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Adaptations: Match the Trait to the Job
Students match animal and plant features to how they help survival, sort adaptations as structural or behavioral, and design a creature for a desert habitat.
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Balancing Chemical Equations: Count, Adjust, Check
Students balance eight chemical equations by changing coefficients only, count atoms in a table, and judge sample balancing attempts.
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Beyond Dominant and Recessive: Snapdragons and Blood Types
Students use Punnett squares to explore incomplete dominance in snapdragon flowers and codominance in human ABO blood types.
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Body Systems Teamwork: Match the System to Its Job
Students match eight body systems to their jobs, sort organs into systems, and explain how systems cooperate during a jog.
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Bones, Joints and Muscle Pairs
Students read a short passage on the skeleton, sort bones into axial and appendicular groups, match joints to types and explain how muscles work in pairs.
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Build the Atom: Protons, Neutrons, Electrons and Isotopes
Students use atomic number and mass number to find particle counts for atoms and ions, then calculate an average atomic mass from isotope data.
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Cafeteria Waste Audit: Percent, Recycling and Diversion
Students analyze a sample school cafeteria waste audit, calculating percentages, recycling and diversion rates, and yearly totals, then propose a waste reduction plan.
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Classification: Use a Dichotomous Key
Students use a printed dichotomous key to identify eight animals from descriptions, learn how scientific names work and write a short key of their own.
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Classification: Using a Dichotomous Key and Naming Organisms
Students use a paper dichotomous key to identify five animal groups and use scientific names to decide which organisms are most closely related.
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Deep Time: Scaling Earth’s History and Reading Rock Layers
Students shrink 4.6 billion years onto a 46-meter rope to see how recent humans are, then use a sample rock column to order layers and a fault by relative age.
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Density Detective: Mass, Volume and Kinds of Matter
Students sort samples of matter into elements, compounds and mixtures, then use mass and volume to calculate density and identify unknown metals.
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Density Detectives: Mass, Volume and Floating
Students use provided mass and volume data to calculate density, predict floating or sinking, and solve density problems.