Life Science

Have some fun with plant and animal cells! As an introduction to organelles, kids in conduct research and design creative Organelle Trail posters. An informational text, study materials, and assessment are included with the science project.

You’ll love this introduction to microscopes! A labeled diagram teaches parts, and a sheet of definitions explains functions. Worksheets, flashcards, assessment, and two easy labs are also included.

Six models and projects simulate human body systems. Students then read passages on the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, nervous, muscular, skeletal, and immune systems. Three graphic organizers are included for each. Flash cards and assessment are included.

Five activities help students conceptualize how vision is only possible when light reflects off of an object. Additionally, they learn parts of the eye and compare them to a camera's parts. Kids develop models to illustrate the concept. As a culmination or assessment, a worksheet asks them to label parts of the eye and explain what is necessary to see.

Explore parts of a plant with hands-on biology activities. Students examine internal and external structures and functions of seeds, flowers, roots, stems, and leaves; conduct flower dissection and germination labs; explore dispersal and photosynthesis; learn about xylem and phloem; and more! Video links, writing prompts, review, assessment, and materials to create a growing display are also included in this unit.

In this set of hydroponics activities, kids explore what plants need. They germinate seeds in baggies, learn about photosynthesis, review the engineering design process, participate in a STEM challenge, and write to support a claim that plants get what they need mainly from air and water.

In this science lab, kids encounter a simulated pond ecosystem with ten sets of ten small organisms. In groups, they use different tools to illustrate bird beak adaptations. Group members pick up organisms, record number caught, organize and graph data, and answer questions. It’s a fun and educational animal structures experiment!

This jigsaw animal research project asks each student to explore a different adaptation on a bird website, answer questions, and create a poster. The short activity packs a lot of punch. Students read closely and peruse media to answer questions. Then they explore specific structures and organize information on prepackaged organizers.

Nine reading passages and cooperative learning activities immerse kids in ways animals form groups to survive. They also explore names of different animal groups, compare, and write using evidence from the articles.

This interdisciplinary project is the perfect blend of reading informational texts, life science, critical thinking, and writing.

This life cycles project helps kids understand common stages: birth, growth, adulthood, reproduction, and death. Using the jigsaw method, each student explores one of nine organisms. They cut, paste, and color to create a timeline. Then they share in small groups and answer questions.

Students get plenty of biology practice with three food chain projects; three producers, consumers, and decomposers sorting activities; and two food web worksheets.

This scaffolded science unit helps students understand ecosystems. Kids learn about cells and photosynthesis; producers, consumers, and decomposers; and movement in food chains and webs. Then they explore how energy flows and matter cycles through the system.

Let kids act like ecosystem engineers! They explore problems caused by invasive species, evaluate solutions, develop claims and evidence. Activities integrate science, engineering design, and writing.

Kids use math and science to learn more about organisms from long ago. They count and measure fossils to generate data, create picture and bar graphs, solve subtraction problems, and make line plots.

Kids explore how variations in frogs’ characteristics may provide advantages in survival, finding mates, and reproducing. They investigate simulated frog tongues and eggs, read about courtship, and camouflage a frog to blend in with the classroom environment. It’s seriously fun science!

This simple, straightforward set of activities teaches kids about inherited traits. Students observe four photos (tomato plants, butterfly fish, sea turtles, bulldogs), collect data, and draw conclusions about heredity.

Kids observe photos of traits influenced by the environment, establish cause-effect relationships for acquired characteristics, and write explanatory paragraphs or essays. This set of interdisciplinary activities addresses science and writing standards.