Hank describes why plants are so freaking amazing - discussing their evolution, and how their cells are both similar to & different from animal cells.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Crashcourse
- Date Added:
- 01/31/2019
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What do plants need? Students examine the effects of light and air on green plants, learning the processes of photosynthesis and transpiration. Student teams plant seeds, placing some in sunlight and others in darkness. They make predictions about the outcomes and record ongoing observations of the condition of the stems, leaves and roots. Then, several healthy plants are placed in glass jars with lids overnight. Condensation forms, illustrating the process of transpiration, or the release of moisture to the atmosphere by plants.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Christopher Valenti
- Denise W. Carlson
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Date Added:
- 10/14/2015
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Developed for third and fourth grade. This is a very content driven experiment. Students will dissect flowers, with the main focus and emphasis being on learning the different parts and functions. Especially parts that are most necessary for survival. Students will also play a game to learn new vocabulary about plants.Biology In Elementary Schools is a Saint Michael's College student project. The teaching ideas on this page have been found, refined, and developed by students in a college-level course on the teaching of biology at the elementary level. Unless otherwise noted, the lesson plans have been tried at least once by students from our partner schools. This wiki has been established to share ideas about teaching biology in elementary schools. The motivation behind the creation of this page is twofold: 1. to provide an outlet for the teaching ideas of a group of college educators participating in a workshop-style course; 2. to provide a space where anyone else interested in this topic can place their ideas.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- WikiEducator
- Date Added:
- 05/21/2018
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This lesson is part 2 in a 6 part unit on Biotechnology use in Agriculture Studies. It sets the foundation for the culminating project by teaching students about germination and the factors that effect germination. Students will be introduced to the factors that effect germination and then perform an experiment that allows them to evaluate germination rates.
- Subject:
- Agriculture Studies
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Author:
- Crystal Grooms
- Date Added:
- 10/28/2019
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During this lesson students will be exposed the requirements of plants for growth. Students will have the opportunity to become familiar with each requirement for plant growth, and what effect that requirement has on the plant.
- Subject:
- Agriculture Studies
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Author:
- Austin Large
- Date Added:
- 10/28/2019
"Canadians have more choices and pay some of the lowest prices in the world for FOOD — thanks in part to the plant science technologies farmers use, from pesticides to plant biotechnology."
Use this resource to learn more about food.
- Subject:
- Agriculture Studies
- Biology
- Environmental Science
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Primary Source
- Author:
- CropLife
- Date Added:
- 11/03/2021
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Students gain an understanding of the parts of a plant, plant types and how they produce their own food from sunlight through photosynthesis. They also learn about transpiration, the process by which plants release moisture to the atmosphere. With this understanding, students test the effects of photosynthesis and transpiration by growing a plant from seed. They learn how plants play an important part in maintaining a balanced environment in which the living organisms of the Earth survive. This lesson is part of a series of six lessons in which students use their evolving understanding of various environments and the engineering design process, to design and create their own model biodome ecosystems.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Christopher Valenti
- Denise W. Carlson
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014
Hank gets into the dirty details about vascular plant reproduction: they use the basic alternation of generations developed by nonvascular plants 470 million years ago, but they've tricked it out so that it works a whole lot differently compared to the way it did back in the Ordovician swamps where it got its start. Here's how the vascular plants (ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms) do it.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Crashcourse
- Date Added:
- 01/31/2019
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This site helps students see how plants and animals interact to accomplish pollination. Students (Grades 3-8) identify plant and animal parts involved in pollination, connections between pollination and food production, relationships between pollinators and the plants they pollinate, and ways flowers have adapted to encourage pollination.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Education
- Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- Smithsonian Institution
- Provider Set:
- Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
- Date Added:
- 09/10/2004
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Une série de simulations provenant de l’Université de Colorado à Boulder pour les 9e – 12e au sujet des sciences.
«Les étudiants prédiront la polarité des liaisons en utilisant les valeurs de l'électronégativité ; indiqueront la polarité avec une flèche polaire ou des charges partielles ; classeront les liaisons par ordre de polarité ; et prédiront la polarité moléculaire en utilisant la polarité des liaisons et la forme moléculaire.»
- Subject:
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Science
- Material Type:
- Simulation
- Author:
- Chris Malley
- Emily Moore
- Julia Chamberlain
- Kathy Perkins
- Kelly Lancaster
- Robert Parson
- University of Colorado Boulder
- Date Added:
- 01/08/2024
Hank talks about the last major way humans are impacting the environment in this penultimate episode of Crash Course Ecology. Pollution takes many forms - from the simplest piece of litter to the more complex endocrine distruptors - and ultimately, humans are responsible for it all.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Environmental Science
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Crashcourse
- Date Added:
- 02/08/2019
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With a simple list of necessary supplies, science teacher Mrs. Seay gets her class completely involved in the task of identifying and classifying organisms found in local pond water.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Teaching/Learning Strategy
- Provider:
- Teaching Channel
- Provider Set:
- Teaching Channel
- Date Added:
- 05/24/2018
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Students will explain the concept of diversity and calculate various ways to measure diversities. Students will analyze data and factors limiting a population, and evaluate human impact on biodiversity. (Note: this unit was designed for an IB Environmental Sciences course.)
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Lesson
- Provider:
- South Metro-Salem STEM Partnership
- Author:
- Sara Childers
- Date Added:
- 05/24/2018
Population ecology is the study of groups within a species that interact mostly with each other, and it examines how they live together in one geographic area to understand why these populations are different in one time and place than they are in another. How is that in any way useful to anyone ever? Hank uses the example a of West Nile virus outbreak in Texas to show you in this episode of Crash Course: Ecology.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Environmental Science
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Crashcourse
- Date Added:
- 02/08/2019
Hank talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Author:
- Crashcourse
- Date Added:
- 01/31/2019
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Using Avida-ED freeware, students control a few factors in an environment populated with digital organisms, and then compare how changing these factors affects population growth. They experiment by altering the environment size (similar to what is called carrying capacity, the maximum population size that an environment can normally sustain), the initial organism gestation rate, and the availability of resources. How systems function often depends on many different factors. By altering these factors one at a time, and observing the results, students are able to clearly see the effect of each one.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Jeff Farell
- Jennifer Doherty
- Wendy Johnson
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014
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This lesson is the second of two that explore cellular respiration and population growth in yeasts. In the first lesson, students set up a simple way to indirectly observe and quantify the amount of respiration occurring in yeast-molasses cultures. Based on questions that arose during the first lesson and its associated activity, in this lesson students work in small groups to design experiments that will determine how environmental factors affect yeast population growth.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Lesson
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Mary R. Hebrank
- Date Added:
- 09/18/2014
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This is a very easy to understand explanation of the virus, as well as what we can all do to help. Understanding can help everyone process what is happening in the world.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Education
- Science
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Date Added:
- 03/30/2020
Unrestricted Use
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This textbook is designed specifically for Kansas State's Biology 198 Class. The course is taught using the studio approach and based on active learning. The studio manual contains all of the learning objectives for each class period and is the record of all student activities. Hence, this textbook is more of a reference tool while the studio manual is the learning tool.
- Subject:
- Biology
- Science
- Material Type:
- Textbook
- Provider:
- Rice University
- Provider Set:
- OpenStax CNX
- Author:
- Bruce Snyder
- Christopher Herren
- David Rintoul
- Eva Horne
- Martha Smith-Caldas
- Robert Bear
- Date Added:
- 10/10/2016
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This is a crash course for Middle and High School students on Project Management. It is designed to be used in conjunction with a project they are working on in school.