NOTICE:The Science Core Experiments are the work of Utah science teachers. These activities were developed under the direction of five district consortiums. They are sets of Experiments and Inquiries that provide instructional activities aligned to the Science Core Curriculum. They are currently in DRAFT form. We encourage you to review these activities and provide comment. The critieria for evaluation is included in the evaluation link below. Feel free to fill this form out and send it in to Velma Itamura, Utah State Office of Education, 250 East 500 South, Salt Lake City, UT 84111.

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Biology Inquiry Activities

1. Mitosis --3520-0301: Compare and contrast types of cellular reproduction.

2. What's Wrong Here?--3520-0402: Describe how mutations affect genes and genetic expression.

3. What Can You Find in A Cell?--3520-0201: Investigate structure and function of cells.

4. What is the Advantage of Being Different?--3520-0503: Relate biodiversity to extinction.

5. Creature Categories--3520-0501: Classify organisms using a key.

6. My What Big Teeth You Have--3520-050: Classify organisms using a key or 702: Analyze ecosystems in realtion to matter cycles and energy flow.

Biology Core Experiments

1. The Heredity and the Sense of Taste--3520-0302: Explain the significance of DNA replication relative to heredity.

2. Where Will Brine Shrimp Eggs Hatch?--3520-0102: Investigate and explain the relation of water to organisms or 0801: Predict how changes in one part of an ecosystem affect the system.

3. Why Do They Spray Produce in the Super
market?--3520-0202: Explain how a cell functions as a system.

4. Modeling the Geologic Time line and the Development of Life on Earth--3520-0601: Investigate evidence for evolution in the fossil record, geologic timeline, and living organisms.

5. Biogas Generator--3520-0802: Analyze the effects of human activities on matter cycles and energy flow.

6. What's Going on There?--3520-0801: Predict how changes in one part of an ecosystem affect the system.