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Directions: Go to Explore learning and Launch the Growing Plants Gizmo. Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and prompts in the orange boxes. Vocabulary: compost, fertilizer, mass, seed, soil, variable Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. What do you think plants need to grow and stay healthy? Plants need light, water, nutrients, air, and space to grow and stay healthy. 2. Soil is a combination of tiny rock fragments and...

Directions: Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and prompts in the orange boxes. Vocabulary : controlled experiment, germination, hypothesis, seed, sprout, variable Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo .) 1. What do you think is needed for a seed grow into a sprout ? This is called germination . 2. In the Gizmo you can test water, light, and heat. Which factors do you think will affect seed germination? Gizmo Warm-up: 100% Ge...

Vocabulary: denominator, equivalent, fraction, greater than, less than, numerator Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) [Note: The purpose of these questions is to activate prior knowledge and get students thinking. Students are not expected to know the answers to the Prior Knowledge Questions.] 1. You are setting up water stations for a one-mile road race. You need four evenly spaced stations, including one at the end. Mark the locations of the water stations below. ...

Student Exploration: Feed the Monkey (Projectile Motion) Vocabulary: acceleration, free fall, trajectory, vector, velocity Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) Eccentric billionaire Veda Hussert has invented a “banana cannon” to help feed the monkeys on her personal wildlife preserve. To feed a monkey high in the trees, simply aim the cannon at the monkey and fire a banana! Unfortunately, the noise of the cannon frightens the monkeys, and they drop out of the tr...

Student Exploration: Evolution: Mutation and Selection Vocabulary: adaptation, allele, chromosome, evolution, fitness, gene, genotype, mutation, natural selection, phenotype, trait Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. Imagine a white lizard and a brown lizard sitting on a brown rock. A hawk is circling overhead hunting for its next meal. Which lizard do you think the hawk would most likely try to catch? Explain your choice. The hawk would most likely try to catc...

Vocabulary: absorption, amino acid, carbohydrate, chemical digestion, chyme, complex carbohydrate, digestion, digestive system, elimination, enzyme, fat, fatty acid, fiber, food calorie, mechanical digestion, monoglyceride, nutrient, peristalsis, protein, starch, sugar, villus Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. Why do we need to eat food? Food provides us with over 40 substances that it cannot product on its own, therefore we must eat food to get those 40 substa...

Directions: Follow the instructions to go through the simulation. Respond to the questions and prompts in the orange boxes. Vocabulary : absolute zero, controlled experiment, diffusion, dynamic equilibrium, Kelvin scale, kinetic energy Prior Knowledge Question (Do this BEFORE using the Gizmo .) Have you ever smelled microwave popcorn? The oddly enticing scent can fill a whole house. How do you think the smell of popcorn spreads through the air? Gizmo Warm-up Smells are carried by tiny par...

Student Exploration: Coastal Winds and Clouds Vocabulary: condensation, convection, convection current, land breeze, sea breeze Condensation: change from a gas to a liquid Convection: Transfer of heat through movement of a fluid. Convection Current: the circular motion of a fluid (such as air) in which hot material rises while cold material sinks. Land breeze: A wind that blows from the land to the sea. Sea breeze: A wind that blows from the sea to the land. Prior Knowledge Questions (Do...

Student Exploration: Chicken Genetics Vocabulary: allele, codominance, dominant, genotype, heterozygous, homozygous, phenotype, probability, Punnett square, recessive, trial Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) 1. The image shows a flower that was produced by crossing a pure red flower with a pure white flower. Which do you think is the dominant petal color: red or white? Explain. _____________________________________________ ______________________________________...

Student Exploration: Calorimetry Lab Vocabulary : calorie, calorimeter, joule, specific heat capacity Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo .) 1. The La tin word calor means “hea t,” and m eter comes from the Greek word meaning “to measure.” What do you think a calorimeter does? Measures heat. 2. Where have you heard the word calorie before? What do you think a calorie is? With food, the amount of energy it takes to heat up one ml of water. Gizmo Warm-up A ca...