice's habitat affects the survival rate of different fur colors of mice. The students simulate the mice using a fork or spoon and a cup and try to eat pom-poms. The pom-poms are different colors, and they reside in different color habitats. Students learn how other evolutionary adaptations contribute to differences in survival and reproductive rates, allowing students to see changing allele frequencies in their modeled population.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS4-2
    HS-LS4-3
    HS-LS4-4
    MS-LS4-4 (Benefits of Variation)
    MS-LS4-6 (Trait Frequencies)
    		  
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
  • Lab Experiment
    Transcription and Translation Lab - From Gene to Protein
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    Lab
    In this transcription and translation lab, students learn how a gene provides the instructions for making a protein, and how a mutation in the gene for sickle cell hemoglobin can result in sickle cell anemia. Students use paper models to transcribe and translate the DNA into a protein.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-1
    HS-LS3-1
    HS-LS3-2
    MS-LS3-1 (Mutations)
    		  
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
  • Lab Experiment
    DNA Extraction Lab
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    Lab
    In this DNA lab, students extract DNA from their cheek cells to learn about the structure of DNA and DNA replication. The lab has students think about why they were using each reagent and how that relates to the polarity of lipids. Students answer questions regarding DNA base pairing and it relates to the central dogma (DNA - Proteins - Traits).
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-1
    HS-LS3-1
    		  
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
  • Lab Experiment
    Sense of Taste Lab
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    Lab
    In this lab about the sense of smell and taste, students investigate how a person identifies different flavors of jellybeans. Students learn about the olfactory receptors and the olfactory bulb transmit information to the brain and how the brain interprets salt, sweet, sour, bitter, or savory flavors.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-2
    MS-LS1-3 (HBS)
    MS-LS1-8 (Brain)
    		  
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
  • Lab Experiment
    Genetics Lab - Introduction
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    Lab
    In this genetics lab, students are introduced to genetics vocabulary, including meiosis, fertilization, Punnett squares, and pedigree analysis. Students flip coins to mimic the probability of genetics and use the coin flip results to answer inheritance questions.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS3-3
    		  
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
  • Lab Experiment
    Chromosome Modeling Lab - Mitosis, Meiosis and Fertilization
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    Lab
    In this chromosome modeling lab, students create pairs of socks models of chromosomes to model the processes of mitosis, meiosis, and fertilization. Students also build a foundation about meiosis and fertilization and how it relates to genetics and genetic disorders.
    NGSS Standard
    HS-LS1-4
    HS-LS3-1
    HS-LS3-2
    		  
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty
  • Lab Experiment
    Osmosis and Diffusion Lab
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    Lab
    What is osmosis? In this diffusion lab, students make predictions about the effects of osmosis to try to answer this driving question. The experiment focuses on students designing experiments to test these predictions. Students should have prior knowledge of diffusion.
    NGSS Standard
    MS-LS1-2 (Cell Organelles)
    		  
    Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

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