There is a printable version, editable PowerPoint version and a Digital Google Slides version that will help you save on time and paper!

The 9 Winter and Christmas Science Stations included are:

1. Ice Insulation – Students will explore how quickly ice melts using various insulators.

2. Candy Cane Reactions – Students will explore the dissolving rate of candy canes with different temperatures of water.

3. Holiday Light Interactions – Students will explore refraction and reflection using holiday lights, mirrors and water.

4. Christmas Tree Life Cycle – Students will discuss how spruce trees contribute to ecology throughout their life cycle.

5. Reindeer Adaptations – Students will explain adaptations that reindeers have.

6. Tundra Food Web – Students will organize a tundra food web and identify producers and consumers.

7. Winter Weather – Students will observe a weather map and answer questions about winter weather.

8. Holiday Treat Layers of Earth – Students will identify types of holiday foods that could be used to represent different layers of Earth.

9. Snow in the Water Cycle – Students will answer questions about snow within the water cycle.

*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:

Heat transfer and insulation

Interactions of matter and heat induced changes

Light waves (reflection and refraction)

Life cycles, ecology

Weather and Earth’s systems

Food webs, producers, consumers

Weather and Earth’s Systems

Earth’s layers

The water cycle

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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

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The Ecology 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:

What is Ecology?

What is an Ecosystem?

Abiotic and biotic factors

Levels of organization in an ecosystem

Habitats

Niche

Succession (primary vs secondary)

Limiting factors

Carrying capacity

Biotic potential

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

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand 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:
Vocabulary (predator, prey, symbiosis, competition, mutualism, parasitism, commensalism)

Identifying and explaining mutualism, commensalism and parasitism
Analyzing and identifying competition in an ecosystem

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand 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:
Vocabulary (producer, food chain, consumer, decomposer, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore, food web)

Analyzing Food Webs
Creating Food webs

Trophic Pyramids

Identifying Producers, Consumers and Decomposers

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections, research independently, understand 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:
Vocabulary (community, ecosystem, habitat, species, niche, population, biotic factor, abiotic factor)

Identifying factors in an ecosystem
Levels of organization in Ecology

Primary and secondary succession

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Students will practice vocabulary skills, make real-world connections and review concepts.

The activities include either drag and drop or short answer text. Watch the preview videos to get a better idea of how each resource works,

The slides and print versions are not editable. An answer key is included in all of the PDF files as well as the Google Slides links.

Content covered:
Scientific Investigations and Inquiry

Levels of Organization

Cell Theory and Cell Characteristics

Cell Organelles and Homeostasis

Classification of Organisms

Human Body Systems and Homeostasis

Evolution and Natural Selection

Mitosis and Meiosis

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction

Energy Transfer in Ecosystems

Interactions of Living Things

Introduction to Ecology and Succession

Heredity and Punnett Squares

Photosynthesis and Cellular Respiration

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