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This lesson helps students: develop and use a model to explain the inheritance of traits; predict the frequency of genotypes and phenotypes in a cross...
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Seriously …That’s Where the Mass of a Tree Comes From?
This lesson helps students identify photosynthesis as the process through which plants make glucose, determine that most of the mass of a plant comes ...
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Chemistry, Toys, and Accidental Inventions
This lesson helps students distinguish between reactants and products, explain the law of conservation of matter, measure properties or reactants and ...
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Nature’s Light Show: It’s Magnetic!
This lesson helps students draw and describe Earth’s magnetic field, explain the phenomenon of the aurora, summarize a text, including the central i...
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Thermal Energy: An Ice Cube’s Kryptonite!
This lesson helps students recognize that different materials have different thermal properties, distinguish between qualitative and quantitative meas...
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This lesson helps students to recognize that interventions can slow or stop the negative impact of human activities on the environment, identify strat...
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This lesson helps students to develop and use a model of the Sun–Earth system to explain: the relationship between the amount of sunlight and the se...
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This lesson helps students explain that Earth’s history is broken up into smaller time periods and rocks and fossils provide evidence for these time...
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This lesson helps students recognize that secondhand evidence can be used to answer scientific questions, describe how organisms change over time in r...
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Core Idea PS4: Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
Like all enthusiastic teachers, you want your students to see the connections between important science concepts so they can grasp how the world works...
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Great news for multitasking middle school teachers: Science educators Terry Shiverdecker and Jessica Fries-Gaither can help you blend inquiry-based sc...
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Next Time You See a Cloud (Sample)
Next time you want to see a show, go outside and look at the sky. The clouds will put on a show for you with their ever-changing shapes and sizes. Thi...
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UV or not UV? That Is a Question for Your Sunglasses
What makes a windup toy get up and go? How does an earbud operate? And why does the line you’re waiting in always seem the slowest? Get middle-schoo...