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Investigate Effects of an Oil Spill
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This activity is a classroom chemistry lab where students will test different cleaning methods that could be used in oil spills. They will see the effects how oil spills damage animals and the environment.

Subject:
Ecology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Mary Walsh
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Acid Rain: The Affect of Acid on Seed Germination
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This activity is a self-created lab investigation where students gather data on acid and its affects on seed germination.

Subject:
Ecology
Life Science
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Assessment
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Animals: Interdependence of Life In A Habitat
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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.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Julie Carroll
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Biodiversity in Your Schoolyard
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In this field lab students will investigate the biodiversity around their school. Students will perform a biodiversity count using transect line. The students will develop multiple hypotheses relating to biodiversity and propose additional procedures for studying, collecting and testing these questions.

Subject:
Ecology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Todd Koenig
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Biological Classification: Organization of All Living Things
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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)

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Lindsey Olive
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Classification: Minnesota Vertebrates
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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.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Stan Mraz
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Decomposition: Processes of a Plant
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Students observe the decomposition of a pumpkin under controlled circumstances. These observations are used to take notes and develop questions.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Ecosystems: Determining Feeding Relationships Among Organisms
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This activity is a field investigation in which students identify organisms and their energy sources. Students collect data and create a food web that explains how the organisms in their ecosystem are related.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
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Activity/Lab
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Anna Potvin
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Germination in Plants: An Inquiry Approach to Germination Growth in Pet Plants
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This activity is a lab activity where students grow two radish seeds, and manipulate a variable that may affect the germination time and growth of the radish seed.

Subject:
Botany
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Jennifer Perry
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Habitats: Human's Influence on the Land
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This investigation is a field study where students compare the diversity of plants and insects in a naturally existing habitat to that of a human altered habitat.

Subject:
Ecology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Richard Busse
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Insects in Nature
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This activity is a field investigation where students collect insects to analyze, observe, and classify

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Heidi Kuechle
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Joints: Naming and Identifying Joints in the Human Body
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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.

Subject:
Anatomy/Physiology
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Kathy DeCock
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Leaves: October Leaf Collection
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This activity is a field investigation where students collect leaf samples to be observed and compared monthly.

Subject:
Botany
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Leaves: October Leaf Collection
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This activity is a field investigation where students collect leaf samples to be observed and compared monthly.

Subject:
Botany
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Local Plant Growth: Structures and Functions
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This activity is a classroom investigation where students gather descriptive data on two different plants with a partner, and on other plants during a classroom discussion.They will then interpret their findings, and classify the plants, if applicable, into monocots or dicots.

Subject:
Anatomy/Physiology
Botany
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Carole DuRand
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Macroinvertebrates: How Clean is Our Lake?
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This 3-part lesson begins with a field activity beside a lake or stream where students collect and identify macro invertebrates. During the second and third portions of the lesson, students conduct research to answer questions that they have regarding the macro invertebrates that they have identified and then based on the types of macro invertebrates found make a general determination of the cleanliness of the lake.

Subject:
Environmental Science
Life Science
Zoology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Joan McKinnon
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Microbes in a Nature Center
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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.

Subject:
Biology
Life Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Mary Holmberg
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Natural Selection: Observing Stabilizing and Directional Selection Through Graphical Analysis of Population Samples
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This lab activity demonstrates the difference between stabilizing and directional natural selection using two separate populations of sunflower seeds.

Subject:
Life Science
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
John Haug
Date Added:
02/10/2023