| Title | The Kingdom of Pasta |
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| Audience | Grades:8-10; Life Science, Biology, Integrated |
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| Abstract | This activity uses different kinds of uncooked pasta as the individual members of a kingdom. Students must give each individual a scientific name and then construct a dichotomous key to identify each individual. Teachers can use any number of different pasta shapes/colors to vary the difficulty of this activity. |
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| Author | Judith Allard |
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| Email | AEJAllard@aol.com |
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| Unifying Concept | Systems, order and organization |
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| Science and Technology | Understandings about science and technology |
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| Science as Inquiry | Understandings about scientific inquiry |
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| History and Nature of Science | Nature of scientific knowledge |
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| Science in Personal and Social Perspectives | |
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| Life, Physical, Earth Sciences | Structure and function in living systems, Diversity and adaptations of organisms |
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| Other Standards | |
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AEJAllard@aol.com
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