Category: Worksheets
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Flex Your Muscles! A Close Look at the Biceps
Students explore how muscles contract with a focus on the biceps and triceps. They learn how muscle work by labeling diagrams and answering questions.
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Introduce Anatomy Terms with Chalk Outlines
Introduce anatomy by making a chalk outline and placing cards in the location of where the structures are located.
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Lab Introduction – Identify Equipment and Uses
Introduce students to lab equipment with this station activity. Students examine items, like a beaker, and write down the name and functions of each.
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Investigation: How Chemicals Affect Pulse Rates
Students investigate the affect of chemicals, like caffeine on the circulatory system using a blackworm specimen.
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Investigation: Algae Beads and Photosynthesis
Students use algae beads to observe photosynthesis and respiration. Algae beads are placed in an indicator solutions to measure CO2.
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Investigation: Meiosis in Sordaria Fungus
Students determine cross-over frequency in sordaria by examining an image. showing how meiosis results in unique combinations.
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Can Sport Hunting Control Predator Populations?
Examine data that compares states that allow trophy hunting of pumas to California which does not allow hunting.
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Mutations and Evolution in Aquatic Mammals
Students examine a phylogenetic tree that reveals mutations found in aquatic mammals as evidence of convergent evolution.
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Data Analysis – Invasion of the Jumping Worms
Lesson plan uses the 5E model to explore the invasive Asian Jumping Worm and its impact on soil and forests; includes data analysis.