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Inheritance & Heredity Warm Ups or Exit Tickets – Editable – Punnett Squares

Michelle Rudolph — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:55:42 +0000

2 weeks of editable Inheritance and heredity warm ups. These could also be used as exit tickets! Digital or print versions are perfect for a reproduction and heredity unit in your Life Science or Biology class with no prep! Use these as bell ringers to get your students ready for the day or end the class with a ticket out the door. Google Slides versions are also included for online learning!

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

There are 3 ways to use these editable warm ups/exit tickets:

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 Heredity warm ups resource:
2 weeks of warm ups/exit tickets (10 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:
Heredity

Traits

Genetics

Genes

Alleles

Phenotype

Genotype

Dominant traits

Recessive traits

Homozygous and heterozygous

Environmental Factors on traits

Punnett Squares

Pedigrees

Incomplete Dominance/Codominance

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Inheritance and Heredity Task Cards – Editable & Google Forms

Michelle Rudolph — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:48:29 +0000

These 24 inheritance and heredity task cards can be used in a classroom or digitally for distance learning through Google Forms with no prep. They are editable and even self-grading! Perfect for a Life Science or Biology class. They can be easily printed, cut and laminated for use in the classroom with a ready-to-print student answer sheet.

Review vocabulary and key concepts related to inheritance and heredity. The link for Google Forms is available in the resource. An answer key is included in the resource and in Google Forms.

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 notebooks.

*Please note that the text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable.

Content covered in the Heredity task cards:
Heredity

Traits

Genetics

Genes

Alleles

Phenotype

Genotype

Dominant traits

Recessive traits

Homozygous and heterozygous

Environmental Factors on traits

Punnett Squares

Pedigree

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Winter and Christmas Science Stations Lab – Editable & Digital – Middle School Science

Michelle Rudolph — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:58:48 +0000

Do you need differentiated Winter and Christmas Science Stations Lab for your middle school science class? Perfect for a middle school physical science, life science or Earth/Space science class. This resource will help you reach and assess your students in a multitude of ways. This resource includes 8 stations with minimal prep involved.

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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Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction Unit Bundle

Michelle Rudolph — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:26:45 +0000

This asexual vs sexual Reproduction unit bundle is perfect for introducing and reviewing a unit on reproduction. This bundle is great for a life science or biology class. The unit bundle contains a PowerPoint Lesson, Guided Notes, Assessment, self-grading task cards, choice board, warm ups, stations activities, print activities and digital interactive lessons that can all be used with Google Slides or Google forms!

Content covered in this asexual vs sexual Reproduction unit:
Sexual Reproduction (Meiosis, feralization, zygote)

Genetic variation

Asexual Reproduction

Budding

Binary fission

Spores

Vegetative reproduction

Advantages of sexual reproduction

Disadvantages of sexual reproduction

Advantages of asexual reproduction

Included in the Bundle:

1. PowerPoint Lesson, Guided Notes & Assessment

Do you need a resource to introduce reproduction of organisms to your life science or biology class? This resource contains a PowerPoint 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.

2. Google Slides & Print Activities

This is a print and digital interactive science notebook resource that uses Google Slides. There are 8 interactive reproduction in organisms activities. These activities are perfect for a Life Science or middle school biology class with no prep! Perfect for online learning or in-person instruction.

Use these activities for:

Sub Plans
Test Prep (Florida SSA, Texas STAAR, NGSS)
Online Learning
Homework
Independent review
Stations
Interactive Notebook Activity
Early Finishers

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.

3. Choice Board Project

4. Interactive Stations

Do you need differentiated Sexual and Asexual reproduction stations activities for your reproduction unit? Perfect for a middle school Life science class. This resource will help you reach and assess your students in a multitude of ways. This resource includes 7 stations with minimal prep involved. There is a printable version, editable PowerPoint version and a Digital Google Slides version that will help you save on time and paper!

The 7 types of Cell Characteristics and Cell Theory stations include:

1. Discover – Students will research real-world application of asexual reproduction.

2. Observe – Students will observe a plant that can propagate.

3. Experiment – Students will genetic variation through a coin flip activity.

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

5. Create – Students will create a Venn diagram that compares asexual and sexual reproduction.

6. Sort – Students will terms, processes and organism examples related to both forms of reproduction.

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.*

This resource includes:

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

5. Task Cards

These 24 asexual and sexual reproduction task cards can be used in a classroom or digitally for distance learning through Google Forms with no prep. They are editable and even self-grading! Perfect for a Life Science or Biology class. They can be easily printed, cut and laminated for use in the classroom with a ready-to-print student answer sheet.

Review vocabulary and key concepts related to asexual reproduction and sexual reproduction. The link for Google Forms is available in the resource. An answer key is included in the resource and in Google Forms.

*Please note that the text is editable in each task card but the titles and clip art are not editable.

6. Warm Ups/Exit Tickets

2 weeks of editable reproduction warm ups about asexual and sexual reproduction. These could also be used as exit tickets! Digital or print versions are perfect for a reproduction unit in your Life Science or Biology class with no prep! Use these as bellrinrs to get your students ready for the day or end the class with a ticket out the door. Google Slides versions are also included for online learning!

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

There are 3 ways to use these editable warm ups/exit tickets:

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

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:
2 weeks of warm ups/exit tickets (10 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

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Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction Warm Ups / Exit Tickets

Michelle Rudolph — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:13:04 +0000

2 weeks of editable Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction Warm Ups about reproduction in organisms. These could also be used as exit tickets! Digital or print versions are perfect for a reproduction unit in your Life Science or Biology class with no prep! Use these as bellringers to get your students ready for the day or end the class with a ticket out the door. Google Slides versions are also included for online learning!

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

There are 3 ways to use these editable warm ups/exit tickets:

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

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.*

Content covered:
What are cells?

What are Eukaryotic Cells?

Structures all eukaryotic cells have (DNA, cell membrane, cytoplasm, organelles)

Plant and animal cell organelles (mitochondria, ribosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus)

Plant cell organelles (cell wall, large central vacuole, chloroplast)

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Related Resources on TPT:

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Lesson, Guided Notes & Assessment

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Warm Ups

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Task Cards

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Stations

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Activities

Asexual and Sexual Reproduction Choice Board

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Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction Stations Activities

Michelle Rudolph — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:46:40 +0000

Do you need differentiated Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction Stations Activities for your reproduction unit? Perfect for a middle school Life science class. This resource will help you reach and assess your students in a multitude of ways. This resource includes 7 stations with minimal prep involved. There is a printable version, editable PowerPoint version and a Digital Google Slides version that will help you save on time and paper!

The 7 types of Asexual vs Sexual Reproduction Stations Activities include: