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Students will dissect a pink jasmine flower to review structure and function of plant reproduction parts. Included is a student handout that organizes student dissection as well as has an alternative virtual dissection website for those allergic to pollen. Students further demonstrate their understanding by creating similes for each structure and function of each flower part. Included are teaching tips and dissection tips gathered from 15 years of teaching experience. When my principal evalu

Anticipation set demonstration where three student volunteers dress up in costume to reinforce, apply, and visually understand & distinguish between the scientific terms such as genotype, phenotype, allele, gene, inherited trait, dominant trait and recessive trait. This assignment is the student data table worksheet to follow the demonstration of inheriting traits from mom and dad to the super hero child. Super Hero Genetics PowerPoint which is not included here has the signs "mom" and "dad" we

This is a generalized but organized format in which students can apply various experiments and visually distinguish the steps of the scientific method. This activity worksheet also includes teaching tips for conducting one simple and cheap experiment involving ladybugs. Don't worry, I give tips to preserve all ladybugs' lives and students usually take them home.