Click image for free download. FREE Graphing and Data Analysis Worksheet By the time I teach the fungi to my biology classes, several months have passed since the beginning of the school year. At the start of each school year, I spend quite a bit of time teaching graphing and data analysis skills. I use this simple and FREE activity to kill two birds with one stone. This activity allows me the opportunity to review the basic science skills of graphing and data analysis while at the same time reinforcing concepts on the fungi. Mycorrhizae are fungal hyphae that live in mutualistic relationships with the roots of plants. Mycorrhizae are essential in the role of increasing absorptive surface area of plant roots. Mycorrhizae enable plant roots to absorb water as well as phosphorus and other essential mineral ions. In this activity, students are given information about plants that are grown with and without the assistance of mycorrhizae. Quantitative data is given. Students graph the data and answer 8 data analysis questions. This is perfect for a short homework assignment or classwork. This can also be left in your sub folder to be used in your absence. And best of all...it is absolutely FREE!! Mycorrhizae: Graphing and Data Analysis Worksheet Happy Teaching!! (Coming soon... "The Fungi: A Complete Unit Plan of 10 Products")

Coloring pages and flash cards to study cell parts is a perfect start to introduce science that is engaging.

Free Resources to Help you Teach your lesson on DNA and RNA Structure. Including Worksheets, Guided Notes, Bell Work, Quiz, Power Point, and much much more!

Looking for some new ideas and activities to teach cladograms and phylogenetic trees? Check out this list below of fun activities and interactive websites. 1. Cladogram Construction: This free activity from Carolina Biological is nice and simple- a great way to introduce cladograms to your students. It has students construct a cladogram and then make ... Read more

Every teacher has that one unit they don’t like to teach. For me, it was cells. Having taught every grade from 6th to 12th, it seemed like no matter how hard I tried, the same thing happened every year. I taught organelles, students memorized them for a test, and then completely forgot about them. Later ... Read more

This biology end of the year project will have students reflecting back over what they have learned this year in biology in order to complete tasks on 11 different pages. The tasks encourage students to be CREATIVE while they create pages in a book analyzing what they have learned in a new way. Each page has a prompt at the top and covers a different topic taught in biology. The topics covered are listed below: Page 1: Lab Safety Page 2: Biomolecules Page 3: Prokaryotes Page 4: Eukaryotic Cell Page 5: Viruses Page 6: Mitosis Page 7: DNA Page 8: Protein Synthesis Page 9: Genetics Page 10: Natural Selection Page 11: Taxonomy This has been recently updated with an EDITABLE template for you to adjust and use to fit your needs. For your convenience, I have also included a rubric that details what students should have on each page in order to receive complete credit. So if you are looking for a great way to wrap up this school year try out this resource! It is sure to get your students thinking about Biology in a whole new way! Be sure to get TPT credit for future purchases! Go to your My Purchases page once you are logged in to TPT. Beside each purchase you'll see a “Provide Feedback “button. Once you click it, you will be given the opportunity to leave a rating and short comment about the resource. Stay in the loop! Click HERE to follow my store and receive updates about new resources Stay connected with me! Instagram Facebook Twitter Pinterest I hope your students enjoy this activity as much as mine! -Lacey VanBuskirk

Build a Heart Model - STEM activity about heart rates and how blood flows through the body. Engineer a functioning model of a beating heart.

Pour ceux qui ont tout oublié, voici une bande dessinée bourrée d’humour qui explique, depuis les fondamentaux jusqu’aux notions les plus complexes, le monde incroyable de la biologie. On y trouvera :  •256 pages d’explications claires et illustrées en bande dessinée. •Une progression très pédagogique

An ant colony is a complex and mysterious place for many of us. What exactly happens in an ant hill? How do their lives function? What parts of the colony do what? Explore all these questions and more with our ant colony puzzle. First find all the spots to fit the rooms and then label your colony to learn even more. The pieces are textured with paint and felt, the ants are tiny and adorable and the pretend colony is ready to thrive! The labels include: Ant Colony Food storage Seed storage Aphid storage Seed husking room Trash room Queen laying eggs Nursery Area Eggs Pupae Larvae Entrance Entrance New room New room Rest area Rest area Dining room Winter room This set is simple enough for a preschooler playset and detailed enough for use within home school or early elementary classrooms. The laminated labels can be used for memory recall or as sight words. Included: 1 felt background with attached ant colony outline 13"x13" (33cm x33cm) 13 felt ant colony rooms 18 laminated felt backed labels Play ideas: Add books on geography, water, water cycles, spring runoff, land forms, ecosystems or habitats. Discuss the differences and similarities between the different parts of an ant colony. Race to see who can assemble the puzzle first. Use as part of a preschool, early elementary or home school science curriculum Free play. Let imagination lead the way. Add small toys for an interactive ant colony. Twig and Daisy felt board sets do not have adhesive or hook and loop tape on the back of the pieces. I only use soft felt and it happens to contain a little bit of magic. Felt sticks to felt even on a vertical surface which is really cool! Adding hook and loop tape will actually ruin your felt board adding picks and making it look worn well before it's time. We are located in Canada and use a shipping service for packages which allows us to use USPS for our US customers and offer better rates to our Canadian and international customers. Please allow approximately 48 hours for US tracking numbers to become active in the USPS system (after your initial shipping notification arrives) or feel free to message for the internal tracking number for my shipping service to show the movement before it enters the USPS system. Please note our processing time is currently 1 to 2 weeks for production. This does not include shipping timelines.

After the biochemistry unit, it’s pretty traditional to teach about cells next. During my first year, I struggled teaching this unit, because it feels so full of details with seemingly very little connection to each other. There is nothing worse than standing in front of a class and listing the organelle names and their […]

Help your kids learn the basic anatomy of the human heart with this easy to use, colorful, and fun printable activity. A perfect addition to your homeschool curriculum, use as a homework helper, or as a busy binder activity for Kindergarten ages kids and older.  Choose from: Build & Study  Includes the colorful activity to cut out and assemble, plus a Human Heart Anatomy vocabulary and definition page. Place the arteries, veins, ventricles, etc. in pace and use the description on the back (or print on a separate page) to discuss each part's function. 3 page PDF file. Coloring Pages Includes black and white coloring pages in the same style as the Build and Study page. Includes a labeled and blank version. 2 page PDF file. ::: I N S T A N T ♥ D O W N L O A D ::: **This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you.** After purchase you will receive an email receipt  with a link to download your purchase.  You will receive a PDF file for printing on regular 8.5”x11” paper. I recommend printing on heavy cardstock and laminating for durability. ::: S H O W ♥ O F F ::: I’d love to see you and your little ones enjoying your new learning activity! Be sure to tag me @arrowsandapplesauce and use #applesaucemama. ::: T H E ♥ L E G A L ♥ S T U F F ::: This printable is intended for personal use only. Not for resale. You may not copy, alter, or share these digital files. Thank you! See my shop policies for more info.  Book in photos: Human Body Theater, Maris Wicks

Recently, blog readers have asked me to write about scope and sequence in my biology class. Determining the best scope and sequence for your students is very difficult as a new teacher. It’s so hard to know! What do I cover? When? And to what depth? I have found that my own personal preferred scope […]

Do you need a differentiated and engaging color by answer worksheet for comparing mitosis and meiosis? This mitosis vs meiosis activity asks your students to identify characteristics of mitosis, meiosis, or both and color based on their answer. You can use this resource as a formative or summative assessment in class as a part of a lesson or as an engaging homework assignment in biology. Furthermore, simply print the activity to allow your students to practice with the standard or even self-assess their own understanding with the included answer keys. The resource also includes differentiation so that you can meet the needs of your individual students. Need the assessment for distance learning? Use the version created for you in TpT Easel or create your own to share with your students. Included: 3 differentiated (see note) versions of the printable worksheet, answer keys, how to guide, compatible with TpT Easel You Might Also Like: DNA Replication Puzzle Genetics Task Cards DNA Structure Bundle of Activities and Assessments Genetics BIG Bundle of Activities and Assessments BIG Biology Bundle of Activities and Assessments Feedback and Followers: Did you know that you can receive credit towards future TpT purchases by reviewing this product? Leave a review at the product page after you download the resource or through “My Purchases”. Use your TpT credits that you earn to purchase other resources.  Do you want to be the first to know about new resources, sales, and free resources? Sign-up here to get email notifications and my Mix it Up Activities and Assessment eBook with templates. And don't forget to click the green star next to my store logo to become a follower. Connect in other ways using the links below! We love to see resources in action. Share them at @iheartsciencefromthesouth to receive a prize!  www.sciencefromthesouth.com Facebook Instagram  Pinterest  Happy Teaching!  Heather  NOTE: This resource is differentiated by activity. Different versions of the same resource are included in the download. The options are available for you to choose which version works best for you and your students and to provide the appropriate activity and level of rigor for each individual. Check out the preview.

What is the rate of respiration in these germinating seeds? Many biology teachers tell me that they dread teaching photosynthesis and respiration to their students. Since I love teaching these concepts, I always ask why they feel this way. Responses include: "My students think it is boring. It is too abstract for the students to understand. There is too much chemistry involved. There aren't any good labs to do." I would have to disagree with all of these statements. Photosynthesis and respiration may be the two topics I love teaching the most! What is more fundamental to the study of biology than photosynthesis and respiration? I have several labs (that I love!) that I do with my students while teaching about respiration. I have already written articles on two of these labs: Gas Exchange in Respiration, and Energy in Foods. This blog post is about a simple and effective method of measuring the rate of respiration in a living organism. As you can see in the photo above, I used Sugar Snap Peas as my choice for a respiring organism. The objective? To determine how much oxygen is consumed during respiration by these peas over a given amount of time. The experiment includes 2 experimental set-ups and 1 control set up. The rate of respiration will be measured in germinating peas and in dry peas that are dormant. The peas will be placed inside a device known as a respirometer. To insure equal volume in each set-up, the volume of germinating peas is first determined by water displacement. An equal number of dry peas will be used and the volume will be made equal by the addition of small glass beads. The third respirometer will contain an equal volume of glass beads only. The respirometers are assembled as seen in the photo to the left. The essential components of the experiment include: 1. Respirometers are assembled and placed in a large pan of water. 2. As oxygen is consumed by the seeds, the water will be drawn into the pipets. This can be measured with the calibrate pipet that has been inserted into the rubber stopper. 3. Since carbon dioxide is also released during respiration, there will be no movement of water into the pipet unless this is removed as a factor affecting the experiment. A small amount of absorbent cotton is placed in the bottom of the vial. This cotton is saturated with KOH. As carbon dioxide is released by the respiring peas, it reacts with KOH to form solid potassium carbonate. This removes the carbon dioxide and allows only the oxygen to be measured. 4. Measurements will be taken every 5 minutes for some length of time. Since we have a long lab period, we were able to set up the experiment and then allow it to run for 30 minutes. This lab has all the best components of a lab: Easy set-up! Easy clean-up! No fancy equipment required! Works every time! Kids love it! Happy Teaching!!

Cet ouvrage, qui contient de nombreuses figures, schémas réactionnels, tableaux et encadrés, décrit les aspects fondamentaux de la cinétique enzymatique. Il retrace le contexte historique et l'évolution des connaissances en enzymologie. Il détaille : les relations structure-fonction entre l'enzyme, le substrat et différents types d'effecteurs les effets de divers paramètres physico-chimiques sur la vitesse des réactions enzymatiques les modes de régulation de l'activité des enzymes, en particulier l'allostérie et la fixation coopérative d'effecteurs le fonctionnement et la régulation des enzymes de la glycolyse dans le contexte cellulaire les méthodes modernes pour l'étude des enzymes et de leur activité. Enfin, la plupart des notions abordées sont illustrées par des exercices et le dernier chapitre est consacré à une correction détaillée de ces exercices.

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La nouveauté de ce livre est que la photophysique de l'état excité de diverses molécules de médicaments dans un environnement microhétérogène à la lumière de l'ombre de l'état d'équilibre, la fluorescence résolue dans le temps, l'anisotropie résolue dans le temps, la RMN, la diffusion dynamique de la lumière, les techniques d'imagerie confocale de fluorescence. Les efforts actuels aident les chercheurs dans les applications potentielles de nombreux phénomènes en biochimie et en biologie médicinale.

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Have you ever told your students to "find a partner," and 10 minutes later, after chaos and bickering, you regret that decision? Yeah, we've all been there. A quick solution to that is to print these free partner cards. There are 22 cards total. Simple print (in color or B/W), cut, and place in a basket of sorts. For a quick routine, I have students move around the room to find their partners once the music starts, then stand by their partner with their cards facing me once they've found each other. Have more than 22 students? No worries! Simply print duplicate sets of these cards. I hope these cards are something you can easily implement in your classrooms! You can click the link here to download this free resource.

This session provides foundational knowledge around the biology of sleep, including factors which can influence our sleep/wake cycle, sleep benefits, twenty different suggestions to improve sleep hygiene and a sleep tracking worksheet to record sleep data . Suggestions include those backed by robust evidence based as well as several creative alternatives with smaller bodies of research. They aim to be varied, accessible and achievable for young people. Teaching clients to better understand sleep processes and implement more effective sleep practices recognises the common link between chronic sleep disturbance and psychopathology, and in the short term may influence things like emotional regulation, cognitive function, even pain and distress tolerance. You will receive printable PDF's in US Letter (8.5 x 11 inches) and A4 (8.3 x 11.7 inches) sizes for the three resources, as well as a digital pdf including a brief rationale and a "how to" for the product. A full list of references used can also be found at the end of this information. Purchases are for personal and professional use for one only - they are not for redistribution with the exception of to clients. Each download grants the exclusive digital license to one person. We do hope you like our resources. If you have any questions about our product or would like further information feel free to reach out to us anytime using the below email! Hello [!at] feeels.org Last updated: 17th July 2024

One of my least favorite parts of biology to teach is taxonomy. I admit it. I’m a logic and problem-solving girl. I like genetics. Biochem. But taxonomy? Ugh. I understand it’s important to organize information about the organisms that exist on Earth. But I hate teaching it because I feel like it is such a […]