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This breakout (escape room) style activity is a fun, challenging review task for macromolecules! Students can work cooperatively or as individuals. The activity can be entirely paper-based or students can access a digital escape room form to reduce the paper load. Everything you need is included here - no need to buy boxes and locks or put in massive prep time to have a great learning experience! This resource includes:1) A teacher's guide with instructions and tips for preparation and use w

Students travel from station to station reading information and looking at graphics to learn about or review basic chemistry, recording their answers within a student packet. This keeps students moving and focused! Answer key included. 17 station signs include information on: atomic structure, subatomic particles, isotopes, electron arrangements, Bohr models, Lewis dot diagrams, molecules, periodic table, ionic bonds, polar and nonpolar covalent bonds, hydrogen bonds. These stations help drive h

Muscular System - Crash Course Biology #31 This resource includes a student worksheet to use while watching this CrashCourse episode. CrashCourse videos are excellent resources by Hank Green. They are entertaining and engaging for the high school classroom. An answer key is included, as well as a transcript of the program. These videos can be used in-class or as homework. They can even part of a "flipped" classroom! Have a great year!~Science Classy Buying multiple video guides bundled togethe

This breakout (escape room) style activity is a fun, challenging review task for mitosis and meiosis! Students can work cooperatively or as individuals. The activity can be entirely paper-based or students can access a digital escape room Google form to reduce paper use. Everything you need is included here - no need to buy boxes and locks or put in massive prep time to have a great learning experience! This resource includes:1) A teacher's guide with instructions and tips for preparation and u

In this activity, students use short authentic science articles to practice identifying key elements of experimental design, including the research question, independent variable, dependent variable, constants, control set-up, and experimental set-up. The articles can be printed for students or accessed electronically through links to the sites. This activity introduces NGSS Science and Engineering Practices including Asking Questions and Defining Problems, Planning and Carrying Out Investig

Give students an opportunity for some hands-on fun! Examine concepts related to cellular respiration, including aerobic and anaerobic respiration, and especially starring the process of alcoholic fermentation by yeast! Most of my students had never made bread before, so this was an adventure for us, and they practiced something they may be able to use at home. This resources includes a teacher's guide with instructions for how to set up this lab across days and student handout with the recip

With this chemistry review 16-piece puzzle students use their chemistry knowledge to sort terms and definitions to put together the puzzle. This is a great active engagement and retrieval practice tool. While students' hands are sorting, their minds are questioning, organizing, and making connections!There are two versions of the puzzle available - one that helps students identify the four central squares, and one that does not for a greater level of challenge. There are also two formats of e

This crossword puzzle is an excellent review of challenging vocabulary related to cellular respiration. Students need practice with identifying the key vocab, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary! This crossword focuses in on the following vocabulary, which may be most suitable for an AP, advanced/honors, or introductory college biology course: aerobic respiration, anaerobic respiration, facultative anae

This crossword puzzle is an excellent review of challenging vocabulary related to natural selection and evolution. Students need practice with identifying the key vocab, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary! This crossword focuses in on the following vocabulary, which may be most suitable for an AP Biology, advanced/honors, or introductory college biology course: acquired trait, adaptation, adaptive evolu

This DNA replication review 16-piece puzzle is a great active engagement tool. Content focuses on DNA structure and replication. While students' hands are sorting, their minds are questioning, organizing, and making connections! There are three versions of the puzzle available so you choose what might best match your class or you can differentiate for your students - Level 1 - Does not have terms/images along the outside edges. Level 2 - The pieces that belong in the center are colored

Immune System - Crash Course Biology #32 This resource includes a student worksheet to use while watching this CrashCourse episode. CrashCourse videos are excellent resources by Hank Green. They are entertaining and engaging for the high school classroom. An answer key is included, as well as a transcript of the program. These videos can be used in-class or as homework. They can even part of a "flipped" classroom! Have a great year!~Science Classy Buying multiple video guides bundled together

This crossword puzzle is an excellent review of challenging cellular structures vocabulary. Students need practice with identifying vocabulary, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary! This crossword focuses in on the following vocabulary, which has terms and descriptions that may be most suitable for an AP Biology, advanced/honors, or introductory college biology course: cell wall, central vacuole, centrio

Product Description This crossword puzzle is an excellent review of vocabulary related to population ecology. Students need practice with identifying the key vocab, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary! This crossword focuses in on the following vocabulary:age structure, carrying capacity, logistic population growth, population, population dynamics, cohort, demographic transition, demography, density, den

This breakout (escape room) style activity is a fun, challenging review task for types of cells and cell structures! Students can work cooperatively or as individuals. The activity can be entirely paper-based or students can access a digital escape room form to reduce the paper load. Everything you need is included here - no need to buy boxes and locks or put in massive prep time to have a great learning experience! This resource includes:1) A teacher's guide with instructions and tips for prep

This crossword puzzle is an excellent review of challenging vocabulary related to macromolecules - proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and nucleic acids. Students need practice with identifying the key vocab, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary! This crossword focuses in on the following vocabulary, which may be most suitable for an AP Biology, advanced/honors, or introductory college biology course: amino

This crossword puzzle is a review of challenging vocabulary related to organic chemistry in the context of biology. Students need help identifying the key vocab, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary! This crossword includes the following vocabulary, which may be most suitable for an AP Biology, advanced/honors, or introductory college biology course: adenosine, carbonyl, carboxyl, cis-trans isomers, enan

This activity provides student practice with scientific notation, with opportunity to incorporate movement, provide students feedback, and break up the typical worksheet format for practicing this math skill. Six stations include information on writing numbers in scientific notation, exponential metric prefixes, multiplying, dividing, adding and subtracting. The included teacher's guide provides ideas on different ways to use the stations. An answer key for the student answer sheet is include

This crossword puzzle is an excellent review of challenging vocabulary related to cellular membranes. Students need practice with identifying the key vocab, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary! This crossword focuses in on the following vocabulary, which may be most suitable for an AP Biology, advanced/honors, or introductory college biology course: active transport, amphipathic, aquaporin, concentratio

This crossword puzzle is an excellent review of challenging vocabulary related to the chromosomal basis of inheritance. Students need practice with identifying the key vocab, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary! This crossword focuses in on the following vocabulary in both the terms and their descriptions, which may be most suitable for an AP Biology, advanced/honors, or introductory college biology

This crossword puzzle is an excellent review of challenging vocabulary related to meiosis and sexual reproduction. Students need practice with identifying the key vocab, plus a crossword provides a round of practice with spelling! Correct spelling can be tough with challenging academic vocabulary! This crossword focuses in on the following vocabulary in both the terms and their descriptions: meiosis, mitosis, heredity, genetics, gamete, gene, haploid, diploid, variation, homologous, locus,