Activity Lesson Plans

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  Carbon Cycle Modeling Activity
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  Activity There are four stations where students practice and build the concept that carbon cycles between reservoirs. Each station represents a lesson, and student cycle through the stations to learn from each lesson.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS2-4 HS-LS2-5 MS-LS2-3 (Cycles & Energy Flow)
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  BLAST Cancer RAS Gene Activity
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  Activity Students will do a BLAST and learn about how a mutated gene will code for an abnormal protein, affecting the organism’s phenotype.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-1 HS-LS3-1 HS-LS3-2
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Metabolism Food Label Activity
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  Activity Students will design a lunch based on the type of biomolecules in food they would eat.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-6
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Metabolism Ball & Stick Model Activity
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  Activity Students will learn act out polymerization by performing dehydration synthesis and hydrolysis using chemistry models. Students will also model breaking of one biomolecule to make a different biomolecule. Students will be able to model how polymers are made and how polymers are broken. Students will also be able to describe how the atoms in one macromolecule can be use use to make a different macromolecule.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-6 Common Core Standard W 9-10.2.D, 9-10.7. RST 9-10.3, 9-10.4, 9-10.7
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Photosynthesis Ball-and-Stick Model Activity
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  Activity Students will learn about the inputs and outputs of photosynthesis by building ball and stick chemical models. Students will also experience the law of conservation of matter by breaking CO2 and H2O into Glucose and O2. Students will be able to write a CER answering the question: How are the atoms in carbon dioxide and water related to the glucose molecule and oxygen molecules synthesized in photosynthesis?
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-5 Common Core Standard W 9-10.2.D, 9-10.7. RST 9-10.3, 9-10.4, 9-10.7
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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