Taylor Kane

This worksheet has students researching a disease caused by a bacteria or virus and finding out various facts about how the disease affects individuals, how it is contracted, and other components of the bacteria/disease.

This product provides the resources for you class to put the Avengers on trial! This informal, mock trial case makes use of the Avengers and allows for students to step into the role of civilians and superheroes in the world of the marvel cinematic universe. They will grapple with legal and ethical questions as the prosecution and defense attempt to make their case. The trial is very open ended and can be run either by appointing a student as judge or having students not taking a role be the jur

Included here are 9 Punnett square worksheets that have students completing Punnett squares and answering questions about them afterward. There are 3 tiers of worksheet, each with 3 different versions. I use these with my students, allowing them to select the difficulty they feel comfortable working with and use the varied versions to reduce the amount of cheating that goes on when students choose to work together. The tiered worksheets encourage students to challenge themselves, as the more dif

Students will roll dice to randomly generate population numbers and then graph their results. Afterward, they will try to come up with rational explanations that could explain the increases/decreases they see the populations experience, as well as go over some basic questions that relate to population growth and trends. Product Includes: Worksheet and Teacher Instructions

Fun and interesting lab to have students determine if something is alive, or not alive, and what determines this. Students will be given a sample of a "slime" creature to observe and determine what makes it alive or not alive through various tests. Includes: Student Handout, Teacher Instructions, and Tips for making the lesson really "wow" your kids. Great for a first lab of the year and getting students to think and talk like scientists. Simple, quick, and fun!

Students will create their own unique biomes populated by organisms of their own choosing, or their own creation! They will then list how these organisms will arrive in the order of succession as their biome is colonized. They will also identify the biotic and abiotic factors found in this new biome.

In this lab, students will write their own hypothesis about whether caffeine will prevent the growth of mold in coffee. Does coffee really "stunt growth"??? Students will then take daily observations before proving or disproving their hypothesis. Product Includes: Student Worksheet and Teacher Instructions

This worksheet has students creating their own imaginary creatures and creating symbiotic relationships between them. Great for having students exercise creativity and synthesizing their own models of material taught in the classroom. Product Includes: Worksheet and Teacher Instructions

A worksheet meant to be done in pairs, this worksheet has students creating a disaster of some kind and then trading papers with another student to try and fix the disaster they created, taking into account biotic/abiotic factors as well as the process of secondary succession.