High school teachers often assume that their students know how to use basic …
Biology lesson plans, worksheets, tutorials and resources for teachers and students.
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 …
Practice Genetics: Sex Linked Genes
This coloring worksheet asks students to color the kidney to identify where structures …
The Anatomy of the Kidney and Nephron
If your class modeled inheritance using popsicle sticks, this activity builds upon that …
Investigation: Modeling Independent Assortment & Dihybrid Crosses
This handout can be used in discussions on the evolution of bipedalism or …
Compare a Human and Chimpanzee Skeleton
In this activity, you will use popsicle sticks to model the process of …
Investigation: Modeling Heredity with Popsicle Sticks
Students learning basic Mendelian genetics can practice assigning genotypes and identifying heterozygous and …
Simple Genetics Practice Problems
In this investigation, students use balloons and rulers to estimate the vital capacity …
Investigation: What Factors Affect Lung Capacity
Many anatomy classes will require students to learn, in order, the twelve cranial …
How to Learn the 12 Cranial Nerves
This simple activity asks students to cut out shapes of nucleotides, each having …
Construct a DNA Model
My classroom has a collection of science themed books that are not textbooks …
Maintaining a Science Library
This presentation case study asks two important questions regarding cat coloration: Why are …
Case Study: Why Are There No Male Calico Cats?
This activity was modified from an Advanced Placement Investigation for use with freshman …
Investigation: Habitat Selection in Flour Beetles
Genetic Experiments can be intimidating for teachers due to the time and cost …
Inquiry in Genetics Using Wisconsin Fast Plants
Are your students fascinated by the idea of hermaphrodites? Every year when …
Meiosis Case: SRY not SRY
I try to read at least one non-fiction book per year to try …