8th grade Halloween biology simulations

Population Ecology Lab Simulation - Modeling Population Growth

Created by

Amy Brown Science

This guided inquiry graphing activity (both printable and digital) involves the student in a study of the growth rate of a rabbit population. The student assumes the role of a scientist to determine the birth rate, mortality rate, growth rate, and total population size of the rabbit population over a 20 year period. The data is plotted on a graph where the student will clearly see the initial exponential growth of the population followed by logistic growth. The activity will reinforce the conce

Subjects:

Simulations, Independent Work Packet

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

...

NGSS:

MS-LS2-4

, MS-LS2-1

, HS-LS2-1

, HS-LS2-2

Also included in: Population Ecology Bundle

Speciation Activity: Students model Mutation, Natural Selection, and Evolution

Created by

Science of Curiosity

Students often have trouble with the concepts of Natural Selection and Evolution of a species. Where do new traits come from? Does the environment cause mutations to happen? Or does the mutation come first? How does geographic isolation lead to speciation? This is a fun, easy, low-prep activity that allows students to experience the process of evolution (speciation) due to random mutation and geographic isolation. Students get a solid understanding of where new traits come from and how changes i

Subjects:

Biology, Science

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Worksheets, Activities, Simulations

NGSS:

HS-LS4-2

, HS-LS4-1

, HS-LS4-4

, HS-LS4-5

Would You Survive The Salem Witch Trials?

Created by

Wilson Workshop

NO PREP! Students will simulate what it was like to live in Salem during the time of the Witch Trials. Perfect activity to use during Halloween, after discussing the Witch Trials or Colonial America, or after teaching the Crucible! Google Compatible and includes a Slides-based worksheet for students to follow along! PLEASE NOTE: This activity is designed to do as a whole class, so it will show outcomes for all chosen decisions.If you enjoy the witch trials be sure to check out "Would You Survive

Subjects:

Halloween, Other (Specialty), Social Studies - History

Grades:

5th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Lesson

HEREDITY Creature Features - Inherited and Environmental Traits

Created by

iTeachSTEM

Use this simple but highly engaging activity to help students make the connection between inherited traits and the similarities between parents and their offspring. Students will flip a coin to simulate the genetic traits being passed on to the offspring of two made-up “parent” creatures. File Includes: Teacher Instructions Parent Creatures Posters Student Sheets Answer Key Sample Student Work _____________________________________________________________________________ Follow me for more gre

Subjects:

Biology, Science

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

The Virtual Biodiversity Game

Created by

Darlene Tieu

Students can use this Google form to make choices that determine how many species survive or go extinct in their ecosystem. Through 5 rounds, students are exposed to concepts such as biodiversity, biomes, climate, niches, pollution, and human impact. Students make choices and can see the impact it has on biodiversity (the number of species)This interactive activity is a great introduction to biodiversity. It is a great tool to get students thinking about what contributes to increased or decrease

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Anatomy, Biology, Other (Science)

NGSS:

MS-LS2-5

, MS-LS2-1

, HS-LS4-6

, MS-ESS3-4

, MS-ESS3-3

...

Frog Paper Dissection

Created by

Biology Buff

This activity is a perfect alternative to dissection or as an elaboration or evaluation. I have taught Biology for 36 years, and have done many real dissections of many different animals, but have changed my mind on whether students need a real frog to dissect in high school. Recently, I have given this activity to my students instead of doing a real dissection, and they have fun, stay safe and don't hurt any animals! Students who were absent during a real dissection could do this activity to

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Activities, Simulations, Lesson

Ecology Lab Estimating Population Size

Created by

Amy Brown Science

Population biologists have developed several methods for sampling a population. In this lab, the student will use the sampling technique known as the "mark and recapture method" to estimate the size of a population of wild beans! Students will compare their estimation of the population size obtained from lab data to the actual population size and calculate their percent error.This lab is very easy to set up and very easy to clean up. No fancy materials are required, and yet, I find this to be

Subjects:

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

Biology, General Science, Science

Also included in: Biology Lab Bundle - Cells Mitosis Genetics DNA Dichotomous Keys Enzymes

Genetics and Heredity Lab: Celebrity Babies and Punnett Squares!

Created by

TeachingwithFree

Come let's explore the world of genetics by creating Celebrity Babies! Students will use Punnett Squares and the concepts of heredity to become genetic counselors for some of the most popular celebrity couples of today! Included in this activity is: 1. Student Lab Worksheet2. Teachers' Guide3. Baby Templates4. Celebrity Couples (w/simulated genotypes)*Updated December 2022- New Celebrity Couples! 32 Celebrity Couples! Students LOVE this activity and will definitely leave your classroom with a

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

Types:

NGSS:

HS-LS3-3

, HS-LS3-1

Halloween Science Game Teaching Biodiversity

Created by

Focus Learning Resources

The perfect game for Halloween (or any time of year)!In my classroom, this game not only produced lots of laughs, but provided an excellent illustration of biodiversity within an ecosystem that I referred back to often as an example in later class periods.This game consists of two simulations. Each student during each simulation will have a card with a monster. The teacher lurks about the room as a disease. Some monsters are immune to the disease, and some are not. If implemented well (that mean

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Biology, Forensics, Science

DNA Fingerprinting Simulated Crime Scene Activity Distance Learning

Created by

Sunrise Science

This DNA Fingerprinting Simulated Crime Scene Activity is a great way to begin your unit on the structure, function and processes of DNA in order to elicit student interest in learning about the DNA molecule! I introduce this crime scene situation on the first day of studying DNA then do a series of lessons on DNA structure and replication, all while the crime scene is set up in the classroom to keep my students engaged. The last day of the week, we do this fingerprinting activity to determine t

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Simulations, Lesson

NGSS:

HS-LS1-1

Carbon Cycle Close Reading and Lab Demo

Created by

Science Lessons That Rock

This close reading and lab demonstration works great with your volcanoes or carbon cycle units!Lake Nyos is a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa. An inactive volcano below the lake was slowly releasing carbon dioxide into the lake. As the lake overturned and and carbon dioxide was released, thousands of people and livestock in the surrounding areas suffocated and died overnight. Included in this purchase:- 2 page close reading article titled "Killer Carbon" with follow up questions. Two versions

Subjects:

Biology, Earth Sciences, Reading

Grades:

7th - 10th

Types:

Worksheets, Laboratory, Simulations

CCSS:

CCRA.R.1

, CCRA.R.2

Also included in: Science Nonfiction Article Bundle

Survival Games: An Fun, Adaptations-Based Challenge for the Evolution Unit

Created by

Bio and Phys Bouquet

Explore the theory of evolution with your students as they create a creature that can survive a changing environment!Students will select from thirty two different adaptations, all with different survival perks, in order to design an organism that can (hopefully) survive drastic environment changes. In a Dungeons-and-Dragons-esque style, each adaptation provides points in certain categories of survival. My students become quickly enthralled with the challenge of picking just the right combinatio

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, General Science

Grades:

6th - 9th

Types:

Activities, Games, Simulations

Also included in: Biology Activities & Worksheets Bundle

Halloween Escape Room - Digital & ELA Skill-Based!

Created by

Smiling in Sixth

This Halloween digital escape room is a fun way for kids to practice some key English Language Arts skills while be a completely no prep activity for you! This fun digital escape room is completed on Google Forms. Students will be a part of a group of friend’s adventure that begins when they accept a dare to go into a haunted house on Halloween night. The friends get trapped in the house by the mansion’s ghost and must solve 12 clues and complete 12 ELA skill-based challenges to move on to the n

Subjects:

English Language Arts, Halloween, Holidays/Seasonal

Grades:

5th - 8th

Types:

Games, Simulations

Genetic Drift Bug Exploration Simulation Inquiry Activity for Teaching Evolution

Created by

Science from the South

Your students can listen to you as you tell them about evolution by genetic drift. But, what if they could develop their own understanding of evolution by genetic drift by simulating the process in this Genetic Drift Bug exploration activity. This activity simulates the random change that alleles get passed on to successive generations resulting in the change in allele frequencies over time in a population. Directions are included for a student-led or teacher led experience. You choose! You can

Subjects:

Biology, Earth Sciences, Science

Grades:

8th - 11th

Types:

Activities, Printables, Simulations

NGSS:

HS-LS4-2

, HS-LS4-3

, MS-LS4-4

, MS-LS4-6

, HS-LS4-5

Also included in: Biology Curriculum Bundle Full Year of Activities & Assessments Print & Digital

Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart Reader's Theater Play

Created by

Mackowiecki Lewis

Originally published in the October 2008 issue of Scholastic's Storyworks magazine (and later reprinted in Scope, Scholastic News, and my book, Read Aloud Plays: Classic Short Stories), this newly-revised script is true to the original text but is cleverly structured to be more appropriate for middle grade and young adult audiences. It includes the original text, a comprehension worksheet, a "mock trial" activity, as well as teacher notes and a key--fourteen pages in all. Parts for 9 students, s

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Drama, Halloween

Grades:

5th - 9th

Types:

Worksheets, Scripts, Simulations

Speciation Activity: Simulate Evolution of New Species: NGSS: Distance Learning

Created by

Next Gen Sci Guy

In brief, students begin by generating questions based upon experimental results (Powerpoint Slide included). Then, they read about several types of speciation. Then, students simulate speciation within a hypothetical population of frogs, using manipulatives to create a model. Finally, students answer post-activity questions.A. NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS HEREINDCI’s: LS3.B: Variation of traits LS4: Biological Evolution: Unity and DiversityCross Cutting Concepts: Patter

Subjects:

Grades:

7th - 12th, Higher Education

Types:

Biology, Chemistry, Science

DNA Puzzle Lab: Race to Solve the Structure of DNA - NGSS: VIRTUAL FRIENDLY

Created by

Next Gen Sci Guy

Aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards, this fun lab asks students to examine the same information that scientists Watson and Crick had available in order to solve DNA's structure. Students work cooperatively, and compete to be the first to solve the double helix. I'm new to TPT, and would love feedback if you have a minute. I'm adding new content on a weekly basis, so click follow me under my store name to be the first to know.This product is part of a Unit Bundle, which offers al

Subjects:

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Biology, General Science, Science

Cellular Respiration Lab Cabbage Juice CO2 Indicator

Created by

Amy Brown Science

Cellular respiration labs can be difficult to carry out, but not this one! In this lab on cellular respiration, students will observe the gas exchange (carbon dioxide release) that occurs during the reactions of cellular respiration using a red cabbage juice indicator.Make your science class more fun and interesting by incorporating lab activities into your daily and weekly lesson plans. My students particularly love this lab because it uses red cabbage juice as an acid/base indicator to detec

Subjects:

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types:

CCSS:

RST.6-8.3

, RST.9-10.3

, RST.11-12.3

NGSS:

HS-LS1-7

Also included in: Cell Physiology MegaBundle: Cells, Mitosis, Enzymes, Photosynthesis, Respiration

Biomagnification Simulation with Skittles

Created by

MsBioArtTeacher

Biomagnification SimulationWhat will the students be doing?In this hands-on activity, students will simulate the biomagnification of a chemical (mercury or DDT) throughout a marine ecosystem. Students will then determine which organisms are most affected by the chemical. After this simulation, students will be able to define and explain biomagnification. This is a fun activity to do with your students. I used it during an evaluation and the principal loved it!What is included?4 Student Workshee

Subjects:

Activities, Games, Simulations

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Test My Genes Lab: Students Use Their Traits to Practice Punnett Squares - NGSS

Created by

Next Gen Sci Guy

In Brief: The lab proceeds as follows1. Students complete a short matching section using important genetics terms2. Students read about five different human traits (Interlacing of fingers, PTC tasting, Presence of Palmaris Longus Muscle, Hair Texture, and Color Vision)3. Students attempt to determine their genotpyes, based upon their phenotypes, and the information in the lab.4. Students perform Punnett Squares using their genotypes, in order to make predictions about future generationsA. NEXT

Subjects:

Basic Principles, Biology, Science

Grades:

7th - 12th

Types:

Anatomy, Biology, General Science

Introduction to Cells Virtual Lab Bundle

Created by

Building Brix of Science

Get over 30% off each lab with the Introduction to Cells Virtual Lab Bundle! These four interactive lab assignments will help your students understand Living vs Nonliving Things, Cell Size, Cell Types, and Cell Organelles. Students will learn:Living or Nonliving?⚗️Test their pre-existing knowledge of the Characteristics of Life⚗️Compare and Contrast Living and Nonliving Things⚗️Label Items such as Feathers, Atoms, Bacteria, and Milk as Alive or Not Alive⚗️Explain why Viruses are not Living Thing

Subjects:

Grades:

5th - 10th

Types:

Laboratory, Simulations

NGSS:

MS-LS1-2

, MS-LS1-1

, MS-PS1-1

Genetic Mutations & Variations Virtual Exploration Lab

Created by

Building Brix of Science

How do genetic mutations lead to variation in species? In this virtual exploration lab, students will learn about the different types of mutations and how these new genotypes can change an organism's phenotype. Students will also:⚗️Test their Pre-existing Knowledge of Mutations⚗️Identify the difference between Point, Insertion, & Deletion Mutations⚗️Read about Genetic Mutations and how they can be Good & Bad⚗️Describe how Changes in DNA sequence influence Protein FormationNOTE: This acti

Subjects:

Biology, General Science

Grades:

6th - 12th

Types:

Laboratory, Simulations

NGSS:

HS-LS3-1

, MS-LS3-1

, HS-LS3-2

Also included in: Virtual Science Labs Full Exploration Activity Bundle

Biochemistry {Carbohydrates Lab}

Created by

Tamra Young

This hands-on macromolecules lab is a student favorite for sure! This is a 4-page lab activity packet with steps for constructing glucose and fructose molecules using mini marshmallows and toothpicks. Students will then join their molecules in order to form sucrose. The lab contains a short introduction, procedure steps for making the molecules, pre-lab and analysis questions. Teacher tips are also included. Designed for standard level biology. Approximate time to complete lab: 35-45 min

Subjects:

Biology, Chemistry, Science

Grades:

8th - 12th

Types: