Biology Labs

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  Carbohydrate Modeling Lab - Ball-and-Stick Metabolism
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  Lab Students will learn act out polymerization by performing carbohydrate dehydration synthesis and carbohydrate hydrolysis using chemistry models. Students will also model breaking of one biomolecule to make a different biomolecule. Students will be able to model how polymers are made and how polymers are broken. Students will also be able to describe how the atoms in one macromolecule can be use use to make a different macromolecule.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-6 MS-LS1-7 (Metabolism) Common Core Standard W 9-10.2.D, 9-10.7. RST 9-10.3, 9-10.4, 9-10.7
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Photosynthesis Modeling Lab - Ball-and-Stick
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  Lab Students will learn about the inputs and outputs of photosynthesis by building ball and stick chemical models. Students will also experience the law of conservation of matter by breaking CO2 and H2O into Glucose and O2. Students will be able to write a CER answering the question: How are the atoms in carbon dioxide and water related to the glucose molecule and oxygen molecules synthesized in photosynthesis?
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-5 Common Core Standard W 9-10.2.D, 9-10.7. RST 9-10.3, 9-10.4, 9-10.7
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Design a Homeostasis Lab
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  Lab This is an introductory lesson into how to design an experiment. Students will practice writing a hypothesis. Students will create procedures to conduct their own experiment. Students will create a data table for their experimental data. Students will write a conclusion that has them focus on evidence from their experiment.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-3
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Plant Growth Germination Lab
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  Lab The goal of this basic lab is break the misconception that photosynthesis is how plants grow. Students should also learn that plants grow by cell division. Students will be able to move past the misconception that plants use photosynthesis, not cell division, to grow.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-4 HS-LS1-5 Common Core Standard RST 9.10.3, 9.10.5, 9.10.7, WST 9.10.1b, 9.10.1e, 9.10.2a, 9.10.7, 9.10.9
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Examining the Fossil Record Lab
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  Lab Students analyze the characteristics of fossils, organize paper "fossils" to show change over time by developing an evolutionary tree based on the morphology and age of fossils.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS4-1 MS-LS4-1 (Fossils) MS-LS4-2 (Anatomical Structures)
  Published by Shannan Muskopf

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  External Anatomy of a Frog
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  Lab The eyes, legs, and mouth of the frog is dissected and analyzed.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS) MS-LS1-4 (Animal Plant Structures)
  Published by Shannan Muskopf

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  Fetal Pig Dissection
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  Lab Fetal Pig dissection lab manual.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS) MS-LS1-4 (Animal Plant Structures)
  Published by Shannan Muskopf

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  Blood Type Genetics Lab
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  Lab In this blood typing lab, students pretend to investigate blood samples (actually simple chemicals) and use their analysis of the experiment to solve a crime and determine if two babies were switched in the hospital.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS3-3
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

More lesson plans are in the works.