This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Investigating Inherited Traits and Learned Behavior." In this activity, students work collaboratively to research the inherited traits and learned behaviors of a specific animal. This is the sample of a completed project.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this video, students learn that heredity is the passing of traits, or features, from parents to offspring through genes. Genes, which are found inside cells, are shared from one generation to the next, passing on all kinds of characteristics like eye color, dimples, freckles, and height.
Material Type: Lesson
In this lesson, students learn that charactersistics are inherited. Students will take an inventory of their own traits and their classmates' traits. As a homework assignment, students will check to see if family members possess any of the traits that were observed in the class.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This lesson will examine the key DNA coding which leads to key proteins animals use to maintain their existence.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
This resource is a part of the Battlefield Earth lesson plan. This resource provides step by step ways for teachers to implement the lesson.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
Students will understand the role of DNA in protein synthesis. The relationship between protein synthesis and the characteristics of an organism will be analyzed through an activity that allows students to model the process.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students use slinkies to imitate and better understand the two types of waves assocaited with earthquakes.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this activity, students play a game that simulates the carbon cycle. During the activity students will compare the carbon cycle before and after the industrial revolution.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this simulation activity, students will examine natural selection in a small population of wild rabbits.
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Students will use an online calculator to estimate their household's carbon footprint and explore various actions to reduce it.
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Students will investigate comparative anatomy of organisms - visually, verbally, and kinesthetically - and how these organisms have changed through adaptation and evolution. To meet this objective, each group of students will perform seven independent activities at seven separate stations.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this simulation activity, students will collect data, formulate a hypothesis, and run a series of experiments in order to discover the interplay between natural selection and sexual selection in a wild population of guppies.
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This webpage provides graphics illustrating adaptive structures and adaptive behaviors of unicellular organisms.
Material Type: Lesson
Students examine exponential and logistic growth, identify carrying capacity, distinguish between density-dependent and density-independent limiting factors, apply the population model to data sets, and determine carrying capacity from population data.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
In this interactive module, students examine exponential and logistic growth, identify carrying capacity, distinguish between density-dependent and density-independent limiting factors, apply the population model to data sets, and determine carrying capacity from population data.
Material Type: Interactive
In this activity students build protein bracelets using beads with different colors and shapes that represent the different amino acids.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
In this biology lesson with math and ELA integration, students use real rock pocket mouse data to illustrate the Hardy-Weinberg principle.
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This interactive animation shows the user the process of meiosis and the changes a cell undergoes at each stage of cell division. The resource does allow one to view meiosis as a continuous sequence or stop at any stage and review critical events taking place during each stage.
Material Type: Interactive, Lesson
Students will explore how human population growth, air pollution, agriculture, mining, water use, and other human activities have impacted the environment and the mark they will leave in the fossil record.
Material Type: Interactive
Students create a marine ecosystem and describe the adaptive, trophic, and symbiotic relationships between the biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem.
Material Type: Lesson Plan
