The Life Science Lessons Bundle is perfect for you if:

• You don’t have a textbook.
• You don’t like using your textbook
• You need NGSS aligned, TEKS aligned or Florida standards aligned lessons
• You want your lessons to be engaging and help find gaps in student knowledge
• You love no-prep resources
• You use interactive science notebooks
• You use Google Classroom and want your lessons to be compatible.

The PowerPoint Life Science Lessons are broken up into 4 different parts:

Engage: This is a question that is used to get students thinking and engaged before the lesson begins. They answer the question in their guided notes.

Checkpoints: These are questions throughout the lesson that assess what students are learning as they go through. The student’s answer these

questions in their guided notes. Answer key is included in the PowerPoint.

↵ Bringing it Back: This final question wraps up the lesson by tying student’s new knowledge with the engagement piece.

✐Summarize! Students can summarize their learning by writing, drawing or both.

A link for the Google Slides version is included in the resource. The PowerPoint is editable. The titles, images and clip art are not editable.

Guided Notes:

The Cornell style guided notes follow along with the lesson. This allows the students to go through the lesson with the class as the teacher goes through the slides or they can fill it out independently if they are using the PowerPoint digitally. All the text aside from the title and cover page are editable. Includes two cover pages for interactive notebook booklets. One in color and one in black and white.

The Google Slides versions of the notes include text boxes for students to add in their own text. A Google Slides “toolbox” is included for students to reference to for changing fonts, adding images, drawings, etc. There are even drag and drop highlighter marks for students to make their notes more interactive. *There is an included answer key for the guided notes to be easily printed and added to a teacher’s copy of an interactive science notebook.

Assessment:

The assessments contains 20 questions with a mix of vocabulary matching, short answer and multiple choice questions. An answer key is included. Everything is editable except for the title and any included clip art lip art. A Google Slides version is included as well as a self-grading Google Forms version. The links are included in the resource.

Topics covered:

Nature Of Science

Human Body Systems

Cell Theory & Cell Characteristics

Cell Organelles

Cell Division: Mitosis &Meiosis

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction

DNA and Protein Synthesis

Heredity & Inheritance

Classification of Organisms

Evolution & Natural Selection

Introduction to Ecology

Interactions of Organisms

Energy Transfer in Ecosystems

Photosynthesis & Cellular Respiration

Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering

Looking for activities to use with these lessons? Check out the Life Science Activities bundle!

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Aligns to Florida Biology standard:

SC.912.L.15.8 Describe the scientific explanations of the origin of life on Earth.

The Earth’s History and Origins of Life Lesson Lesson and guided notes are broken up into 4 different parts:

Engage: This is a question that is used to get students thinking and engaged before the lesson begins. They answer the question in their guided notes.
Checkpoints: These are questions throughout the lesson that assess what students are learning as they go through. The student’s answer these questions in their guided notes. Answer key is included in the PowerPoint.
↵ Bringing it Back: This final question wraps up the lesson by tying student’s new knowledge with the engagement piece.

✐Summarize! Students can summarize their learning by writing, drawing or both.

All links for the Google Slides and Google Forms are included in the resource.

The PowerPoint is editable. The titles, images and clip art are not editable.

Guided Notes:

The Cornell style guided notes follow along with the lesson. This allows the students to go through the lesson with the class as the teacher goes through the slides or they can fill it out independently if they are using the PowerPoint digitally. All the text aside from the title and cover page are editable.

Includes two cover pages for interactive notebook booklets. One in color and one in black and white.

The Google Slides version of the notes includes text boxes for students to add in their own text. A Google Slides “toolbox” is included for students to reference to for changing fonts, adding images, drawings, etc. There are even drag and drop highlighter marks for students to make their notes more interactive.

*There is an included answer key for the guided notes to be easily printed and added to a teacher’s copy of an interactive science notebook.

Assessment:

The assessment contains 20 questions with a mix of vocabulary matching, short answer and multiple choice questions. An answer key is included. Everything is editable except for the title and any included clip art lip art.

A Google Slides version is included as well as a self-grading Google Forms version. The links are included in the resource.

Content covered:

How was Earth Formed?

 Conditions on Early Earth

 Miller-Urey Experiment

 Primordial Soup

 Abiogenesis

 Endosymbionts

 Role of Microbes in Shaping Life on Earth

 Where were the earliest cells formed?

*Each resource is in PDF and PowerPoint format for easy editing.

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Includes a reading for students to learn about interactions of marine organisms in the ocean and how transfer of energy occurs. This can help students complete many of the slides.

With these coral reefs activities, students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand/label visual representations and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. See the preview to get a better idea of how each slide works.

The slides and print version are not editable. An answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:

What are coral reefs?

What are the ideal conditions for coral reef growth?

How do coral reefs grow?

Types of reefs (barrier, fringing, atoll)

Hermatypic coral (reef-building)

The diversity of coral reef ecosystems

Human Impact on coral reefs (bleaching & ocean acidification)

Coral reefs in the economy, medicine, coastline protection, etc.

*Please note that this is not an editable resource*

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The 7 types of stations include:

1. Discover – Students will research information about Newton’s Laws and how astronauts experience each of them in microgravity.

2. Observe – Students will push an empty cart and then push a cart full of heavy objects to explain Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion.

3. Experiment – Students will perform a mini experiment in which they use a balloon, straw and tape to demonstrate Newton’s 3rd Law.

4. Write – Students will explain their answers in 2-3 sentences.

5. Create – Students will draw an example of each of Newton’s Laws of Motion and explain it.

6. Sort – Students will sort scenarios to match the appropriate law of motion.

7. Quiz – Students will answer a mix of 8 true/false, multiple choice and short answer questions.

*Each station should take students between 8-10 minutes to complete.*

The RESOURCE includes:

• Digital Google Slides link to perform stations online.
• Printable version of stations in color and black/white
• Editable PowerPoint version of stations.

Content covered:

Newton’s 1st Law of Motion

Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion

Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion

*Please note that the instructions for stations are editable but clip art, special fonts and formatting are not.*

Check out these Changes in States of Matter Stations – Editable and Google Slides if you’re looking for stations for your matter unit!

Want to learn how to better pace your physical science course? Check out the free physical science pacing guide here.

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