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 Halloween science stations included are:

1. Batty Limbs – Students will compare bat limbs to human limbs to describe homologous structures.

2. Ghoul’s Goo – Students will explore states of matter with oobleck.

3. Disappearing Candy Corn – Students will explore physical changes with dissolving candy corn in warm water,

4. Pumpkin Mass & Weight – Students will obtain the mass and weight of a mini pumpkin to explore the difference between both measurements in matter.

5. Spider Ecology – Students will discuss the ecology of spiders and their role in the ecosystem.

6. Sweet Erosion – Students will perform a mini experiment in which they simulate erosion with sugar cubes and a spray bottle.

7. Moon Phases – Students will identify different phases of the moon in the lunar cycle. Students will also research to see what phase the moon will be on Halloween night.

8. Monster Genetics – Students will create their own monster using Punnett squares.

9. Candy Rock Cycle – Students will simulate the rock cycle using candy.

*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:

Evolution, Common Ancestors and Homologous structures

States of Matter

Physical Changes

Mass and Weight in Matter

Ecology, Food Webs, Food Chains

Erosion and Weathering

Moon Phases / Lunar Cycle

Punnett Squares / heredity

Rock Cycle ( Igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary )

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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 Natural Selection and Evolution 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 40 questions with a mix of vocabulary matching, short answer, true/false 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:

Charles Darwin

Theory of Evolution

Natural Selection

Variations and Types of Adaptations

Extinction

Homologous, Analogous and Vestigial Structures

Developmental Biology (Embryos) as

Evidence for evolution

Molecular biology (DNA) as evidence for Evolution

Types of Fossils

Geologic Time Scale

Absolute vs Relative Dating

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

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