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Testing for Life's Molecules
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In this activity, learners conduct tests for proteins, glucose, and starch.

Bird Beak Buffet
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In this classic activity, learners investigate natural selection by becoming birds foraging for food on an island.

DNA Fingerprinting
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In this forensics activity, learners solve a mystery using “DNA” taken from the scene of the crime.

Slimy Cells
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In this activity, learners solidify their conceptualization of cells by building a model of a cell in a ziplock bag.

Is It Alive?
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What does it mean to be alive? Is a cactus alive? Is a seed alive? Is the air we breathe alive? What are the necessary characteristics?

Human Traits
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In this activity, learners investigate variations in human traits. This allows learners' natural curiosity about their identity to draw them into the study of heredity.

Making Babies
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This activity is designed to introduce learners to genes, genotypes and simple inheritance patterns.

Protein Factory
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In this activity, learners take on the role of various parts of the cell in order to model the process of protein synthesis.