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Investigating Balance: Change vs Interaction
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This activity can be conducted in the classroom. The students are given an opportunity to discover the basic concept of balance/counterbalance and how evenly distributed weight affects an object.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
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Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Batteries: Building an Electrolytic Cell
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This activity is an inquiry where students will design an electrolytic cell that produces work in the form of lighting a bulb.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Physics
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Carolyn Fruin
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Best Amount of Water to Fly a Bottle Rocket
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This learning experience is where students launch a bottle rocket and compare how long the bottle was in the air to how much water is placed in the rocket.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Linda Becker
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 Buoyancy: Calculating the Maxium Load of a Ship
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This lab activity allows students to apply their knowledge of Archimedes' Principle by calculating the maximum buoyant force that a ship can produce.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
John Haug
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Buoyancy, Density, and Fluid Principles: Making a Mini-Submarine
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This activity is a lab where students design an experiment to construct a self-powered mini-submarine that stays underwater for at least 10 seconds, and then float back up to the top of the water level. Buoyancy and density are applied and discussed.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Abigail Baker
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Characteristics of Enzymes and the Factors That Affect Their Function
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This classroom lab allows students to develop skills of the scientific method while exploring the characteristics of enzymes.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical 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:
Jen Vance
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Chemical Reactions:  Factors Which Influence the Rate of a Reaction.
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This activity is an inquiry based lab where students determine 3 ways to change the rate of the chemical reaction between hydrochloric acid and alka-seltzer.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Chromatography: Selecting Variables
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This activity is a classroom investigation where students separate pigment in dyes in order to learn about mixtures and solutions. They use chromatography to design and experiment with a single variable to answer a question about which ink will separate the most - has the greatest variety of pigment.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Nancy Gerber
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Chromatography: Separating Pigments
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This activity is a lab investigation where students design an experiment to extract pigments (AKA chromatography) from different colored, water soluble markers.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Sybil Haas
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Chromatography: Separating Pigments
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This activity is a lab investigation where students design an experiment to extract pigments (AKA chromatography) from different colored, water soluble markers.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Sybil Haas
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Circuits: Building and Comparing Current Intensities of Series, Parallel, and Complex Circuits
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This activity is a indoor lab where students investigate the current differences in different circuits where students build a small house and construct different types of circuits.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
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Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Stephanie Marsh
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 Clouds:  How Do Clouds Form?  What are the Different Types of Clouds?
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This plan involves observing and labeling clouds and conducting an experiment on how clouds form.

Subject:
Atmospheric Science
Earth and Space Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Kris Hagemeyer
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Compositions: Using Chromatography to Explain Color Patterns
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In this chemistry lab experiment, students explore the properties of color using chromatography. Students will observe and compare color patterns to differentiate compositions of various colors. Students gather data on color patterns and develop new experimental questions based on their data.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Suzanne Bot
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Contour Maps: Creating Contour Maps By Surveying
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This activity is a field investigation where student create a life-sized contour map and discuss why some contour lines are different from others.

Subject:
Geography
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
John W. Wrobel
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 Density: Determined by Using Mass and Volume of a Substance
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This is an exploratory activity involving matter and density. There are many assessment pieces including a laboratory.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Heidi Luhman
Date Added:
02/10/2023
Investigating Density in Solutions: How Can You Make an Egg Float?
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This activity is an interactive demonstration of the concept of density with a guided inquiry component.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Simulation
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Claire Torrey
Date Added:
02/10/2023