Students practice labeling organelles on a simple model (2D) and a more complex …
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Have you ever thought about how insects with 6 legs actually crawl? Human …
Investigation: How Do Insects Move?
I give my students an elodea sprig with several leaves and have them …
Anchoring Phenomenon and Osmosis
Most science classes begin the year with an exercise on the scientific method. …
Penny Lab: Soap and Surface Tension
This graphic organizer (concept map) organizes the cell structures around the three main …
Cell Structures: A Graphic Organizer
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Science Articles for Kids
Students read short text passages and then color images to help them relate …
Photosynthesis Coloring
Students label the image of a cell undergoing mitosis and answer questions about …
Cell Cycle Labeling
This worksheet is used with a beginning anatomy unit that discusses anatomical terminology …
Label the Body Regions
With the adoption of NGSS, I've had to make cuts to some of …
Comparing the Ameba to the Paramecium
This activity asks students to calculate the population change (births - deaths) and …
Deer: Predation or Starvation?
This exercise illustrates the difference between bar graphs and scatter plots and walks …
Graphing Hand Span and Height
Students practice analyzing pie charts, scatter plots, and bar graphs in the basic …
Interpreting Graphs
This activity was designed for anatomy and physiology students who are studying how …
Investigation: How Does Exercise Affect Heart Rate
Graphic of the body systems where students fill in blanks about structures within …
Body Systems Graphic Organizer
Examine urine samples from patients and suggest a diagnosis and treatment plan based …
Urine Luck! – A Urinalysis Simulation
Students read text that describe the parts and functions of the microscope and …
Color the Parts of a Microscope
This simple worksheet pairs with a lesson on the light microscope, where beginning …
Microscope Labeling
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 …