This simple worksheet pairs with a lesson on the light microscope, where beginning …
Biology lesson plans, worksheets, tutorials and resources for teachers and students.
Students analyze a community of beans (pinto, lima, navy) to determine the richness, …
Measuring Biodiversity Using Beans
Students learn how the "mark and recapture" technique can be used to estimate …
Estimating Population Size: A Netlogo Simulation
Students model how field biologists would use a sampling technique to estimate the …
Random Sampling
This activity asks students to sort seashells and calculate the Simpson's biodiversity index. …
Biodiversity Index
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Kaibab Plateau was witness to …
The Lesson of the Kaibab
Practice labeling the nephron with this reinforcement activity. Students can also color the …
Color and Label the Nephron
In order to convert my lectures to phenomenon-based lessons, I started the community …
Niche Partitioning – Gorongosa Phenomenon
This year I decided to change the way I teach the last unit …
Trophic Cascades
In this activity, students use string to model the gastrointestinal tract as a …
Modeling the Alimentary Canal
This procedural lab is a great compliment for genetic studies where students learn …
Investigation: Gel Electrophoresis
Based on the Berkeley website: Understanding Evolution, this version focuses on the how …
Case Study: How Do Tibetans Survive High Altitudes
This data analysis is paired with a short video about how a group …
Data Analysis: Funky Juncos
This activity is designed to help students examine scatter plots that show phenotype …
Data Analysis: Virginia Opossum
This activity was modified from HHMI’s “Modeling the Regulatory Switches of the Pitx1 …
Investigation: Gene Switches in Stickleback Fish
In this activity, students use a codon chart to compare the DNA sequence …
DNA, Proteins, and Sickle Cell
In an effort to add more real data to the DNA (genetics) unit, …
Dog SNPs and Curly Hair
Beginning biology students can really struggle with dihybrid crosses and setting up Punnet …
Genetic Crosses with 2 Traits
Many of us may have used virtual dissection platforms to supplement classroom activities …
What Happened to Virtual Dissections?
Students use this dissection guide to learn the anatomy of the heart, using …
Sheep Heart Dissection
Coloring activities can be helpful to give students a chance to model the …
Digestive System Coloring
Students explore how DNA becomes a function protein by using a codon chart …
DNA, Proteins, and Mutations
This lesson can be used to introduce evolution and establish what your students …
Evolution: Fact, Fiction, or Opinion
Students studying blood and the lymphatic students can get overwhelmed with the terminology …
Concept Map on Blood
In this case, students explore how cholera is spread and how it affects …
Case Study: How to Survive a Cholera Epidemic
This activity includes a section of reading that explains how the aminote egg …
Amniote Egg Ecoloring
The first part of this investigation, students examine slides of mitosis in an …
Investigation: Mitosis and Cancer Cells
Students investigate the sensitivity of different areas of the skin using a mathematical …
Investigation: Two Point Discrimination Test
Most units on ecology include some introduction to the world’s biomes, though I’ve …
Biome Project
Avoid paying for expensive lesson plan books by just printing your own from …
Lesson Plan Template
Add a little fantasy to your genetics unit by having students practice doing …
Dragon Genetics
In order to review for final exams and to also tie together the …
Review with Whiteboard Panels
As a part of the chapter on cell signal pathways, students perform a …
Investigation: Taste Buds and Signal Transduction
Use this coloring worksheet to explore how plant cells harvest energy form the …
Photosystems and Chemiosmosis Coloring
Add a hands-on experience to your unit on the skeleton system by having …
Investigation: Estimate Height from Bones
This activity can be performed as student lead inquiry lab or as a …