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11th grade close reading laboratories
The Salt Babies
These lessons are aligned and keyed to NGSS (NYSSLS). In this package, students are presented with a recent newspaper article discussing the mysterious deaths of 7 babies in a span of 3 days in March 1962 at a hospital in Binghamton, NY. Students will propose questions and then sift through evidence from primary source documents (newspaper articles from the 1960s) to generate a valid claim as to why they think the babies tragically died in those 3 days (I omitted the 'answer' from the excerpts
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9th - 11th
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Vision Quest-Evolution, Genetics, Ecology, Human Impacts, Systems Interactions
This lesson is aligned to NGSS (NYSSLS) with standards listed on the first two pages. This activity is based on a Reader's Digest article which is great for the context/ human emotional experience, but can be completed without the article. The article talks about a family where both parents were unknown carriers of a mutation that leads to blindness by adulthood. 3/4 of the kids inherited the genes to have the disease and their parents decided to take them on a trip around the world for a yea
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9th - 11th
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We are never, ever, ever getting back together! Cell Division Lab
This Lab is aligned and keyed to NGSS (NYSSLYS) with standards on the first page. In this Lab, students will review the concepts associated with cell division (mitosis) including the role of the protein synthesis in creating the proteins that control and regulate the cell cycle, the basic parts of interphase (focusing on DNA replication, regulation of the cell cycle (p53, DNA repair enzymes) and implications when mutations change the regulator proteins (cancer), purpose for cell division (growt
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9th - 11th
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Reading a Recipe (It's a trick :)
Tired of your students not reading their recipes for lab? This helps to teach them a lesson in how important it is to read before they start. If they don't read the directions, they will do a little extra work, which never killed anyone before.Spoiler: In the directions, they only have to answer questions two and nine, but they'll probably answer them all! bwahahaha!
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7th - 12th
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Understanding Our Town: Theatre Design Project
This assignment has been so fun to use in my literature and drama classes! Students love it.
After reading _Our Town_, students take on the role of a theatre artist--either a costume designer, scenic designer, actor, or dramaturg. They then work toward an artistic project that helps them access and understand the play.
All of the students-as-theatrical-artists must rely on the script, the Director's Concept (included), and high quality external research. After doing research, using both the p
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9th - 12th
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