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Plant Field Study: Adaptations of Plants for Survival in Different Environments
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Evolution and Adaptation, PhysicsThis is a field investigation where students observe plants in a school forest setting . Students then compare adaptations of pl...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Physiology Monitoring and Cycles Lab with Report
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Life Sciences, Human Anatomy & Physiology, ScienceThis activity allows students to explore and reflect on circadian rhythms in themselves, influences of their lifestyle on those ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Phylogenetics problems
Grades: 9 to 12, Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Evolution and AdaptationStudents receive information about cladistics and apply this phylogenetic approach to two problems, collecting data, determining...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Phenylketonuira
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Biochemistry, Life Sciences, Science, Measurement, Tools, and Data AnalysisIn this activity, students are assigned different alleles of the gene for phenylalanine hydroxylase to research using OMIM (Onli...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Perfect Competition: A Context Rich Problem
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Professional DevelopmentStudents find the profit-maximizing level of output for a perfectly competitive firm and check the shut-down condition for two d...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Partial Derivatives: Geometric Visualization
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Professional Development, MathematicsThis write-pair-share activity presents Calculus III students with a worksheet containing several exercises that require them to...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Our Place in the World (Long Island Series)
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Professional Development, ScienceOur Place in the World is a hands-on Google Earth activity designed to establish a local, regional, and global geographic contex...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Our Big Backyard: How does our local ecosystem change during the year?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Physics, Earth's Resources, Ecology & EcosystemsThis activity is a field investigation where students will make observations on a chosen location every two weeks for the period...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Open Outcry Market
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Economics, History-Social ScienceThis example is an in-class market simulation conducted with paper cards assigning each student a buyer or seller role and a res...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Oil and Water Art Project
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis is an art project where oil paints and water is used. Students will have already explored the densities of oil and water.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Observing Cell Division
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional Development, Cells, Life Sciences, ScienceThis is a classroom activity in which students observe and describe cells in stages of division. They share observations about w...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Observation of a Candle
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Chemical Reactions & Stoichiometry, ChemistryThis is a lab experiment where students make detailed observations of a candle use them to infer the products of combustion of a...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Obesity Epidemic
Grades: Undergraduate to GraduateSubjects: Professional Development, Instructional StrategiesA one page activity that takes students to several websites related to the obesity epidemic. First they can calculate BMI, then ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Newton's Second: Having A Ball With Motion
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional DevelopmentThis activity is a field investigation where students design and test a gravity ball launcher, record their observations, and sh...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Motion - Investigating Motion Graphs
Grades: 6 to 9Subjects: Professional DevelopmentIn this activity students analyze the motion of a student walking across the room and predict, sketch, and test distance vs. tim...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Moon Phases Box
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Our Solar SystemThis activity is an observation opportunity for students to view the phases of the moon and learn that the juxtoposition of the ...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Monohybrid Fruit Fly Crosses: A Simulation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Evolution and Adaptation, Professional Development, DNA, Genetics & BiotechnologyThis assignment uses a computer simulation of fruit fly genetics to have students design and interpret monohybrid crosses of a t...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Monitoring pollution in a freshwater environment
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Physics, Earth's Resources, ScienceThis inquiry lab is useful for monitoring water pollution in a freshwater system using direct and/or indirect methods.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Modeling Valence Electrons
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Atomic Structure, Professional Development, PhysicsThis activity is a guided practice and scaffolding activity in which the students learn how to configure electrons of elements a...Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0Minnehaha Falls: Observing Changes in Nature through Drawing and Writing
Grades: TK/K to 6Subjects: Professional Development, Earth & Space Science, Earth's Resources, Life Sciences, Ecology & EcosystemsThe activity is a field trip to Minnehaha Falls where students will observe and record their findings in a science notebook.Contributor: Pedagogy in Action (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0