Rice University
Biology for AP® Courses
An eight-unit electronic textbook provides a guide to AP® Biology. Each of the 28 chapters include an introduction, multiple lessons, a summary, review questions, and test prep questions. Teachers see how each lesson connects to a big...
Pace University
Grade 6-8 Living Things
What characterizes a living thing? Scholars explore the concept during a differentiated instruction unit on living things. They perform lab experiments to determine how animals adapt to stimuli, watch videos and learn about...
American Museum of Natural History
What's This? Reproduction
Attracting the right mate is as important for humans as any other species. An interesting lesson teaches individuals about several strategies that animals and plants have adapted to attract their mates. From colorful nests to powerful...
BC Open Textbooks
Concepts of Biology – 1st Canadian Edition
How diverse are living things? Individuals explore topics such as cells as the foundation for life, cell division and genetics, molecular biology, and animal reproduction using an open resource Biology textbook. They learn key terms...
Utah Education Network (UEN)
Utah Open Textbook: Biology
Curriculum resources can be expensive—but not this one. An online textbook offers informational text for a complete high school Biology course. Topics include energy flow, body system, genetics, and evolution.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Cuban Crab Migration
In this video segment from Nature, crabs face numerous obstacles in their migration from their forest home to the Caribbean Sea. [4:09]
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Pass It On!
"Pass It On!" will enhance learning about genetics. Delve into activities addressing traits, DNA, sexual and asexual reproduction.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Single Cell to Embryo
Watch this brief animation of the process of a zebrafish egg developing from a single cell into an embryo in 50 hours. Click on other links to watch animations of a zebrafish cell division, migration and differentiation.
University of California
Berkeley Edu: Animal Behavior [Pdf]
Observable coordinated responses to stimuli. Originates with genes that direct the formation of tissues and organs of the animal body (nervous & endocrine systems).
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: El Mantenimiento De La Especie
Learn about animal and plant reproduction: similarities and differences, coordination, relationship and adaptation.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Science in Paradise: Turtle Travels
Explore how different factors affect temperature and relate this to whether a baby turtle will be male or female. Investigate reproductive strategies of selected organisms, and list the pros and cons of different reproductive behaviors.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Reproductive Behavior of Animals
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of the reproductive behaviors of animals.