MnSTEP Activities
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Mineral Density: Teaching accuracy, slope, and percent error in the Earth science classroom part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a lab investigation in which students make mass/volume measurements of several samples of the same mineral to determine the mineral's density. Students graph their data and make the connection between their qualitative understanding of what density is and the mathematical/graphical representation of density.
Subject: Chemistry:General Chemistry:Properties of Matter, Geoscience:Geology, Mathematics
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Our Big Backyard part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students venture out into their own backyard to observe and record data on living things and see how these things change throughout the seasons.
Subject: Biology:Diversity, Mathematics
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Field Activity
Who Lives Here? : Investigating and Sorting Schoolyard Insects part of MnSTEP Activity Mini-collection
This activity is a field investigation where students collect bugs using homemade pit traps, sort them into groups, and then graph their results.
Subject: Mathematics, Biology
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Field Activity