Lesson Plans 
Here are a few
of my lesson plans, feel free to implement!
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The
Evolution of Shribbles: a hands on activity in which students hunt
for Shribbles (beads) of different colors to demonstrate the mechanism of natural
selection
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Designing
Adaptations: Students use information about an existing ecosystem to
design new adaptations for a particular organism in that ecosystem
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Cucumber
Osmosis: Students design an
experiment to test the concentration of different NaCl solutions by observing
osmosis in cucumber slices.
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Genetics of Blood Types: Students learn about the biology of different
blood types, transfusion compatibility, and how parental blood type genotype
produces offspring with specific blood types.
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Whodunit?? Blood Typing: Using the Wards Whodunit blood typing kit,
students will use the information they learned in the previous blood typing
lesson to solve a crime by analyzing suspect blood types and comparing them to
the blood at the scene of the crime.
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Modeling the Lung: A hands on activity where students create a
model of the lungs, ribcage, and diaphragm using balloons, straws, and a 2
liter soda bottle.