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Today's topic: Lightning. Doing What Works - Topic. Periodic Table of Elements: Los Alamos National Laboratory. A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change. Deadly Volcanoes. AP Science Practices. AP science revisions focus on seven overarching practices that capture important aspects of the work of scientists.

AP Science Practices

Science practices describe the knowledge and skills that students should learn and demonstrate to reach a goal or complete a learning activity. Science Practice 1 The student can use representations and models to communicate scientific phenomena and solve scientific problems. Science Practice 2. Science. The Science Behind the News. Grouping Organisms. Welcome to the USGS - U.S. Geological Survey. Classification 1: Classification Scheme. Photo Credit: Science NetLinks Purpose To show students that many kinds of living things can be sorted into groups in many ways using various features to decide which things belong to which group and that classification schemes will vary with purpose.

Classification 1: Classification Scheme

Context. Classify That! Photo credit: Clipart.com Purpose To expand students’ knowledge of living organisms and further develop their ability to group, or classify, living organisms according to a variety of common features.

Classify That!

To introduce students to scientific groupings of organisms. Welcome to the USGS - U.S. Geological Survey. Watch 131 Years of Global Warming in 26 Seconds.