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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 -
Mangroves
$6.00Content: - A description of the characteristics of these unique ecosystems (location, flora, fauna, factors required for formation). - An overview of why mangroves are important at a range of scales. - A description of the factors that are resulting...$6.00 -
Coastal Erosion and Management (Holderness)
$7.00Coastal Erosion and Management- This resource looks at why some coastlines erode faster than others, how soft and hard engineering can be used to protect the coast, a focus on the case study of Holderness, north-east England. Content: - The...$7.00 -
Coasts- Landforms of Deposition
$5.50Coastal Landforms of Deposition. Content: - Describes and explains the characteristics and formation of beaches, coastal spits, coastal bars, tombolos and sand dunes. - Supported by diagrams and key terminology. - Application to real world examples...$5.50 -
Coasts- Erosional Landforms
$5.50Content: - A description and explanation of the formation of landforms of erosion: headlands and bays; caves, arches, stacks and stumps; wave-cut platforms. - Each description is supported by diagrams and key terminology. - Wave refraction and the...$5.50