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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These exit tickets are colorful, visually appealing and come 4 to a page do they’re easy to cut out and give to students at the end of a lesson. They can even be glued into interactive science notebooks!

What is included?

• 32 Editable Exit Tickets in PPT format & PDF for printing
• Editable Google Slides version for online learning (link included in the resource)
• Answer Key
• Teacher notes

Content covered:

Graphs, charts and tables

Lab Equipment

Lab safety symbols

Scientific method

Engineering design process

Variables

Reading a graduated cylinder

Reading a thermometer

*Please note that the questions are editable but special fonts, clip art and some formatting are not.*

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Each question is in short or long response format so students explain the topic and their understanding.

There are 3 ways to use these editable warm ups:

1. Use them with slides as students fill out the answers on their own personal answer sheet.

2. Use the answer sheets with the questions on them without the slides. I personally have my students hole punch them each week to add into a pronged folder or binder to use as a study tool. You can even print them at 90% so students can glue them into their interactive science notebooks!

3. Use them for online learning or digitally with the Google Slides version. This is also perfect for digital interactive student notebooks.

A PowerPoint version is included for editing and a PDF version is included for easy printing.

*The questions are editable but the fonts and clip art are not due to copyright.*

Included in this resource:
4 weeks of warm ups (20 total).
3 editable templates to fit the needs of you and your students
PowerPoint Slides with the questions to project for your students
Answer key

Content covered:

Experiments vs Observations

Creating a Hypothesis

Variables (Independent, Dependent, Constant)

Data (qualitative vs quantitative)

Scientific Method Steps

Repetition vs. Replication

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This can be printed so that there are two to one page to save paper!

Students will:
Create a hypothesis
Gather data
Graph data
Draw conclusions
Review the importance of repetition within an experiment

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• Scientific Method: Effervescent/Alka-Seltzer Quick Lab

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This choice board is editable to suit the needs of you and your students. Students can also submit most of the activities digitally through Google Classroom or Canvas. The title and clip art are not editable.

General teacher directions and the choice board are included in PowerPoint format for easy editing. There are no rubrics included within the resource for their individual choice activities.

2 files included: PowerPoint for easy editing and PDF for printing.

*Only the choice options are editable. Fonts and clip art are not editable due to copyright.*

Options include:
Creating a video or skit.
Creating a poster
PowerPoint Lesson
Social Media post
Designing an experiment
Rap or poem
and more!

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• Scientific Method: Effervescent/Alka-Seltzer Quick Lab

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The link for Google Forms is available in the resource as well as an answer key.

Task cards can be printed 1 per page or 4 per page. The answer sheet can be printed 1 per page or 2 per page to save paper. I typically print 2 per page so they’re perfect for gluing into interactive science notebooks.

The text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable. The task cards are images in google forms so they are not editable if you are using the digital option.

Content covered:
Experiments vs Observations
Creating a Hypothesis
Variables (Independent, Dependent, Constant)
Data (qualitative vs quantitative)
Scientific Method Steps
Repetition vs. Replication

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• Scientific Investigations & Inquiry PowerPoint, Notes and Quiz online Learning
• Scientific Investigations and Inquiry Editable Choice Board – online Learning
• Scientific Investigations and Inquiry Editable Warm-ups – online Learning
• Scientific Method Ball Bounce Lab
• Scientific Method: Effervescent/Alka-Seltzer Quick Lab

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This resource contains a PowerPoint nature of science lesson with Cornell notes style guided notes and an assessment that all tie together. This resource is excellent for traditional and digital interactive science notebooks. The PowerPoint and guided notes are also included in Google Slides which make this a perfect digital resource for online learning! There is also a self-grading Google Forms assessment. This is a no prep resource!

The PowerPoint 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:
Experiments vs Observations
Creating a Hypothesis
Variables (Independent, Dependent, Constant)
Data (qualitative vs quantitative)
Scientific Method Steps
Repetition vs. Replication

*The Guided Notes and Assessment are included in PDF and PowerPoint format for easy editing.

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Students will review vocabulary relating to scientific investigations, practice using real-world examples, identify independent and dependent variables in scientific investigations and design a quick investigation of their own. The nature of science activities include either drag and drop or short answer text.

Each activity can be projected on a smart board for added whole-group engagement or can be used in a stations style format to have students walk around the room to complete the 6 different activities.

Print in “booklet” format to easily add the print activities to traditional interactive science notebooks or add them to students digital interactive notebooks through Google Slides.

The slides and PDF are not editable. Answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

Content covered:

Experiments vs Observations

Creating a Hypothesis

Variables (Independent, Dependent, Constant)

Scientific Method Steps

Try a free Scientific Variables digital Google Slides and Print Activity to see how these activities work!

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Content covered:
Experiments vs Observations
Creating a Hypothesis
Variables (Independent, Dependent, Constant)
Data (qualitative vs quantitative)
Scientific Method Steps
Repetition vs. Replication

This bundle includes:

1. PowerPoint Lesson, Guided Notes and Assessment

Do you need a resource to introduce scientific method, scientific investigations and inquiry? This resource contains a PowerPoint with guided notes and an assessment that all tie together. The PowerPoint and assessment are also available in Google Slides which make this a perfect digital resource for online learning!

The PowerPoint is broken up into 3 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.

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 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.

*There is no answer key for the guided notes as it is all in the PowerPoint lesson. There is no Google Slides or digital option for the guided notes.

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. The link is in the resource.

2. Warm Ups

4 weeks of editable warm up slides, digital or print versions are perfect for the scientific method unit in your classroom with no prep! Everything is also available in the resource for online learning with digital versions in google slides.

Included in this resource:
4 weeks of warm ups (20 total).
3 editable templates to fit the needs of you and your students
PowerPoint Slides with the questions to project for your students
Answer key

3. Task Cards

These 24 scientific method, scientific investigations and inquiry task cards can be used in a classroom or digitally for online learning through Google Forms with no prep and self grading! They can be easily printed, cut and laminated for use in the classroom with a ready-to-print student answer sheet.

The link for Google Forms is available in the resource as well as an answer key.

Task cards can be printed 1 per page or 4 per page. The answer sheet can be printed 1 per page or 2 per page to save paper. I typically print 2 per page so they’re perfect for gluing into interactive science notebooks.

The text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable. The task cards are images in google forms so they are not editable if you are using the digital option.

4. Digital Google Slides and Print Activities

This is a print and digital resource that uses Google Slides. There are 6 interactive activities to review scientific investigations and the scientific method.

Students will review vocabulary, real-world examples, independent and dependent variables and design a quick investigation.

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

The slides are not editable. Answer key is included in the PDF as well as the Google Slides link.

5. Ball Bounce Lab

This is a simple, quick lab used to go over scientific method, investigations and inquiry. Students will test to see which ball has the highest rebound height. They will need a meter stick, tennis ball, bouncing ball and a golf ball.

This can be printed so that there are two to one page to save paper!

Students will:
Create a hypothesis
Gather data
Graph data
Draw conclusions
Review the importance of repetition within an experiment

6. Alka-Seltzer Lab

This can be used as a quick, hands-on lab activity to review the scientific method. Students will use the scientific method to determine how quickly an evervescent/Alka-Seltzer will dissolve in white vinegar, salt water and tap water.

Students will be able to:
Create a hypothesis
Gather and record data
Analyze data
Draw conclusions

7. Choice Board

Students have options in how they apply their knowledge of scientific method, investigations and inquiry through choice. There is differentiation with the activities so students can have autonomy with their learning and presentation of knowledge.

This choice board is editable to suit the needs of you and your students. Students can also submit most of the activities digitally through Google Classroom or Canvas. The title and clip art are not editable.

General teacher directions and the choice board are included in PowerPoint format for easy editing. There are no rubrics included within the resource for their individual choice activities.

Options include:

Creating a video or skit.

Creating a poster

PowerPoint Lesson

Social Media post

Designing an experiment

Rap or poem

and more!

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