POP Science

OverviewLooking for an engaging and interactive notes page to teach or review complete and incomplete metamorphosis? This interactive folding notes page is designed to teach students to differentiate between incomplete and complete metamorphosis. It also helps student compare and contrast various types of life cycles including: insects, frogs, birds, and plants. It is important that students understand that all living things have life cycles with distinct forms. The note portion under each t

Looking for an engaging, hands-on manipulative to teach types of cell membrane transport such as simple diffusion, facilitated diffusion, and osmosis? This interactive model activity, which can be used face-to-face and virtually, helps student conceptually understand how concentration gradients are involved in the movement of molecules across a cell membrane. The newly added digital version creates a no-prep option for this powerful activity. OverviewIn this activity, students are expected to

Overview: This activity includes both animal and plant cell foldables. These foldables are used to teach students the structure and functions of plant and animal cell organelles. The students are required to identify and color the organelles on each tab of the foldable using a color key provided. Fill-in-the-blank notes for each organelle are included under each tab for students to complete as well. After the foldable is complete, each tab has a specific organelle colored. When the student

This is a fill-in-the-blank notes page that highlights the similarities and differences between prokaryoteic and eukaryotic cells. It also provides students with visual representations of each type of cell. A teacher key is included. This notes page could be trimmed down or folded in half to fit in a science notebook. When notes need to be given, this fill-in-the-blank note taking strategy saves tons of time and tends to be more engaging for the students.

This card sort manipulative allows students to build an understanding of interactions within body systems. It is a great formative assessment piece as well. Students are using cooperative learning to sort through information and build a deeper understanding of body system functions.

This is an interactive worksheet aimed at helping students learn the anatomy of the heart as well as the circulation of blood through the heart. Student create a color key and correctly color the various structures of the heart. They label the circulation and describe where it is going and coming from. It is a great formative assessment activity to help teachers assess students’ knowledge about the topic. You may also love our Heart Anatomy Foldable and Heart Anatomy and Circulation Board Game

Overview: This is an interactive activity that helps students understand that all living things have basic needs that must be met in order to survive. Students must distinguish the differences and similarities in animals and plant needs as well as differentiating between biologic needs for survival and other non-biological needs.

This a reference handout of weather symbols and their meaning.

This notes page covers the structure of DNA, functions of DNA, discovery of DNA, general fact/information about DNA, and terminology including: chromosomes, gene, genome, protein, histones, nucleotide, nitrogen base, hydrogen bond, Watson, Crick, base pairs. In some states (including Texas), DNA and it's structure are introduced in the 7th grade. This is an excellent notes page for middle school teachers who teach in states where this topic is introduced in middle school. However, this notes

This is a well organized fill-in-the-blank notes page that thoroughly covers gene expression as a regulated process. Please see the preview document to know exactly what content it covers. I have created and included many images to help explain the complex content for the visual learners. Gene expression can be easily understood if the information is presented in a well organized way. This notes page along with the graphics included do just that. There are two sets of notes in the file. O

This interactive, hands-on graphic organizer helps students understand the difference in heterotrophic and autotrophic organisms. Students are given a set of cards with examples, definitions and characteristics of each type of organism. They must correctly organize the cards onto the graphic organizer “skeleton”. It is sort of like solving a puzzle. I have included two different levels of content. One requires students to differentiate between the following types of organisms: photoautotroph

These are large, medium and small chromosome templates. The large to medium sized ones are designed to be printed on card stock, laminated, and a magnet clued on the back. The small ones can be printed for each individual student or pair of students to use. I use them in my classroom to demonstrate on the board the Law of Segregation, Law of Independent Assortment, meiosis, mitosis, monohybrid and dihybrid crosses and Punnett squares. They help students conceptually understand the meaning of

Description of Activity: In this activity, students are given a flow chart with blank boxes as well as a set of example cards (i.e. burning wood, charging a battery, and fusion.) Students must correctly place the cards in the correct box on their interactive graphic organizer. This is a great formative assessment activity. Materials/Prep • Print/copy card sets (1 per group of 2 or 3 students) • Print/copy flow chart boards (1 per group of 2 or 3 students) • Laminate and cut card sets for each

This graphic organizer helps students understand the different levels of regulation in gene expression. There is a blank graphic organizer for students to fill in as a notes page or as a formative assessment activity as well a completed graphic organizer for you to have a key. This could also be adapted into an interactive manipulative by printing/laminating the blank graphic organizer and printing, laminating, and cutting up the completed graphic organizer into cards that students "play" on

This notes page gives students a visual representation of what all those letters in the Punnett square actually means. This notes page shows the cells and chromosomes with the alleles labelled which helps them conceptually understand how we come up with the letter combinations that go across the top and side of the Punnett Square. It also helps students understand the meaning of segregation and independent assortment as it relates to Punnett Squares. I have provided a fill-in-the-blank version

This diagram is designed to help students understand that post transcriptional and post-translational modification processes increase an organisms protein diversity. If you are looking for help getting students to understand that 1 gene = Many proteins rather than the common misconception that 1 gene = 1 protein, this would be a great visual aide. See my other gene expression activities including my Mechanisms of Gene Expression and Regulation and my Regulation of Gene Expression Graphic Organi

Please note that this image is included in my Regulation of Gene Expression Note Page ©Marianne Dobrovolny - www.biologylessons.org Genetic Levels of Gene Expression (Detailed) by Marianne Dobrovolny is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

This is the template and instructions on how to create an eight page tabbed book. Detailed images to are included to help students create their book. This template would be great for creating an 8 tabbed book about the moon phases, the stages of meiosis, 8 most influential presidents among various other topics. Marianne Dobrovolny

Please note that this image is included in my Regulation of Gene Expression Notes Page. This graphic organizer helps students understand that our genome is made up of both coding and non-coding DNA and the difference between those two types of DNA. A similar but more complex and detailed graphic organizer can be found on my TpT store (www.biologylessons.org): "Genetic Levels of Gene Expression Graphic Organizer © Marianne Dobrovolny - www.biologylessons.org Genome Graphic Organizer (basic) by

This is an interactive graphic organizer as well as a formative assessment page. Students are given a laminated venn diagram and a set of example cards. Each student or group of students must determine where each example card fits on the venn diagram.