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Biology Common Core CCRA.SL.6 activities
Biomimicry NGSS STEM Project Distance Learning Life Science Adaptations LS4
NEWLY UPDATED PDFs for digital learning! This EXCITING and RELEVANT NGSS middle school STEM activity/project challenges students to explore the benefits of adaptations (MS-LS4) and then engineer a product (MS-ETS1 and MS-ETS1-4) for human use, called Biomimicry, in a fun and authentic way! In groups, students brainstorm a real world problem, investigate an adaptation and its benefit in the organism’s habitat, and individually design a "biomimetic" product to solve the problem. (Example: Grip sho
Subjects:
Grades:
4th - 9th
Types:
NGSS:
MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
Also included in: NGSS Middle School Science Activities and Lessons Growing MEGA Bundle
Preschool Farm Animal Crafts - Kindergarten PIG SHEEP COW & CHICKEN Activities
These farm animals crafts, worksheets, posters, and emergent readers are perfect for introducing pigs, cows, chickens, and sheep farm animals to your preschool and kindergarten students! Your students will LOVE learning about pigs, chickens, cows, and sheep using this farm animals crafts activities BUNDLE.You will be able to use this nonfiction farm theme reading and science bundle to give your kids hands-on activities to learn about farms, farmers, cows, sheep, and chickens. This farm animal bu
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - K
Nature vs Nurture Discussion - Inheritance - Grade 6-8 MYP Middle School Science
Get your middle school science class talking with this biology discussion activity on nature versus nurture, recommended for grade 6-8 students learning about genetics and inheritance! Designed with MYP in mind but appropriate for any middle school, high school, international, or homeschool STEM curriculum.Students explore 5 hypothetical scenarios while applying their knowledge of genes and heredity. To what extent are our traits inherited (innate) or learned (environmental)? With strong social
Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS3-1
, MS-LS3-2
, MS-LS4-5
Also included in: Full Year Debate Discussion Bundle - Grade 6-8 MYP Middle School Science
Henrietta Lacks- an "Interrupted" Case Study using the Radiolab Podcast
This podcast is the extraordinary story of Henrietta Lacks. Though she died of cervical cancer in 1951, she unknowingly held the key to unlocking medical advancements (from polio vaccines to chemotherapy drugs) in her tumor cells. After taking a biopsy of Henrietta's cervical cancer, researcher Dr. George Gey discovered that Henrietta's cells could not only reproduce, but THRIVE outside the body--a breakthrough that would change modern medicine. Later, it was found that Henrietta's cells were ev
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Types:
CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-LS3-1
Exploring Nature: STEM / STEAM Outdoor Investigation - What it Takes To Survive
Your kids will explore structures and their functions as they take a close look at plants and animals that are found right outside their home or school. They'll learn from a very young girl in Ecuador how, like her, they can be real citizen-scientists in their communities. They will plan and investigate, hands-on, what is needed for a seed to sprout and grow. In the process they will naturally apply math and measurement, learn to isolate and test variables, and analyze and interpret their own da
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 5th
Types:
NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
, K-ESS2-1
, 2-LS4-1
, K-ESS2-2
, K-LS1-1
...
2nd-Grade Spring Flowers Daffodils Reading Lesson RI.2.2 Main Topic & Key Detail
Are you looking to captivate your students' imaginations and deepen their learning experiences? Get students engaged this spring while learning all about the popular perennial flowers, daffodils. When reading a nonfiction text, it's important to know what it's all about. This spring flowers daffodils nonfiction reading text for RI.2.2 main topic & key details 2nd-grade lesson has just what you need. Learn all about identifying the main topic and supporting details while also reading about da
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd
Types:
NGSS:
2-LS2-1
, 2-LS2-2
Spring Rose Flower Nonfiction Text RI.2.2 Main Topic Key Detail Lesson 2nd Grade
Are you looking to captivate your students' imaginations and deepen their learning experiences? This rose-themed teaching resource is the perfect solution! When reading a nonfiction text, it's important to know what it's all about. This spring rose flower nonfiction text RI.2.2 main topic & key details lesson for 2nd grade has just what you need. Learn all about identifying the main topic and supporting details while also reading about roses. Designed to engage 2nd-grade elementary students,
Subjects:
Grades:
2nd
Types:
NGSS:
2-LS2-1
, 2-LS2-2
Healthy Diet Debate - Food and Nutrition - Grade 7-9 MYP Middle School Science
Get your middle school science class talking with this biology discussion activity on healthy diets, recommended for grade 7-9 students learning about food and nutrition! Designed with MYP in mind but appropriate for any middle school, high school, international, or homeschool STEM curriculum.Students take on one of 5 character roles to discuss the benefits and problems associated with various diets. In the process, they must consider balanced diets, food groups, and how health and nutrition req
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Also included in: Full Year Debate Discussion Bundle - Grade 7-9 MYP Middle School Science
Phones in School Debate - Communication - Grade 7-9 MYP Middle School Science
Get your middle school science class talking with this biology / physics / social studies discussion activity on cell phones in school, recommended for grade 7-9 students learning about communication! Designed with MYP in mind but appropriate for any middle school, high school, international, or homeschool STEM curriculum.Students take on one of 5 character roles to discuss the costs and benefits of using devices in the classroom. In the process, they will discuss mental health, the use of techn
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Also included in: Full Year Debate Discussion Bundle - Grade 7-9 MYP Middle School Science
Enhancement Debate - Human Senses - Grade 6-8 MYP Middle School Science
Get your middle school science class talking with this biology discussion activity on sensory enhancement and augmentation, recommended for grade 6-8 students learning about human senses! Designed with MYP in mind but appropriate for any middle school, high school, international, or homeschool STEM curriculum.Students take on one of 5 character roles to discuss the benefits and risks of sensory enhancement technologies. In the process, they must consider scientific discoveries, sensory disorders
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 8th
NGSS:
MS-LS4-5
Also included in: Full Year Debate Discussion Bundle - Grade 6-8 MYP Middle School Science
Artificial Life Debate - Organization of Life - 8-10 MYP Middle School Science
Get your middle school science class talking with this biology discussion activity on creating artificial life, recommended for grade 8-10 students learning about characteristics of living things! Designed with MYP in mind but appropriate for any middle school, high school, international, or homeschool STEM curriculum.Students take on one of 5 character roles to discuss the benefits and risks associated with creating synthetic organisms. In the process, they will discuss the characteristics of l
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 10th
NGSS:
HS-LS3-1
, HS-ETS1-3
Drug Legalization Debate - Body Systems - Grade 7-9 MYP Middle School Science
Get your middle school science class talking with this biology / social studies discussion activity on drug legalization, recommended for grade 7-9 students learning about body systems! Designed with MYP in mind but appropriate for any middle school, high school, international, or homeschool STEM curriculum.Students take on one of 5 character roles to discuss the pros and cons of legalizing various substances. In the process, they will discuss addiction, drug effects, law enforcement, and public
Subjects:
Grades:
7th - 9th
Also included in: Full Year Debate Discussion Bundle - Grade 7-9 MYP Middle School Science
Animal Classification Picture Sort
This fun and colorful picture sort is ideal for teaching students about animal classifications and groups! This can be used in a center, for small groups, whole class, or independently! Students are asked to sort animal picture cards into the following categories: mammals, birds, fish, insects, and reptiles/amphibians. Can be modified for younger grades (sorting, matching, grouping) and be used in upper grades (classifications, animal groupings, similar characteristics). Freebies & Discounts
Extraterrestrial Life Debate - Characteristics of Living Things - MYP Science
Get your middle school science class talking with this biology / earth and space science discussion activity on extraterrestrial life, recommended for grade 5-7 students learning about the characteristics of life! Designed with MYP in mind but appropriate for any middle school, high school, international, or homeschool STEM curriculum.Students take on one of 5 character roles to discuss the possibility that alien life exists in our universe. In the process, they will explore the characteristics
Grades:
5th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-LS4-1
Also included in: Full Year Debate Discussion Bundle - Grade 5-7 MYP Middle School Science
Eating Meat Debate - Ecology - Grade 5-7 MYP Middle School Science
Get your middle school science class talking with this biology / environmental science discussion activity on eating meat, recommended for grade 5-7 students learning about ecology! Designed with MYP in mind but appropriate for any middle school, high school, international, or homeschool STEM curriculum.Students take on one of 5 character roles to discuss whether a plant-based or meat-based diet is better for humans and the environment. In the process, they will explore ancestral diets, animal w
Grades:
5th - 7th
NGSS:
MS-ESS3-1
, MS-LS2-5
, MS-LS2-1
, MS-ESS3-4
Also included in: Full Year Debate Discussion Bundle - Grade 5-7 MYP Middle School Science
1-LS3-1: Frog Life Cycle-Benchmark ELD Unit 3 "The Amazing Life Cylce of a Frog"
I will be adding on as I enhance my teaching with this unit! I use Benchmark ELD from Benchmark Adelante for first grade. These documents focus on ELD strategies! Yay! These documents are what I use to go along with the text "The Amazing Life Cycle of a Frog".
Included:
-Sequence cards: large and mini
-Transitional phrases cards and sentences
-Bubble map
-Flow chart
-Life cycle images for students
-Designated sentence patterning chart for Emerging and Expanding levels
-Blank flow chart for Brid
Subjects:
Grades:
1st
Types:
Potatoes on Mars
This is a culminating project that I use for my unit on Metabolism. It is based on the book/movie, “The Martian” and utilizes the science from the book to have students determine if they would be able to survive on Mars just like the character Mark Watney does. Once students see the problem solving involved in this process, they are tasked with creating a proposal for NASA about the single best crop they should take to begin a colony on Mars. This project asks students to work collaboratively,
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 11th
NGSS:
HS-LS1-5
, HS-LS1-7
, HS-ESS3-3
, HS-ESS3-2
, HS-LS1-2
...
Ecology Vocab Chart - ELL - Just Add Pictures!
Vocabulary Chart! ELL and SEI ready - Just add Pictures! Use this Vocabulary Chart so many ways throughout a lesson or module: * Gallery Walk * Expert Testimony * "I have... who has...?" * Card Sort * Doodle Pairs * Check Yourself * Bench Battle * Glossary * Consistent Graphics * Illustrated Text * Word Wall *See my SEI Vocab Chart Implementation Guide for more!(Pro Tip: I love using search terms that start with "image icon ___" to find the clearest graphics for my vocabulary charts!)
Subjects:
Grades:
8th - 12th, Adult Education
CCSS:
NGSS:
HS-LS2-5
, HS-LS2-1
, HS-LS2-6
Also included in: SEI Ecology Vocab Chart + Chart Utilization Guide
What's THAT for? - Traits & Survival - STEM / STEAM Lesson 11
In this wonder-filled lesson students observe more closely one plant or animal they find right outside. They use a writing and drawing Nature Journal activity to develop several questions about some of the physical traits and how they might help those plants and animals survive and thrive there. After the gorgeous photos in the presentation, they’ll be inspired to get out and take a closer look at their own common, and commonly-overlooked, backyard wildlife and then do some of their own researc
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 5th
NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-LS1-1
, 2-LS2-2
Food Heroes, Save Our World! (Quest 3)
In the final stage of becoming a Food Hero, children use all of their knowledge and skills learned in Quests 1 & Quest 2 and apply it to the big picture looking at how our personal choices not only affect our bodies but the entire planet. Through the lens of science and art they learn about ecosystems, food chains and sustainability so they leave the last challenge as Food Heroes themselves ready to save the world!
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
, K-ESS2-2
Strengthen Our Food Heroes' Team (Quest 2)
The second stage of becoming a Food Hero! This Quest consists of 11 classes to be taught over the course of one year or condensed to a single semester! In this Quest children begin to strengthen their powers together to win over Sara the Sugar Sorceresses. At the end of this Quest children will have learned how to eat hygienically and exercise. They will practice mindfulness, learn about other cultures and learn to stay away from sneaky sugar.
Subjects:
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Types:
NGSS:
K-ESS3-1
No Prep! Outdoor Exploration Activities and Games
All you need are the enclosed directions for the chosen game(s), and any propsNo Prep, Print and Go Activities!********************************************************************** Many lesson plans offered by Homeschooling and Homesteading include active outdoor games and activity ideas. This is a sampling of those activities as a freebie. The activities allow your students to explore nature in active and creative ways.Some related collection of games:Sharpening Observation SkillsPredator and
Subjects:
Grades:
1st - 4th
NGSS:
K-LS1-1
1-LS3-1: Apple Life Cycle-Benchmark ELD Unit 3 "An Apple Grows"
I will be adding on as I enhance my teaching with this unit! I use Benchmark ELD from Benchmark Adelante for first grade. These documents focus on ELD strategies! Yay! These documents are what I use to go along with the text "An Apple Grows".
Included:
-Sequence cards: large and mini
-Transitional phrases cards and sentences
-Bubble map
-Flow chart
-Life cycle images for students
-Designated sentence patterning chart for Emerging and Expanding levels
-Blank flow chart for Bridging level
Subjects:
Grades:
1st
Types:
Cells Unit Vocabulary List & Activities
This packet will help your student prepare for the Cells unit in science. It includes:1. Cells unit vocabulary list with -definitions -images -translations in Korean & Chinese2. Vocabulary activities that are engaging -Battleship -You Hear You Say -Draw, Describe, & Dramatize
Subjects:
Grades:
6th - 9th
NGSS:
MS-LS1-2
, MS-LS1-1
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