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Labs - All Labs are Recorded in Notebook

• Science Alphabet Border : (Word Doc) (Life Science Version) Print and paste onto construction paper to create a great border and to reinforce vocabulary.
• More lesson plans and resources at Sciencespot!
• BrainPOP Science Movies : Health & General Science
• F.A.Q.'s - Before you send an email, take a look here for the answer to your question.

• Demo: Apple Demonstration Discussion about Observations  

Interactive:

• Biology Safety Tutorial
• Identify lab equipment and its uses tutorial

• Learning How to Graph Correctly Lab : What days are the busiest in the Maternity Ward? Collect class data on Birthdays. Make a Bar Graph to represent what day of the week had the most births. Make a Line Graph to represent what numerical day of the  month had the most births.

• Prokaryotes & Eukaryotes 
• Activity: Break class into groups to research a part of the cell. Groups then share results with each other. Parts of the Cell: Membrane, Cell Wall, Nucleus, ER, Ribosomes, Golgi App, Vacuoles, Mitochondria, Chloroplasts, Filaments & Tubules, Lysosomes.
• Plant and and Animal Cells for Kids

• New!! Teach Genetics from the University of Utah - tons of ready to use lessons plans!
• What is your DNA alias?  Students can spell their names with DNA code!
• CODON Bingo - students have fun with RNA codons!
• Amino acids/codon wheel - print and use!
• DNA Workshop - Computer Activity (pdf) Link
• Gummy Bear Genetics (pdf)
• Web Based Cloning Activity Worksheet (pdf), What is Cloning, and Click and Clone
• Dominant and Recessive Genes Worksheet (pdf)
• Updated Link!  Dog Recipes - Students will make their own puppies using DNA
• Baby Bunnies - make bunnies using genetic traits - Bunny Traits | Traits pg 2 | Questions
• Easter Egg Genetics Worksheet (pdf)- Use plastic eggs and candy to determine traits.
• Blank Gene Wheel - map your traits on a gene wheel
• Updated Link! Tree of Genetic Traits Great Lesson for a Bulletin Board

Interactive

• Dog breeding - try to get the right breed of border collie. Choose 1, 2, or 3 traits and difficulty levels
• The Gene Scene - 3 online activities
• Mighty Mutation Maker
• Mitosis vs. Meiosis step by step slide show

• Parts of the microscope 
• Lab: Microscope Lab (PDF)  Letter "e", Cheek Cell, & Elodea
• Microbe World - educational web site

• Classification of Blood Types A, B, O Groups - Collection of lesson plans for blood types.
• Updated Link! Lab: Creepy Critters - Students will classify and create a key for alien like creatures! This is the ppt I made for this lesson and the chart I used (pdf). 
• Lab: Shoe Classification (PDF)
• Lab: Fingerprint Classification  
• Activity: Making a Dichotomous Key (pdf) updated 2/15/11

• Movie Lesson: "Outbreak" - This is a great movie to show and discuss how viruses spread and to use vocabulary such as "host" and "mutation".  The kids really get involved. (Since it is "R" rated, look for the edited on version on cable, sometimes its on TNT or USA, if you see it, be sure to record it and save it.  I do not have a copy, sorry)

• Lab: Protists  
• Virtual Pond Dip - creatures that you may find in a water sample.

• Word Search Puzzle 
• Lab: Yeast 
• Lab: Spore Print   TOP

• The Shape of Life: PBS - very good resource on animals
• Introduction to the Animal Phyla (pdf) notes on the major phyla
• Invertebrate Critter Cards (pdf) students will classify invertebrates into 5 of the main groups (sponges -Porifera- are not included in the activity).

• Phylum Comparison Challenge (pdf)

  Students will explore the characteristics of

  the eight major animal phyla.

• More info from PBS - Very good and detailed collection of printable Activities

• Lab : Natural vs Synthetic Sponges ; Which holds more water?   TOP

• All about coral - Coriss - NOAA

• Diary of a worm - even though it is geared for younger kids, this would make a fun read-aloud book!
• This is a wonderful website with tons of info on Earthworms : check out their virtual worm - awesome! They also have lesson plans, a glossary, and detailed diagrams.
• Worm Comparison Chart (pdf)
• Worm World 
• Activity: Worm Interviews (pdf)
• Earthworm Review
• Earthworm Dissection - Lab
• LAB: Earthworm Dissection  

• All about Pearls
• Lab: Squid Dissection & Octopus Arms (pdf)
• Simple Diagram to label:
• This has a lot of details and some great diagrams for the students, pdf:
• Diagram of a squid, pdf

Interactive:

• Squid Video footage online
• Virtual Squid - no longer free
• Nature's "Encountering Sea Monsters"

• Class Arachnida- Spiders and Scorpions 
• Virtual Crayfish Dissection
• Lab: Crayfish Dissection

• Activity: Insect Poetry Assignment   

• Lab : Grasshopper Dissection      TOP

• Activity : Raising Painted Lady Butterflies
• Activity : Insect Web Page Assignment  
• Help the Honey Bees - activity book pdf download found on "How you can help" page
• A honeybee's job (pdf) worksheet by TFK

Interactive:

• Inside the Hive- learn about honeybees!
• Bee Anatomy
• Nature's "Silence of the Bees"

• Everything you want to know about fish
• Lab : Perch Dissection 
• Lab : Frog Dissection
• New version of "Frog Sandwich" - students will make anatomy booklets prior to dissection.
• Activity : Frog Sandwich

Interactive:

• Froguts.com - an interactive alternative to dissection. 

Interactive

• Penguin Science
• Nature: Penguins

Interactive:

• Cow Eye Dissection
• Nature's The Good, the Bad, and the Grizzly
• Nature's The Dolphin Defender
• Nature's The Gorilla King

• Pond Water Web
• What is like where you live?  
• Owl Family Survival (pdf)  This role playing activity simulates survival of an owl family.  Donated by Meg W.

Interactive:

• Food Chain Activity

• Lab: Natural Selection  (pdf)- using beans, students will simulate natural selection.

• Project: Leaf Collection Project 
• Activity: Observing Tree Rings
• Lab: Pickle Dissection (PDF)
• Lab: Flower Dissection (PDF)
• Lab: Tree Identification    
• Pollinator Partnership - Ecoregional planting guides.  Know what to plant in your area to attract pollinators!

Interactive:

• Dissect and label the parts of a flower

Interactive:

• ID a Tree: students will identify trees using a key

• Walk in the Forest: More interactive activities

• Help the Honey Bees - learn how we need bees to pollinate the flowers of many of the foods we eat

• Neuroscience for kids    TOP