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Looking for an exercise in reading graphs that goes along with Cell Respiration? This 2 page worksheet for High School biology class asks students read and analyze 3 graphs/charts and answer 19 questions regarding the data presented. This Word file is editable to fit your classroom's specific needs or ready to print and use right away.

Over 60 new memes and more than 70 classic memes to use in your classroom. Topics include lab safety, classroom expectations, and other things students need to know. Includes a few memes on COVID-19 safety. If you are looking for a humorous way to introduce the upcoming school year to your students, look no further! This PowerPoint allows you to pick and choose which memes best fit your class objectives. You can even print out individual slides and place them around your room as student rem

72 page textbook covering Zoology from an evolutionary perspective. Includes 8 chapters exploring the following: You can buy each chapter individually, or save big when you buy them all together. Chapter 1: Classification Chapter 2: Evolution Chapter 3: Invertebrates Chapter 4: Chordates and Fish Chapter 5: Fish to Amphibians Chapter 6: Reptiles Chapter 7: Birds Chapter 8: Mammals Use this book in a high school Zoology class, Biology class, AP Biology. Concepts are explained in a with humor a

Looking for a new way to introduce lab process and scientific method? Use this lab as a great way to show students how science is done! This lab helps incorporate students love of music with scientific principles. By having the students listen to a variety of different tunes and measuring their pulse before and after each one, it attempts to answer the question, "Does music have an effect on your heart rate?" In short, easy to understand sections, this lab walks students through the sci

Having trouble getting your students to understand Climate Change? Looking for something to fit with the new NGSS framework? This activity will help! Students will produce a variety of graphs using real data sets from NOAA, The Hadley Centre, The World Bank, and others. Students are tasked with creating the graphs and then analyzing how the graphs relate to each other. A great activity for traditional classrooms as well as classrooms that are 1:1 with either laptops or chromebooks. If yo

Students are tasked with using Latin/Greek stem definitions to "translate" 20 Dinosaur Names great for biology or general science classes. Help students understand that most fancy science words define themselves if you have a little background knowledge of the Latin and Greek stems. Great way to tie together the language arts and science curriculum, Can also help with ACT Prep. The name Tyrannosaurus Rex becomes a lot more real for students when they discover it means "Tyrant Lizard King". T

In this activity students will use nutrition information from McDonald's to calculate what exactly is in their favorite fast food meal. They will learn to read dense data tables and gather information like total caloric content and grams of protein found in several different meals. Activity includes both the questions and a PDF copy of nutritional information from McDonalds. If you have access to laptops or Chrome Books, change it up a bit and have the students find the nutrition informatio

Looking for something a little different in your cell division unit? This activity asks students to create a graph of a data set related to the cell cycle and then answer questions about that data set. Students are asked to identify trends in the data and determine where on the graph the phases of the cell cycle would take place. Also contains a simple graphic organizer for the phases of the cell cycle. This activity can be done as a "paper and pencil" activity or, should you be one of the

This is a perfect project for a biology class. Help your students learn about evolution, adaptations, and natural selection with this engaging activity! In Parts 1 and 2 students will examine how environmental pressures affect the evolution of an organism by designing an environment and then creating a critter that is well adapted to that environment. In Part 3 of this activity, students can explore how change within their environment would affect the evolution or possible extinction of their

This activity walks students through the sometimes confusing world of population growth math. It first defines terms and explains key concepts like "per capita", "growth rate", and "rate of growth". Once the terms are identified, students are then given a few problems and asked to perform calculations to identify how the number of individuals in a population would change under certain circumstances. Also contains population pyramids for students to analyze.

An activity that allows students some creativity and freedom in learning about cells and cell processes for biology class. Students are asked to create a comic/graphic novel which explains cell parts and functions. This document contains directions for the project as well as a graphic organizer with hyperlinks to 3 videos and 4 websites. Students can use the graphic organizer for to take notes on each video/website. A fun activity that my students have enjoyed for several years. If your sc

This 5 page document is part of a teacher written textbook for Zoology. Written with a sense of humor that students can connect to. Includes major amphibian orders as well an in depth discussion of the evolution of amphibians from their fish ancestors. Keywords: Zoology, evolution, amphibians, phylogeny, tetrapods, tikaalik, eusthenopteron, ichthyostega, acanthostega, transitional fossil, fishapod, caudata, gymnophiona, anura. To see all individual chapters in the book visit our Zoology c

The Earth formed almost 4.6 billion years ago which is an offensive amount of time. Help your students understand how much time this actually is by having them build a geologic timeline! In part one of this activity, students are asked to draw a timeline using an animated online timeline as a reference. In this part they will learn, among other things, that T. rex is closer in time to eating Justin Bieber than to eating a Stegosaurus. In the second part, the students are asked to use seve

38 slide powerpoint that teaches the system of Taxonomy Classification. Great lesson for biology class. Great guided lesson for students to learn about this concept. Contains information on taxonomy basics, phylogeny, information on the 3 domains of life, common ancestors, and several examples of the taxonomy of organisms.

Students will create a timeline for evolution and place over 35 events including the formation of the earth, 1st multicellular organisms, first mammals, dinosaur extinction, humans, and more. 3 pages including graphic organizer for students to write the approximate time of the 35 listed events and description of selected events. This biology project is editable to fit your class needs.

This 8 page document is part of a teacher written textbook for Zoology. Students will learn about chordates and fish through a witty and engaging read that uses humor to connect to students. Includes an in depth discussion of the evolution of chordates from their ancestors. Also includes a discussion of the evolution of fish. Keywords: Zoology, evolution, fish, phylogeny, chordata, chordates, vertebrata, agnatha, myxini, hagfish, hyperoartia, lampreys, placodermi, placoderms, chondrichthyes

This 23 page document is part of a teacher written textbook for Zoology. Explore all of the major invertebrate phyla: Porifera, Cnidaria, Platyhelminthes, Mollusca, Nematoda, Annelida, Arthropoda and Echinodermata. Told with wit and humor that high school students can connect with. To see all individual chapters in the book visit our Zoology category. Or get the whole textbook in either a PDF format or Editable Word document

A Graphic organizer for biology students to record information on the... -digestive system -excretory system -reproduction -Nervous system -muscular system -support/skeletal system -circulatory system for the following: Porifera Cnidaria Platymelminthes Annelida Mollusca Nematoda Arthropoda Echinodermata

28 slide PowerPoint biology lesson describing inheritance and Punnett squares. Contains vocabulary and information on Mendel's experiments, as well as step by step directions for doing monohybrid, dihybrid, sex linked, and codominant punnett squares. Also contains basic information on incomplete dominance, karyotypes, epistasis, polygenic inheritance, and environmental factors affecting gene expression.

This 7 page document is part of a teacher written textbook for Zoology. This chapter focuses on Birds. Includes major bird orders as well an in depth discussion of the evolution of birds from their reptile ancestors. Told with wit and humor that high school students can connect with. Keywords: Zoology, evolution, birds, aves, archaeopteryx, phylogeny, ornithischian, saurischian, theropods, thermoregulation, ratite, carinite, transitional fossil, feathers, velociraptor, convergent evolutio