Worksheets and Lessons

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Lesson Plans

Feel free to change or alter any of these. You may need to proofread, my worksheets are used with the student textbook and may contain page number references to those texts.
These are NOT complete "lesson plans". You won't find the "objectives" and other miscellaneous stuff on them, they are simply worksheets, most are self explanatory.
Answer keys are not provided because I use this site and some of the worksheets in my class, so I can't give the answers or my students will have access to them also.

Ecology

Random Sampling - How to estimate population size, using the sampling technique
Oil Spill -- Lab on the effects of oil on eggs and feathers
Food Web -- Students identify consumers and producers
Biodiversity of Ponds -students investigate the organisms found in pond water
Predator-Prey Simulation -- Uses cards to simulate predator and prey numbers, students collect data and graph
Environmental Action Simulation - play roles to determine how money should be spent
Estimating Population Size - simulation of mark-recapture techniques
Owl Pellet Lab - analyze the contents of an owl pellet
Graphing Human Population
The Lesson of the Kaibab - explores the population of deer, graphing and analysis
Deer: Predation or Starvation - another graphing exercise that compares predator and prey populations on an island
Food for Thought - a little simulation that illustrates how resources are divided among the major regions of the world
Comparing Ecosystems - students use the web to research biomes and ecosystems, create venn diagrams in pairs and in groups (advanced)
Demography - using information on tombstones to analyze population trends (advanced)
Interpreting Ecological Data - analyze graphs on ecology topics (carrying capacity, exponential growth)
Examining Stages in Ecological Succession

Anatomy

Fetal Pig Dissection
--External Anatomy
--Abdominal and Thoracic Cavity
--Arterial System and Heart

Pig Dissection Review - list of resources for reviewing the dissection of the fetal pig.

Frog dissection
Frog External (mouth and head)
Study and Removal of the Frog's Brain
Frog Urogenital System (male & female)
Frog Dissection Alternative - webquest like project
Frog Dissection Review - web based, reviews parts of the frog, and has a quiz

Bullfrog Dissection (advanced)
Rat Dissection (advanced)

Crayfish Dissection
Crayfish External Anatomy

Earthworm Dissection
Squid Dissection

Elephant Anatomy Sheet
Snake Anatomy Sheet

Kidney Coloring Worksheet (advanced)

Scientific Method

Controls and Variables -- Simple worksheet where students read experiments and determine what is the control and variable
Microscope E Lab -- Lab on the use of the microscope
Observation -- Students describe strange objects and mixtures
Pendulum Experiment - Using the scientific method
The Elephant Poem - and old poem illustrates the importance of observation
Scientific Method Applied - read stories about medical advancements, how the sci. method works
Penny Lab - Use the scientific method to find out how many drops of water will fit on a penny
Carbondioxide - Use an indicator to design an experiment to test the carbon dioxide output of a person
The Martian and the Car - argue whether a car is a life form
Lab Safety - illustration shows good and bad lab procedures
Lab Report Template
Language of Science
Making Slime - students must figure out given materials how to make a polymer
Lung Capacity Lab

Using Dichotomous Keys -uses imaginary creatures and a simple key for students to identify them by species
Taxonomy Project - classify and create dichotomous keys
Taxonomy - Interpreting Graphics
Pamishan Creatures - using dichotomous keys
AlienTaxonomy - students classify and name aliens based on pictures.
Fingerprint Classification - organize and group pictures of fingerprints

Plants

Investigating Leaf Stomata - Lab where leaf impressions are looked at under a microscope
Where does a plant get its food? - lab to disprove that soil is consumed as the plant's diet
Help Wanted - analogy that compares jobs to plant part functions
Seed Germination Experiments

Flower Parts Coloring
Transpiration Lab - an open-ended lab where students discover what properties of leaves affect water loss
Virtual Lab: Light Intensity, Wavelength, & Photosynthesis

Waterweed Simulator

Lab: Elodea and Rate of Photosynthesis
Lab: Elodea and CO2 Release

Lab - Plant Hormone Investigation
Lab - Germination Inhibitors

Chemiosmosis Coloring -advanced

Evolution

Natural Selection Activity - students model natural selection
PBS Video Guide - students watch video clips and answer questions
Evolution Discussion Panel - Students review articles about evolution and education and partipate in a discussion
Fossil Study - paper and pencil lab, students arrange "fossils" in lineage based on morphology and age
Peppered Moth - use paper moths and colored backgrounds to show how prey populations are effected by environment

Homology and Analogy - learn how to spot these (web)
Evolution Life Has a History - examining the fossil record (web)
Becoming Human - evolution of humans (web)
Sex and the Single Guppy [doc]- uses a shockwave simulator to breed generations of guppy and analyze species change (web)
Peppered Moth Simulation - a game that analyzes how coloration affects moth populations (web)

Cell Biology

Cheek Cell Lab -- Students scrape cells from their cheeks and view under a microscope (or skin cells from their wrists)
Diffusion Lab -- Uses a cheap plastic baggie and iodine to show diffusion.
Observing Osmosis - using an egg
DNA coloring -- Worksheet with a DNA picture, includes coloring instructions and information about DNA
Euglena Coloring -- Protist picture, info and questions
Paramecium -- Observation of a living Paramecium
Ameba Coloring - Coloring the structures of an ameba
Animal Cell Coloring - general animal cell, coloring
Plant Cell Coloring - plant cell
Cell Theory Rap - poem to help you learn
Cell City Analogy - worksheet that describes a city, comparing to organelles
Meiosis -simple worksheet, phases of meiosis
Mitosis - onion cell drawing (to be labeled)

How DNA Controls the Cell - transcription & translation

Cell Respiration Concept Map (advanced)

Animals

Ascaris Mitosis -- For use with Microslide viewers
Behavior -- A classroom activity that shows different types of learning

Fish Coloring -- Internal anatomy of a fish, identify organs

Fish Lab -- Measure how temperature effects the respiration rate of a goldfish
Observation of a Living Fish - watch a fish, label fins, and examine countershading
Observation of a Living Frog
Observation of a Living Earthworm
Observation of a Live Planarian
Hydra Lab - anatomy and behavior of hydra
Territorial Behavior in Crickets

Isopod Behavior Lab

Mammal Chart -- Practice with Orders and characteristics
Mammal Worksheet - more practice with orders and relationships
Simple Worms -- Lab looks at preserved and living specimens
Amniote Egg Coloring - learn the structures of the amniote egg

Arthropod Chart
Arthropod Poetry
Arthropod Coloring [ doc ]

Sponge Anatomy
Sponge Coloring
Hydra Anatomy

Bird Beaks & Feet - make inferences about diet and habitat

Genetics

Dihybrid Crosses -- Worksheet with practice problems
Human Genetics Survey -- Class compares personal traits
Oompa Loompa Genetics -- Practice with crosses
Paper Pets [ doc ] - imaginary creatures using genetic rules
Genetics Practice: Codominance & Incomplete Dominance
Genetics: X Linked [ doc ]
Genetics: Multiple Alleles [ doc ]
Penny Genetics -- Activity uses pennies to show how probability and punnet squares work
Pipe Cleaner Babies - uses pipecleaners and beads to show how genes and chromosomes are inherited
Design a Species - Students create imaginary organisms that follow genetics rules
Chromosome Study - Students prepare a karyotype of an abnormal and normal patient.
Very Simple Genetics Practice
Codon Bingo
DNA Coloring - color DNA and RNA
DNA Extraction - lab to extract DNA from an onion