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Communication in Space icon
Communication in Space

Resource ID: TXLSR14.057
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students will work in cooperative groups to create an accurate arrangement of mirrors that work together to relay a laser beam from a Mars space station to Earth’s Mission Control, which will model utilizing satellites in space for communication, an accommodation necessary for manned space exploration.

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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells

Resource ID: TXLSR14.049
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will categorize cells as prokaryotic or eukaryotic by identifying the presence or lack of a nucleus.

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Lights, Camera, Action!

Resource ID: TXLSR7.004
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students compare and contrast potential and kinetic energy by creating a real-world model through a movie.

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Does it have Potential?

Resource ID: TXLSR13.048
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will work with partners to investigate how mass, potential energy, and kinetic energy act on objects dropped from varying heights.

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Got Force?

Resource ID: TXLSR11.023B
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students use various surfaces and a weighted car to see how far the car will travel using balanced and unbalanced forces.

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Building a Watershed

Resource ID: TXLS122
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students will model the effects of human activity on watersheds.

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Stages of Ecological Succession

Resource ID: TXLSR20.022
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students will collaborate on a electronic slideshow presentation and observe, record, and describe the role of ecological succession including both primary and secondary succession.

 

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Demonstration and Analysis of Dihybrid Crosses

Resource ID: TXLSR10.005
Grade Range: 10
Subject: Science

The students will review related vocabulary, watch the teacher model a dihybrid cross, and then perform a dihybrid cross and answer questions about the outcomes with a partner.

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What's going on with our plates?

Resource ID: TXLS232
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

The students will work collaboratively in small, ability-based groups in stations that will require them to use their academic vocabulary, academic language, and self-assessment to generate a product showing what they have learned.

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Let's FIND Speed!

Resource ID: TXLSR5.004
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

This research lesson requires students to distinguish between speed, distance, and time. Students will use formulas to calculate the three using a checklist. Students will also create their own speed, distance, or  time word problem using the knowledge gained in this lesson.

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Escaping the Nucleus

Resource ID: TXLS216
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students will work in groups to complete an escape room challenge that replicates the process of gene expression.

 

 

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Biodiversity

Resource ID: TXLS243
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students will explore biodiversity concepts through several activities including a video, a card sort, think-pair-shares, food webs, and four corners.

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Biotic and Abiotic Factors of an Ecosystem

Resource ID: TXLS252
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will explore abiotic and biotic factors in various ecosystems by working through stations. Students will be able to identify and describe abiotic and biotic factors within an ecosystem.

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Motion Pictures

Resource ID: TXLS028
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the concept of motion representation using distance vs. time graphs. Students will recognize labeling of axes, steepness related to speed, horizontal lines as non-motion, and downward slope as return to origin.

 

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Earth: A Tilted Affair

Resource ID: TXLS059
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

After a brief review of direct and indirect sunlight, students will arrange heat maps and globes around a drawing of the Sun based on the tilt of Earth and how it affects Earth’s temperature.

 

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Modeling the Path of Digestion

Resource ID: TXLS139
Grade Range: 7
Subject: Science

Students model the path of digestion using household items.

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Push Back, Pull Forward

Resource ID: TXLS118
Grade Range: 3
Subject: Science

Students will conduct an experiment to demonstrate force such as pushes and pulls.

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Gravity in Space

Resource ID: TXLSR7.005
Grade Range: 6
Subject: Science

Students will participate in stations that reinforce their understanding of gravity, especially gravity in space.

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Stoichiometry

Resource ID: TXLS197
Grade Range: 10
Subject: Science

Students will model real-world formulas and chemical reactions to investigate the meaning of limiting reactants.

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