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This lesson plan may provide ways to incorporate movement/exercise in your everyday life.

 

Source: http://annex.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/activities/classroom/characteristics/ca_characteristics.php (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

In this activity, students learn to recognize and describe the characteristics of living organisms. Students view several different short videos and complete a worksheet identifying the characteristics of life observed in each video.

In the microscope imaging station (see link in the Example Web Site above), you will introduce students to unique life science activities that let them work with research-quality microscopic images and videos. In the Flipbooks section, you can use printable images from the time-lapse movies to make flipbooks (handheld animations that students can make at home).

Source: Breakup of Pangaea (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

In this activity, students explore the Continental Divide: The Breakup of Pangaea through an interactive addressing the Continental Puzzle, Fossils, More Fossils, Tilite, and the Andean Mountains. Students work in groups and then report their findings to the class. This activity is best used to enhance classroom instruction and allows students to see how the continents were formed and what led scientists to realize this.

This site is part of the Exploratorium Museum. There are hands-on activities, articles, videos and, all about the earth. Here are some of the materials available: seismic slinky, people of the Arctic, Tundra and Permafrost, Continental Divide, and Greenhouse Gases.

Source: http://annex.exploratorium.edu/imaging_station/activities/flipbooks/flipbooks_mitosis.php (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

In this activity, students use printable images from a time-lapse movie to make flipbooks—handheld animations. This series of images depicts the process of mitosis in the early embryo of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. In this stage of Drosophila development, the nuclei divide very rapidly without cell division, and the divisions are synchronized. The mitosis shown took about 10 minutes from start to finish.

 

 

Source: Genetics (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

Students explore why siblings are similar but not identical by investigating how genes and environmental factors influence human traits. Through observations, discussions, and model-building activities, students develop and revise explanations for genetic variation within families.