Welcome to my shop! I love being able to help other teachers during the year when they have so many things on their plate.
I have taught both high school and junior high school science. I was also a scientist for a few years before I decided to teach. It made teaching very interesting and the students loved the stories.
I hope I have a little something for you all!
Welcome to my shop! I love being able to help other teachers during the year when they have so many things on their plate.
I have taught both high school and junior high school science. I was also a scientist for a few years before I decided to teach. It made teaching very interesting and the students loved the stories.
I hope I have a little something for you all!
You will receive 26 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about the important people of Biology.
Vocabulary Included:
Albert Sabin
Alexander Fleming
Anton von Leeuwenhoek
Aristotle
Carolus Linnaeus
Charles Darwin
Donald Johanson
Edward Jenner
Erwin Chargaff
Francis Crick
Gregor Mendel
James Watson
Jane Goodall
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
John Needham
Jonas Salk
Karl Landsteiner
Louis Pasteur
Lynn Margulis
Mary Leakey
Paul Ehrlich
Robert Hooke
Robert Koch
Rosalind Franklin
Thomas Hunt Morgan
William Harvey
Students will learn how a simple change in DNA can cause a change in a trait. They will receive ‘fake’ mutations that cause them to hold a pencil/pen in a different way.
You will receive a teacher page with objectives, benchmarks, pre and post activity questions, and vocabulary.
You will receive 36 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about the types of science.
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
I am able to customize vocabulary cards for any topic. Please let me know if you are looking for something specific.
You will receive a PPT and PDF version of the slide show.
This 40 slide PPT covers
Pedigree chart basic information
How to read a pedigree chart
Male and female
P and F generations
Numbering
Shading
Step by step process of a trait moving through the pedigree
Incudes questions for students to answer
The 4 types of pedigree charts
Sex-linked (I focus on X-linked in this slide show)
Dominant and recessive
Autosomal
Dominant and recessive
You will receive a PPT and PDF copy of this slide show.
This 24 slide PPT covers
The discovery of DNA with Rosalind Franklin’s X-ray image and Watson and Crick’s DNA description
DNA structure
Double helix
Nucleotides
Deoxyribose and phosphate group
Nitrogenous bases
Purines (Adenine and Thymine)
Pyrimidines (Cytosine and Guanine)
RNA structure
Single stranded
Ribose
Uracil (a pyrimidine)
RNA and DNA comparison image
Types of RNA (mRNA, tRNA, and rRNA)
You will receive 44 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about atoms, bonding, and the periodic table.
You will receive a PDF copy.
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
I am able to customize vocabulary cards for any topic. Please let me know if you are looking for something specific.
This is a hands on activity where students will be manipulating the organelles found in a cell during Interphase, Meiosis I, Meiosis II, and Cytokinesis.
You will receive a PDF version of the Meiosis Manipulative Activity.
Objective:
Students will be able to identify the events that take place during Meiosis.
Each page is made to
~~Print and attach to Velcro/magnets to hang on a board for visual representation of Meiosis.
~~Can be manipulated on a table/desk for students to demonstrate the steps of Meiosis.
This can be individual student work, teacher-led, or group/station work.
This set is based on a cell with 4 chromosomes.
Three weeks of General Ecology Bellringers with handouts for student answers!
Answer Key Included
Other bellringers available:
The first week of my Scientific Method Bellringers FREE HERE
Four weeks of the Scientific Method HERE
Five weeks of the Cell HERE
Four weeks of Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration HERE
Four weeks of Biomes HERE
You will receive 15 days of bellringers/warm ups
Week 1:
Word of the Week: Ecology
Read and Respond: Ecological Organization
Compare and Contrast: Biotic and Abiotic
Problem Solving: Removing a Top Predator
Anything Goes: Symbiosis
Week 2:
Word of the Week: Population
Read and Respond: Migration
Compare and Contrast: Density Dependent and Density Independent Factors
Problem Solving: Population Density
Anything Goes: Population Growth Rate
Week 3:
Word of the Week: Trophic Level
Read and Respond: Food Chains and Food Webs
Compare and Contrast: Producers and Consumers
Problem Solving: Ecological Pyramid
Anything Goes: Consumers
You will receive a zip file of Two weeks of Genetics: DNA, RNA, and Proteins Bellringers with handouts for student answers!
Answer Key and Printable Amino Acid Chart Included
Get the Genetics Bellringers Bundle for a 20% discount
Other Bellringers available at my store:
Scientific Method, The Cell, Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration, Ecology, Biomes, DNA, RNA, and Proteins, Genetic Inheritance, Mitosis, and Meiosis.
You will receive 10 days of bellringers/warm ups
Week 1:
Word of the Week: DNA
Read and Respond: Mutations
Compare and Contrast: DNA and RNA
Problem Solving: Pairing Nucleotides
Anything Goes: Double Helix Model
Week 2:
Word of the Week: Replication
Read and Respond: Transcription and Translation
Compare and Contrast: Helicase and Polymerase
Problem Solving: Protein Synthesis
Anything Goes: Protein Synthesis
54 vocabulary cards with definitions covering terms about cells, the organelles found inside of cells and cellular transport.
Word list
Cell, Cell Membrane, Cell Wall, Centriole, Centrosome, Chlorophyll, Chloroplast, Cilia, Cytoplasm, Cytoskeleton, Eukaryote, Flagella, Golgi apparatus, Lysosome, Microtubule, Mitochondria, Multicellular, Nuclear pores, Nucleolus, Nucleus, Organelle, Prokaryote, Ribosome, Rough ER, Smooth ER, Unicellular, Vacuoles, Active Transport, Carrier Protein, Cell Wall, Channel Protein, Concentration Gradient, Cytoplasm, Diffusion, Dynamic Equilibrium, Endocytosis, Eukaryote, Exocytosis, Facilitated Diffusion, Fluid Mosaic Model, Glycoprotein, Hypertonic, Hypotonic, Isotonic, Nucleus, Osmosis, Passive Transport, Phospholipid, Plasma Membrane, Prokaryote, Receptor Protein, Selective Permeability, Transport Protein, Turgor
You can use the cards in multiple ways, including: placing them on a word wall and use them as a vocabulary review game as a whole class or as a group.
Students will describe and draw the phases of the cell cycle. They will also label the centrioles, spindle fibers, chromatin, chromosomes, and chromatids.
I also have a Meiosis Graphic Organizer available.
You will receive a PDF version of the Mitosis Graphic Organizer.
Students will describe and draw the phases of meiosis, label the centrioles, spindle fibers, chromatin, chromosomes (single and homologous), and chromatids, state the total number of cells, and state whether the phase is haploid (1n) or diploid (2n).
I also have a Mitosis Graphic Organizer available.
You will receive a PDF version of the Meiosis Graphic Organizer.
You will receive a test review questions with answer keys.
The test is multiple choice, matching, and short answer.
The review questions cover all of the material on the test:
What is a haploid cell? A diploid cell?
How many chromosomes does a human haploid cell have? A human diploid cell?
What happens during interphase and cytokinesis?
How many daughter cells are produced at the end of meiosis I? Meiosis II?
How many chromosomes do the daughter cells at the end of meiosis have compared to the parent cells?
Are cells haploid or diploid at the end of the following phases: metaphase I, anaphase I, metaphase II, and anaphase II?
What is the end product of meiosis?
Explain what happens during Prophase I and Prophase II.
Explain what happens during Metaphase I and Metaphase II.
Explain what happens during Anaphase I and Anaphase II.
Explain what happens during Telophase I and Telophase II.
What are homologous chromosomes?
Explain what crossing over is, which phase of meiosis is occurs in, and why it is important.
What is the law of independent assortment?
Draw and compare metaphase I and metaphase II.
Draw and compare anaphase I and anaphase II.
You will receive PDF and PPT versions of the Evolution and Natural Selection Slide Show.
This 26 slide PPT covers
Charles Darwin
~HMS Beagle Expedition
~The Galápagos Islands and Finches
Adaptations and Natural Selection
~Structural, Behavioral, and Physiological
~~Camouflage and Mimicry
Evolution
~Homology
~~Homologous Structures
~~Vestigial Structures
Phylogenetic Tree
Convergent Evolution
~Analogous Structures
You will receive in PDF format:
Review questions with answer key
Test with answer key
Differentiated test with answer key
The test is multiple choice, matching, and short answer.
The review questions cover all of the material on the test:
What are abiotic and biotic factors? Give 2 examples of each.
What is a niche? Name the niches you would find in an oak tree.
What is happening when an organism immigrates? Emigrates?
Give a reason why an organism would immigrate. Give a reason why an organism would emigrate.
Explain the following relationships: Commensalistic, Mutualistic, and Parasitic.
Give an example of commensalistic, mutualistic, and parasitic relationships.
What are the levels of ecological organization in order from smallest to largest? Explain each level.
How do you calculate the population growth rate of an area?
In 2015 there were 34,200 geese in the state of Washington compared to the 48,000 found in 2001. What is the population growth rate for the geese in Washington State?
What does a negative and positive population growth rate mean?
How do you calculate the population density of an area?
There are 57 goldfish in a 30L tank. What is the population density of the goldfish?
Name and define the 2 types of succession.
What is predation? Give an example.
What are the 3 types of distribution? Explain each type.
Thank you,
Wendy
This 28 slide PPT covers
Food webs
Food chains
Trophic levels
Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers etc.
Autotrophs and heterotrophs
Energy transfer through a food web
Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, decomposers, and scavengers
Ecological pyramids
Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers etc.
Passage of energy through trophic levels
Practice problem with answer
*I have a 129 slide show of 12 body systems (Circulatory, Respiratory, Digestive, Excretory, Endocrine, Nervous, Muscular, Skeletal, Integumentary, Reproductive, Lymphatic, and Immune) available for a $3.00 discount if you are looking for all of the systems.
**This is the slide show for only the Reproductive system.
You will receive a PPT and PDF copy of this slide show.
This 19 slide PPT covers the structures and functions of the reproductive system.
Structures:
~Reproductive
~~Ovary, fallopian tube, uterus, cervix, vagina, testis, prostate, urethra, penis
Functions:
~Reproductive
~~Female
~~~The function of ovaries
~~~The path of an unfertilized egg from the ovary to the vagina
~~~The path of a fertilized egg from the ovary to the vagina
~~Male
~~~The function of testes
~~~The path of sperm from the testes to the penis
You will receive a PDF of this item.
Included:
Superhero traits sheet
Genotype to phenotype problems
Phenotype to genotype problems
Identify homozygous and heterozygous problems
7 Punnett square practice problems including incomplete dominance and co-dominance
Answer key
Students will show the direction energy flows through an ecosystem by creating a food web that includes producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers.
Includes:
Food web project with detailed instructions
Differentiated food web project
Completed food web examples
2 completed rubrics
Editable rubric so you can make your own