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Eating Healthy
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In this lesson, at the end of a 3-day period, students will tabulate calories, fat content, type of fat, sugars, protein, and minerals based on their individual diets.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=03010992356
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Epidemic Proportions
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In this lesson, students research various epidemics that have devastated the world population at various points in history. They then share and calculate statistics obtained in their research and develop graphs comparing and contrasting how different epidemics affected the global population
http://nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/19980908tuesday.html
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Escher On The Brain
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The objective of this lesson is to create a model of an Escher Staircase for testing brain activity.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=030412152015
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Feeling Faint?
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In this activity, students make and compare measurements of heart rate and blood pressure from three body positions: sitting, standing, and lying. This will simulate how blood pressure is affected in gravity and in microgravity conditions.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=03010775954
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Finding Out About Herbs In New Mexico
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In our modern technological society, health care has become a big issue. The rising costs of adequate health care is making it impossible or nearly impossible for many people to receive medical treatment for illnesses. Those who can afford good medical attention are paying huge premiums and may eventually reach a point where they too will no longer be able to afford medical care. How has the current situation arrived at this point? Why has this situation never been such a huge problem in the past? Of course, there are many reasons for this dilemma and no easy answer is in sight. Nevertheless, one possible solution may be found by studying the use of medicinal herbs in Latin America. Plants have been used for their medicinal values in Latin America for thousands of years. The herbal plants in the rain forests of Latin America, for example, hold the secret to thousands of remedies that are yet to be discovered. By studying the uses of herbal plants of the past and present in Latin America we may develop keen insights into how civilizations have flourished in the past. Furthermore, we can learn how modern day uses of herbs are helping to sustain societies today where western medicine is not easily available.
http://ladb.unm.edu/retanet/plans/sci/hugo1.html
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Fish Kills!
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Fish Kills! is an open-ended inquiry activity intended for secondary school students. This project gives students the opportunity to formulate their own research questions, explore and locate information, assess their findings, and present their information.
http://www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction/terminal/lessons/fishkills.html
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Flex Your Surfing Muscles
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The objective of this lesson is to research muscles on the Internet, and to learn about the different types of muscle cells found in the body.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=030505135650
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Frosty the Snowman Meets His Demise: An Analogy to Carbon Dating
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In this Science NetLinks lesson, students will be asked to consider the case of when Frosty the Snowman met his demise (began to melt). The exercise they will go through of working backwards from measurements to age should help them understand how scientists use carbon dating to try to determine the age of fossils and other materials. To be able to do this lesson and understand the idea of half-life, students should understand ratios and the multiplication of fractions, and be somewhat comfortable with probability. This lesson is the third in a three part series about the nucleus, isotopes, and radioactive decay.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/Lessons.cfm?DocID=171
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Fruit Fly Genetics
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Fruit Fly Genetics. Teacher Sheet(s). Objective: To determine the phenotype and genotype of fruit fly crosses by constructing Punnett squares. Level: 9-12. ...
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=040121132706
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Hair Transplant
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This Weekly Science Update, found on the Science NetLinks website, focuses on hair transplantation. Students learn of research that has revealed the existence of a cell involved in follicle growth, which, when donated, is not rejected by the recipients immune system. Using a 90-second net-radio format, Weekly Science Updates are mini-lessons designed to introduce and investigate various scientific concepts.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=26
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Hominid Diet
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This Weekly Science Update, found on the Science NetLinks website, focuses on the diets of certain early hominid species, and on recent changes to certain long-held beliefs about what these potential ancestors of man may have eaten. Students learn about the work of Lucinda Backwell of the University of Witwatersand in South Africa, who has discovered certain tools that may have been used by this early species to break open termite nests. Using a 90-second net-radio format, Weekly Science Updates are mini-lessons designed to introduce and investigate various scientific concepts.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=66
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How We See: The First Steps of Human Vision
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Vision is a complicated process that requires numerous components of the human eye and brain to work together. The initial step of this fascinating and powerful sense is carried out in the retina of the eye. Specifically, the photoreceptor neurons (called photoreceptors) in the retina collect the light and send signals to a network of neurons that then generate electrical impulses that go to the brain. The brain then processes those impulses and gives information about what we are seeing. In this unit we will investigate the initial steps in the process of vision. We will discover how the photoreceptors work, and will specifically examine at the photoreceptor proteins to learn how light energy is converted into electrical energy. Additionally, we will examine some of the current studies that are helping to further our understanding of the proteins involved in the vision process
http://www.accessexcellence.com/AE/AEC/CC/vision_background.html
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Identifying and Differentiating between Seals and the Sea Lions
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By the end of this assignment groups of students should be able to: Identify and differentiate between the California Sea Lion, the Northern (Steller) Sea Lion, the Harbor Seal and the Elephant Seal by comparing external anatomical features of each organism; Relate the structure and behaviour of the seals and sea lions to their survival at Race Rocks; Give examples of how the differences in individuals of the same species may give an advantage in surviving and reproducing; Discuss how changes in these organisms habitat can affect the survival of individuals as well as the entire species.
http://www.racerocks.com/racerock/jason/pinnipeds/index.html
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Irradiation
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The objective of this lesson is to explore whether or not irradiation makes a difference in appearance or taste.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=030103123021
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Learning from Hibernating Animals
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This Weekly Science Update, found on the Science NetLinks website, focuses on the study of animals that hibernate. Students learn about the work of molecular biologist Matthew Andrews and the potential impact this work may have on the preservation of human organs. Using a 90-second net-radio format, Weekly Science Updates are mini-lessons designed to introduce and investigate various scientific concepts.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=27
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LIFELINE: Bioethics and Humans
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It is often difficult to present materials on abortion and the right-to-life issues without seeming to be espousing a specific view point or ethical belief system. In this activity, it is the students that must deal with the issue and construct their own limitations by defining the "human" condition
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Biology/BIO0037.html
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Look At That Liver!
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The objective of this lesson is to study liver biopsy samples under a microscope and compare them.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=030502135650
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Microbe Invasion
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The objective of this lesson is to predict the conditions necessary for bacterial growth, to test these predictions, and to practice aseptic techniques and safety procedures needed when working with bacteria.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=030103111855
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Microbial Magnet
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The objective of this lesson is to examine the magnetotaxis characteristic of the bacteria Aquaspillum.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=021224114256
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Microbiology
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No one knows for certain how life began. We know that all terrestrial life has strings of DNA and life forms (except for viruses) are made up of cells, which are tiny containers that hold the DNA and other chemicals useful to the replication process. The early life forms were single cells. In this lesson, students discuss their first life forms and how they live in their climates, sketch their unicellular organisms, write a description of how life arose on their planet. Medium text/HTML Type Lesson plan Level 9, 10, 11, 12, Subject biology Keywords DNA, Cells, Microbiology, Genes, Photosynthesis, Chromosomes, Life forms, Unicellular life forms, Amino acids, Asexual reproduction, Mediator Teachers Beneficiary Students Price Code Free Online Provider California State University, Los Angeles Record Created Date 2002-03-28T12:30:19-5:00 Cataloging Tool GEMCat 3.22 Cataloging Organization GEM Site Identifier csula More Than Meets the EyeDescription In this lesson, students mirror Archimedes' method for developing and understanding scientific principles. Students formulate a list of questions based on observations about interactions and changes in nature, write a descriptive paragraph about observations of a specific phenomenon, conduct research on the principles behind the phenomenon, and reflect on how their investigation of this phenomenon represents Archimedes' methods.
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/les4/Vles4.html
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Monitor Your pH
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The objective of this lesson is for students to learn why pH is a carefully monitored variable in human health.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=030109141320
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Monkey Brains
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This Weekly Science Update, found on the Science NetLinks website, focuses on questions surrounding the regeneration of brain cells. Recent discoveries made in a study done on monkey brains by Psychologist Charles Gross at Princeton University may be challenging long-held beliefs about whether human brain cells are capable of regenerating throughout adult life. In addition to the obvious implications of this research, students will also benefit from the object lesson provided here, that science is indeed a self-corrective process. Using a 90-second net-radio format, Weekly Science Updates are mini-lessons designed to introduce and investigate various scientific concepts.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.cfm?DocID=32
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Nature's Pharmacy: Killing the Cure?
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In these lessons, students examine the medicinal benefits of plants. Activities include recording an oral history of medicinal uses and a lab experiment with spices.
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/lessons/plotkinlessons.pdf
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Negative Feedback Flowcharts
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In this activity, students will identify the elements of positive and negative feedback systems and create flowcharts to model the systems.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=030110103506
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Neural Connection
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The objective of this lesson is to identify the parts and functions of a neuron.
http://www.nasaexplores.com/show_912_teacher_st.php?id=021223125456
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