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Investigating Local Plant Growth: Structures and Functions
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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
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Local Stream Discharge
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Investigating Local Stream Discharge
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This activity is a field investigation where students calculate stream discharge, develop and complete an investigation involving the stream, interpret their findings, and report to their peers.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Hydrology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Macroinvertebrates: How Clean is Our Lake?
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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:
Applied Science
Environmental Science
Life Science
Zoology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Magnetism: What are Magnets and Why Do They Attract or Repel?
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Investigating Magnetism: What are Magnets and Why Do They Attract or Repel?
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This activity is a classroom lab in which students observe and investigate how magnets interact with each other and the objects around them.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Matter: Identifying Properties and States of Matter
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Investigating Matter: Identifying Properties and States of Matter
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This activity is a classroom lab in which students investigate and observe three types of balloons to help identify the states of matter and their properties.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physical Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Metal Activity: Determining the Activity Series of Metals
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Investigating Metal Activity: Determining the Activity Series of Metals
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This activity is a guided inquiry laboratory in which students perform reactions involving metals and hydrochloric acid in order to determine their activity series.

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:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Microbes in a Nature Center
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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
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Minnesota Rocks: The Properties of North Shore Rocks
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Investigating Minnesota Rocks: The Properties of North Shore Rocks
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This activity is a guided inquiry where students develop questions around a group of rocks, use their observation skills to describe the attributes, record and analyze their findings, and use their data, in conjunction with available resources, to categorize the rocks .

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Geology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Moon Phases: Making a lunar flipbook
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Investigating Moon Phases: Making a lunar flipbook
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This activity is a reinforcement activity where students will make a flipbook of the lunar phases.

Subject:
Astronomy
Earth and Space Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Motion: Calculating and Graphing Students Walking Speed
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Investigating Motion: Calculating and Graphing Students Walking Speed
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This activity is a field investigation where students gather data on their motion and how it compares to another person.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Motion - Graphing Speed
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Investigating Motion - Graphing Speed
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This introduction to motion activity has students exploring speed and acceleration using a wheeled office chair and rope to pull a student a given distance and record the time. The results are graphed and different outcomes are predicted when variables are changed.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Motion: Paths of a Marble
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Investigating Motion: Paths of a Marble
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This inquiry based activity will help students discover that marbles move in a variety of ways and the path in which it starts to move can be changed.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Motion: Understanding Frame of Reference
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Investigating Motion: Understanding Frame of Reference
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In this lab activity, students observe and describe motion from different frames of reference and measure the time for the motion. They analyze their findings and develop a working definition of "frame of reference".

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Motion: What Causes Objects to Move?
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Investigating Motion: What Causes Objects to Move?
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This activity is a structured inquiry into why objects move and why some objects move farther than others. Students will make predictions on how far an object will move when blown on, blow on the objects, measure the distances they moved and record their findings.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Motion With Marbles
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Investigating Motion With Marbles
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Through the use of marbles, this investigative experiment gives students the opportunity to learn about motion.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Motors and Magnetism
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Investigating Motors and Magnetism
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This activity is an activity where students build a motor, learn motor operation and theory, interpret their understanding through troubleshooting, and develop a new, experimental question related to the motor. One follow-up activity would be coupling their motor to a fan blade or other axle to convert electrical energy to magnetic energy into mechanical motion for real world application.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Movement of Tops
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Investigating Movement of Tops
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This is a guided inquiry lesson using tops to teach the students how to raise questions and seek answers by making careful observations. They will note what happens when they explore the tops and then share their results with others.

Subject:
Physical Science
Physics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/12/2023
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Investigating Natural Selection: Observing Stabilizing and Directional Selection Through Graphical Analysis of Population Samples
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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
Assessment
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
04/08/2023
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