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Natural Selection: Toothpick Fish
$2.00Students simulate an ecosystem and the process of NATURAL SELECTION. The process demonstrates how DNA, genetics, fuels the adaptation of camouflage by allowing those best suited for the environment to survive and mate. The final round of the simulation...$2.00 -
Succession: Success through Knowing Succession
$2.00Students move through stations to explore different aspects of SUCCESSION. The lab serves as either an introduction or review of the concepts depending on the style of implementation.A high interest, fun, hands on lab experience for students ranging from...$2.00 -
Succession: Forest Management
$2.00Students receive a donation of a fictional forest in which they decide how to divide and manage. The lab introduces concepts of stewardship and accounting, giving an opportunity to experience the business side of science. Color coding of the equations...$2.00 -
Evolution: Apples Don't Fall far from their Tree
$2.00Students learn how to make an EVOLUTIONARY cladogram using Apple corporation mobile products (ipods, iphones, ipads, etc). The lab shows how new adaptations can lead to branches in evolution trees. The thought process involved in the lab makes reading...$2.00 -
Natural Selection: Angry Birds
$2.00Students learn NATURAL SELECTION through a simulation. Students play as birds and in an outdoor field setting they collect toothpicks scattered around in 30 sec rounds. After a set number of rounds the instructor informs them of an adaption developed by...$2.00 -
Natural Selection: Snurfle Islands
$2.00Students are guided in the use of the "Snurfle Islands" computer game found on the internet to learn about Natural Selection. The computer game alone does not teach important features about NATURAL SELECTION, but when paired with this lab worksheet the...$2.00 -
Evolution: Pokemon Gotta Catch em All
$2.00Students explore EVOLUTION through the process of creating a CLADOGRAM of Pokemon. No previous Pokemon knowledge is required for the activity. Using pop culture enhances the interest level of the students.A high interest, fun, hands on lab experience for...$2.00 -
Symbiosis: Why Can't we be Friends
$2.00Students journey through different SYMBIOTIC relationships analyzing them for their type. A combination of cross-word puzzle for review and progressive, live-action board game style play, engages the learner.A high interest, fun, hands on lab experience...$2.00 -
Food Web: Weaving a Web
$2.00Students become a part of a FOOD WEB in this simulation using a series of FOOD CHAINS. Students work together as a whole class and build a FOOD WEB using rope/string. Once the web is built, students can easily see the interconnected nature of life...$2.00 -
Nitrogen Cycle: From Poop to Plants
$2.00Students role-play as NITROGEN and cycle through ecosystem. Students simulate being nitrogen and get an in person experience as to where and how nitrogen makes its way in and out of living things.A high interest, fun, hands on lab experience for students...$2.00 -
Jurassic Park - A Project on Topographic Maps and Historical Geology
$2.50My students absolutely loved this project! It took us four days and they enjoyed every moment. Students choose a geologic time period to research and then create a topographic map on. The map is a park map and includes things like a key, contour lines, a...$2.50 -
How to Write a Research Paper
$5.99As a middle school teacher, I believe that teaching students to write a research paper is the most important skill that I can give them. This unit is meant to have students go step by step through The Writing Process in order to write a MLA-Style...$5.99