| Title | Living Or Nonliving |
| Audience | Grades 7-11. Biology, Life Science, Integrated Science |
| Abstract | This is a constructivist lab activity which asks students to design and carry out experiments which will determine if samples supposedly received from space are living or nonliving.
The activity is geared to first year bio students and requires usual biology lab equipment and materials. |
| Author | Hopkins Kathryn |
| Email | AEKMHopkin@aol.com |
| Unifying Concept | Evidence, models, and explanation |
| Science and Technology | Understandings about science and technology |
| Science as Inquiry | Understandings about scientific inquiry |
| History and Nature of Science | Nature of scientific knowledge |
| Science in Personal and Social Perspectives | |
| Life, Physical, Earth Sciences | Matter, energy and organization in living systems |
| Other Standards | |