This activity is a field investigation where students will learn the importance of detail when nature journaling.
- Author:
- Julie Dahl
- Dahl, Julie
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This activity is a project in which students research keystone species and report on specific species to the class.
- Author:
- Sarah De La Forest
This activity is a field investigation where students will observe, discuss, and gather evidence on how environmental changes affect animals that live in that habitat.
- Author:
- Julie Carroll
Students will investigate the organization of all living things through and learn how to classify through process of classifying their own shoes. Students will complete the classification of a Jaguar and write their own pneumonic device to remember the order of biological classification. (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)
- Author:
- Lindsey Oliver, Fridley Middle School, Fridley, MN
- Lindsey Olive
This activity is an interactive game that helps students learn that vertebrates are classified into five groups and that each group has common characteristics that distinguish the animal group from other respective groups.
- Author:
- Stan Mraz
Students observe the decomposition of a pumpkin under controlled circumstances. These observations are used to take notes and develop questions.
This activity is a presentation of honeybee anatomy and behavior.
- Author:
- Patricia Babolian
This activity is a field investigation where students collect insects to analyze, observe, and classify
- Author:
- Heidi Kuechle
Short Description: This activity is a classroom investigation of human joints. Students will identify joints and use their science notebooks to record their findings using drawings and words.
- Author:
- Kathy DeCock
This field and classroom activity involves identification of similarities, differences, advantages, and disadvantages in survival, method of locomotion, food acquisition, and reproduction in three fresh-water microbes.
- Author:
- Mary Holmberg
This is an investigative lab to provide students with an opportunity to practice observation skills and develop cooperative group proceedures.
- Author:
- John Mettling Pine City Elementary Pine City, MN Inspired by an expirament on Robert Kampf's web site - http:/www.krampf.com/expirament_vid.html.
- John Mettling
This activity is a classroom lab where the students gather data on the affect water has on gummy bear candies and develops an experiment based on a new question regarding a not plain water solution. Students will perform calculations and graph their results.
- Author:
- Katie Melgaard
This first grade field and classroom activity leads students to discover their natural world through observation and measurement.
Students design and conduct simple experiments using elodea (aquatic plant sold in pet stores) and Bromthymol blue to determine whether plants consume or release carbon dioxide in the process of photosynthesis. Students will record their data which will be used to conclude whether carbon dioxide was consumed or released by the elodea. Through class discussion of student data, students will learn that carbon dioxide was consumed during photosynthesis.
Students work in pairs to compare five aspects of an organism that reproduces sexually, asexually, or both sexually and asexually. The activity comes with a chart for the students to fill out and with information sheets on twelve organisms. As a class, students share their comparisons and generate a list of general characteristics for each mode of reproduction and then discuss the advantages and disadvantages of both. Included in the discussion are reproductive mechanisms and genetic variation.
This guided inquiry is a laboratory investigation on soil textures where students gather and analyze data, compare findings and develop new experimental questions.
- Author:
- Wayne Buckley
- Wayne Buckley Laporte Public School Laporte,MN
In activity is a Biology field lab where students will investigate the relative health of an aquatic system based on bioindicators. Students will then summarize and reflect upon their findings.
- Author:
- Matthew Duffee
In this biology investigation, students will make observations of the growth of bean seeds to determine what plants need to live and grow in a healthy way.
- Author:
- Anne Flynn
This activity is based on observations of mealworms form a question and make decisions as to the design of an investagation. Students use data collected to make a conclusion to their questions.
- Author:
- Patty Gardner
This activity is a combination of a field investigation and direct instruction at Minnehaha Falls. We are investigating Twin Cities rock types and weathering from the flowing water.
- Author:
- Justin Larson Kevin Swanson Chippewa Middle School North Oaks, MN
- Justin Larson
- Kevin Swanson