Master Teacher lessons
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Wave properties need to be visible to students to promote understanding. Use tuning forks, rope springs, and slinkies to model waves and their properties!
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Students review characteristic properties of model using a fun vocabulary strategy and create a graphic representation of electromagnetic waves and their uses.
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Ideas about how things are classified prompt questions about relationships.
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Patterns reveal evolutionary relationships
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What causes day and night? Students collect data, construct line graphs, and analyze patterns in natural phenomena to construct claims supported by evidence.
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Cladograms are much more than pretty pictures. They can be used to answer questions such as, "What did a T-Rex taste like?"
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Students get to experience radiation using dry ice and a cloud chamber.
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Students take control of their own learning.
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Documenting similarities and differences between species is fundamental to understanding their biological and evolutionary relationships.
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Students work through the steps of the scientific method to set up and control variables in three experiments. They will collect evidence through these experiments to support their claim that plants get their energy from the sun, water, soil, or air.
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Students investigate changes in matter by watching ice change to water, water change to steam, and steam condense back into water.
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Living things in an ecosystem rely on a web of interdependence. These relationships can take on many forms.
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Students explore predator and prey relationships in ecosystems.
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Models can be helpful to describe patterns in natural processes.
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Mendel’s laws of inheritance do not account for the expression of all traits.
