A. About Biology Lesson

• These lessons have been designed for prospective elementary school teachers in their junior or senior year of college; those teaching this group are encouraged to use the entire lab sequences or parts thereof in the order given.
• Practicing teachers can use and adapt entire labs or individual exercises within the lessons for their elementary classrooms.
• These laboratory exercises and related knowledge mapping exercises ask many questions to help students focus on key ideas.
• The lessons are intended to be downloaded and implemented in a laboratory or computer classroom - they are not interactive web sites.

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Part 1, Molecules and Cells

1.1 Properties of Water
1.2 Elements, Atoms and the Periodic Table
1.3 Building Molecules from Atoms
1.4 Basic Processes
1.5 Osmosis
1.6 Pattern Matching (classes of organic molecules)
1.7 Cells
1.8 Mitosis
1.9 Text-Set-Go-Round
1.10 Invitations to Learn
1.11 Role Play Expert

 

Part 2, Population Biology

2.1 How Does a Green Plant Grow?

2.2 Owl Pellets

2.3 Chaparral Community

2.4 How Do Organisms Vary?

2.5 How Do Organisms Reproduce?

2.6 How Do Flowering Plants Reproduce?

2.7 How Do Populations Grow?

2.8 How Do Populations Change Over Time?

Authors and Acknowledgements

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