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Investigating Acids and Bases: Strong vs Weak
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This activity is an extension to standard labs that have students generate a pH curve from strong acid/strong base data. Students are asked to predict and test how the the titration end point will shift when titrating vinegar (a weak acid) with NaOH (a strong base).

Subject:
Chemistry
Science
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Air Resistance
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Students investigate air resistance using many objects. No formal lab procedure, just a few simple instructions leaves a guided-inquiry lab activity.

Subject:
Physics
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Mark Krippner
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Animals: Interdependence of Life In A Habitat
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This activity is a field investigation where students will observe, discuss, and gather evidence on how environmental changes affect animals that live in that habitat.

Subject:
Biology
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Julie Carroll
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Atmospheric Pressure with a Cup, Straw and Water
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This activity is a reinforcement lab activity where students experiment with ways to get water to flow out of a cup and up a straw causing an imbalance in the atmospheric pressure surrounding the water.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Paula Nelson
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Balance: Change vs Interaction
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This activity can be conducted in the classroom. The students are given an opportunity to discover the basic concept of balance/counterbalance and how evenly distributed weight affects an object.

Subject:
Physics
Science
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Activity/Lab
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Batteries: Building an Electrolytic Cell
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This activity is an inquiry where students will design an electrolytic cell that produces work in the form of lighting a bulb.

Subject:
Chemistry
Physics
Science
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Carolyn Fruin
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Best Amount of Water to Fly a Bottle Rocket
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This learning experience is where students launch a bottle rocket and compare how long the bottle was in the air to how much water is placed in the rocket.

Subject:
Physics
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Linda Becker
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Biodiversity in Your Schoolyard
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In this field lab students will investigate the biodiversity around their school. Students will perform a biodiversity count using transect line. The students will develop multiple hypotheses relating to biodiversity and propose additional procedures for studying, collecting and testing these questions.

Subject:
Life Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Todd Koenig
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Biological Classification: Organization of All Living Things
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Students will investigate the organization of all living things through and learn how to classify through process of classifying their own shoes. Students will complete the classification of a Jaguar and write their own pneumonic device to remember the order of biological classification. (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species)

Subject:
Biology
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Lindsey Olive
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Buoyancy: Calculating the Maxium Load of a Ship
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This lab activity allows students to apply their knowledge of Archimedes' Principle by calculating the maximum buoyant force that a ship can produce.

Subject:
Physics
Science
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Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
John Haug
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Buoyancy, Density, and Fluid Principles: Making a Mini-Submarine
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This activity is a lab where students design an experiment to construct a self-powered mini-submarine that stays underwater for at least 10 seconds, and then float back up to the top of the water level. Buoyancy and density are applied and discussed.

Subject:
Physics
Science
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
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Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Abigail Baker
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Characteristics of Enzymes and the Factors That Affect Their Function
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This classroom lab allows students to develop skills of the scientific method while exploring the characteristics of enzymes.

Subject:
Chemistry
Science
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Jen Vance
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Chemical Reactions:  Factors Which Influence the Rate of a Reaction.
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This activity is an inquiry based lab where students determine 3 ways to change the rate of the chemical reaction between hydrochloric acid and alka-seltzer.

Subject:
Chemistry
Science
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Chromatography: Selecting Variables
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This activity is a classroom investigation where students separate pigment in dyes in order to learn about mixtures and solutions. They use chromatography to design and experiment with a single variable to answer a question about which ink will separate the most - has the greatest variety of pigment.

Subject:
Chemistry
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Nancy Gerber
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Chromatography: Separating Pigments
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This activity is a lab investigation where students design an experiment to extract pigments (AKA chromatography) from different colored, water soluble markers.

Subject:
Chemistry
Science
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Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Sybil Haas
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Chromatography: Separating Pigments
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This activity is a lab investigation where students design an experiment to extract pigments (AKA chromatography) from different colored, water soluble markers.

Subject:
Chemistry
Science
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Sybil Haas
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Circuits: Building and Comparing Current Intensities of Series, Parallel, and Complex Circuits
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This activity is a indoor lab where students investigate the current differences in different circuits where students build a small house and construct different types of circuits.

Subject:
Physics
Science
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Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Stephanie Marsh
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Classification: Minnesota Vertebrates
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This activity is an interactive game that helps students learn that vertebrates are classified into five groups and that each group has common characteristics that distinguish the animal group from other respective groups.

Subject:
Biology
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Stan Mraz
Date Added:
02/24/2021
Investigating Clouds:  How Do Clouds Form?  What are the Different Types of Clouds?
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This plan involves observing and labeling clouds and conducting an experiment on how clouds form.

Subject:
Earth and Space Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College
Provider Set:
Pedagogy in Action
Author:
Kris Hagemeyer
Date Added:
02/24/2021