This short reading passage describes the mitochondrion’s role in metabolism and the production …
Biology lesson plans, worksheets, tutorials and resources for teachers and students.
This coloring activity is suitable for beginning biology students who are learning about …
Color the North American Biomes
This coloring worksheet is intended for anatomy students who have already been introduced …
Color the Neuron and Neuroglia
This activity is intended to introduce students to spreadsheets while also reinforcing concepts …
Investigation: Stride Length and Bone Lengths
This graphic illustrates how atmospheric carbon dioxide is produced during cellular respiration and …
Analyzing Graphics: The Carbon Cycle
One of my favorite scientific method activities was a project that used a …
Investigation: What Factors Affect Cricket Chirps?
In this investigation, students simulate how mark and recapture techniques are used to …
Investigation: Estimating Population Size
This simple activity was designed for intro level biology (life science). Students …
Comparing the Anatomy of Arthropods (Coloring)
High school teachers often assume that their students know how to use basic …
How to Use a Spreadsheet to Create a Graph
This activity uses a simulation from the Concord Consortium that shows how DNA …
DNA Mutation Activity
This activity can be a good introduction to logic and how fallacies can …
What Are Logical Fallacies?
This worksheet describes the structures of the unicellular protist known as the ameba. …
Color the Cellular Structures of the Ameba
This simple worksheet has two reading passages, similar to what students may see …
Scientific Method in Action
This case study examines evolution in guppies as evidenced by color variation in populations. …
Case Study: How Did the Guppy Get His Color?
This is a close reading and annotation exercise that can be completed in …
How Can Gene Editing Eliminate Lyme Disease?
This worksheet is similar to the animal cell coloring and the plant cell …
Color a Typical Prokaryote Cell
This case study focuses on a news story whose headline declares that a …
Case Study: How Do Genes Determine Skin Color?
In this activity, students color a DNA molecule according to directions that describe …
DNA Coloring
A short article about autopsies and medical examiners intended for students in anatomy. …
What Is an Autopsy?
This worksheet provides students with practice problems on multiple allele traits, specifically on …
Practice Problems: Genetics and Blood Types
Biology students learn to analyze pedigrees as part of a unit on genetics. …
Analyzing Human Pedigrees
This investigation was designed originally as a case study which included data analysis …
Investigation – Animal Behavior
Food webs are basic concepts in biology and ecology, where students learn the …
Food Web: Identify Consumers
Students learn basic Mendelian genetics by crossing traits from fruit flies and pea …