Activity Lesson Plans
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Chromosome Mutation Activity Lesson Plan (PDF)
Lesson Plan (DOCX) with Membership
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This activity is inquiry based where students mimic chromosome mutations by cutting and pasting paper chromosomes. Students then use this activity to defend a claim that inheritable variations can be caused by mutations.NGSS Standard
HS-LS3.B: Variation of Traits
Published by NGSS Life Science High School
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Cell Size - Surface Area Activity Lesson Plan
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This unit is an integration of important geometry, biology, and technology skills. The students will be using spreadsheet programs to solve problems relating surface area to volume ratios. Students will use cell models to observe the effect of increasing surface area to volume ratios on cell growth and functioning.NGSS Standard
Published by Pete Anderson, Wendy Benz, Patty Glasgow, Keisha C. Ashton High School
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Water Cycle Model Lesson Plan
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Students to create their own working model of the water cycle using common materials found in a science classroom.NGSS Standard
Published by B.A. Campbell, R. Kelly, C.A. Schlosser, D.R. Belvedere High School
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Coral Reef Detectives: “Who Done It?” Lesson Plan
Alternative Lesson Plan
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Students try to solve a mystery of the disappearing seahorse babies. Student learn about the suspects: tilapia, lionfish and turtle. Then students will fill out a chart about the suspects that will give clues about who had the seahorse babies for supper. At the end, students share their finding and vote to determine who was the guilty party. This webquest is a modified version of the forest animal mystery, which is listed as the second lesson plan.NGSS Standard
Published by Diane Findlay Elementary School
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Experience Deep Time & Earliest Fossils Lesson Plan
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Students gradually build a realistic sense of deep, geological time from familiar linear analogs, e.g. calendars and football fields. Students also learn to associate the earliest fossils of specific groups of vertebrates with the geologic time of their emergence, on the now-familiar scale of relative distances from their school. From this, students discover the pattern of gradual vertebrate emergence and how well it consistently fits vertebrate phylogeny.NGSS Standard
HS-LS4.A: Evidence of Common Ancestry and Diversity
Published by Larry Flammer High School
More lesson plans are in the works.