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Enhance your lessons in cell structure, diffusion and osmosis using Flinn Scientific study kits, models and posters especially developed or chosen to assist in your classroom.
Use the 4 labs in this 360Storyline to lead students to a written understanding/working model of how scientists learn about the structure and function of cells ultimately lead to medical advances.
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360Science™ blends the best of student-engaging digital content with easily adaptable hands-on labs to offer your students a uniquely comprehensive learning experience.
In this lab experience, students will become familiar with bioinformatics; the interdisciplinary field of science that integrates biology, computer science, software tools, databases, information engineering, mathematics, and statistics. They will explore the National Center for Biotechnology Information Website and utilize BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool). The conservation of the enzyme cytochrome C and its presence in thirteen eukaryotic organisms will be determined. Editable, differentiated instructions range from a time-sensitive prescriptive lab to full open inquiry, and robust online videos and content—including a virtual reality (VR) simulation—help students prepare for and better understand the labs they’re conducting.
In this lab experience, students explore the consequences of uncontrolled cell division. They will explore how scientists use karyotyping to detect chromosomal errors associated with cancer and other diseases. Students assemble a paper karyotype with a chromosomal error and compare it to a normal karyotype. Editable, differentiated instructions range from a time-sensitive prescriptive lab to full open inquiry, and robust online videos and content—including a virtual reality (VR) simulation—help students prepare for and better understand the labs they’re conducting.
In this lab experience, in Part I, students investigate diffusion of ions into a model cell using dilute hydrochloric acid solution and agar blocks containing phenolphthalein, an acid–base indicator. In Part II, students construct model cells using dialysis tubing to enclose sample solutions containing water, sodium chloride, glucose, sucrose or albumin. The ability of various substances to diffuse across a semipermeable dialysis membrane is investigated by measuring the net direction of osmosis for five different pairs of solutions representing model cells and the surrounding cytoplasm, respectively. Editable, differentiated instructions range from a time-sensitive prescriptive lab to full open inquiry, and robust online videos and content—including a virtual reality (VR) simulation—help students prepare for and better understand the labs they’re conducting.
In this lab experience, students make a wet mount of an onion epidermis and observe the epidermal cells when exposed to sodium chloride solution. Students are challenged to determine the concentration of five different sucrose solutions using potatoes. Editable, differentiated instructions range from a time-sensitive prescriptive lab to full open inquiry, and robust online videos and content—including a virtual reality (VR) simulation—help students prepare for and better understand the labs they’re conducting.
In this lab experience, students carry out an investigation on how the addition of the auxin indole-3-acetic acid, IAA, impacts the rate of mitosis in an onion plant root. They will get the opportunity to compare onion roots grown with and without this additional IAA hormone. Students will perform a chi-squared analysis on the class results. Editable, differentiated instructions range from a time-sensitive prescriptive lab to full open inquiry, and robust online videos and content—including a virtual reality (VR) simulation—help students prepare for and better understand the labs they’re conducting.
In this lab experience, students carry out an investigation to detect molecule movement across a semipermeable phospholipid membrane using a single-celled eukaryotic organism. Students observe the movement of the pH sensitive vital stain, neutral red, across the phospholipid membranes of yeast cells and determine how high heat impacts this movement. In addition, they will add various basic solutions to the yeast-neutral red suspension to detect movement of molecules across the cell membrane. Editable, differentiated instructions range from a time-sensitive prescriptive lab to full open inquiry, and robust online videos and content—including a virtual reality (VR) simulation—help students prepare for and better understand the labs they’re conducting.
In this lab experience, students carry out three investigations to observe behavior of planaria. They will further investigate planaria growth and development by examining the ability of this animal to regenerate after the division of its body using three different prescribed cuts on three different specimens. Planaria are required and available separately. Editable, differentiated instructions range from a time-sensitive prescriptive lab to full open inquiry, and robust online videos and content—including a virtual reality (VR) simulation—help students prepare for and better understand the labs they’re conducting.
Engage your students with Interactive Notebook Activity Packs. The Interactive Notebook flippers will have your kids “flipping” their way through learning all about science. Disseminate these lessons as you see fit whether creating a PowerPoint, in a class discussion or as small group activities. The possibilities are endless! Each Interactive Notebook Activity Pack includes directions for and photographs or examples of each activity, teacher notes and answer keys.
Includes 140+ PDF pages (30 activities), including differentiated black line and color templates, covering the following topics:
Science terminology doesn’t have to be overwhelming. With more than 250 different vocabulary terms, this colorful visual word wall meets all learners’ needs with an illustration and word root, suffix and prefix on each card. Each set can be printed in English and/or Spanish. Use the included arrows to show relationships among the words and help students make connections with their science vocabulary.
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Eight vocabulary lessons are bundled in this differentiated packet for both below-level and at/above-level readers. Each integrated literacy activity offers a teacher-written, student-friendly reading introducing new terminology in a fun and engaging way as well as graphic organizers, fill-in-the-blank or other methods of vocabulary interaction. The readings are the same for all levels of readers, but the questions are different so students don't even need to know that they are receiving work different from their peers!
For below-level readers, ESL students or those that require scaffolding, the reading provides bold-faced terms, simple matching and guided extension questions.
For above-level, honors, AP or challenge students, the reading provides regular typeface, graphic organizers for creating connections with terminology and rigorous and challenging extension questions.
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The open-ended, inquiry-based Life Science Task Cards will get kids thinking about science! Engage students with more than 130 life science task cards, perfect for warm-ups, exit tickets, project starters, stations, differentiation, review, enrichment and more. Use the activities as stand-alone lessons or supplements to the Getting Nerdy® Life Science Curriculum Bundle. Includes directions and answer keys for each activity in the seven topic sets:
Getting Nerdy has a new twist on S.T.E.A.M.! With science as the primary background subject, students learn all about life science using social studies, technology, English language arts, art and math. The student-led, print and go, low-to-no prep science circuit stations are easy to implement with a few household items.
Included in this bundle are signs for seven stations with more than 40 station sets aligned to NGSS covering the following topics:
Also includes blank templates to create your own stations, directions for each activity, answer keys and student station role descriptions for each of the following:
This Getting Nerdy® Life Science curriculum bundle puts everything you need at your fingertips to teach an entire year of life science. With more than 30 weeks of lessons, teachers and students enjoy daily warm-ups, lessons, labs, activities, projects, study guides and assessments and an animated PowerPoint for each of the following units:
This year-long bundle includes a 650+ slide fully editable PowerPoint presentation with title slides, objectives, bell work, guided notes and animations along with 450+ PDF pages that include aligned notes, labs, projects, activities, study guide and assessments.
