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Unit Plan
BBSRC

Discovering DNA: The Recipe for Life

For Teachers 4th - 9th Standards
A pinch of adenine, a dash of thymine and ta-da, you have life! Well, it's not quite that simple, but through this series of activities and experiments young scientists learn about the structure of DNA and how it contains the recipe for...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Basic Units of Life

For Students 6th - 12th
In this cells activity, students will review vocabulary words and information relating to the structure and function of plant and animal cells. This activity has 10 crossword puzzle questions, 6 multiple choice, 4 short answer questions,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"What If?" A Jigsaw Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in groups, consider a scenario in which some structure of a cell has been changed. They explore how structural change affects the function of a cell and create a visual aid to illustrate their observations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Photocells II: The Photoelectric Effect in Photocells

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers discuss the principles of atomic structure that underlie the operation of a photovoltaic cell and explains how they apply to a photovoltaic cell's operation. An area of the classroom is staked off to represent a...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chancing it

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine different transplant types and estimate the possible outcomes.  In this biology lesson students discuss donors and transplants then divide into groups and complete a worksheet.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making Blood!

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders study facts about human blood and what it is made of.  In this blood composition instructional activity students divide into groups and complete several activities. 
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Chromosome Karyotyping

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore chromosome karyotyping. In this chromosome karyotyping lesson plan, students use a chromosome kit to explore chromosome syndromes and disorders. They also produce a large model of a cell with chromosome to simulate cell...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Sets of Chromosomes

For Students 9th - 12th
In this chromosome worksheet, high schoolers answer eighteen questions about chromatids, chromosomes, types of reproduction, haploid and diploid cells and zygotes.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Mitosis: Divide to Survive

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners identify the purpose of cellular mitosis. They work in groups of four to use images of animal and plant cell mitosis to illustrate each step in the mitosis process on their graphic organizer.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cell Growth and Division

For Students 9th
In this biology learning exercise, 9th graders label the diagrams with the appropriate phase of mitosis illustrated. Then they explain why skin cell undergo mitosis continuously. Students also explain why mitosis is a form of asexual...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Control of the Cell Cycle

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
In this cell cycle worksheet, students will study genetic factors and environmental factors that affect the cell cycle. Students will use this idea map to complete 4 short answer questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

How Cells Do Their Jobs

For Students 9th - 12th
In this cells worksheet, students will review cell characteristics and structure and different types of cells and what role they play in the body. Students will investigate experimental results of the influence of sucrose on the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cell Transport

For Students 9th
In this biology worksheet, 9th graders describe what osmosis is and how it explains the fact tat a watery syrup forms when you put sugar on strawberries. Then they describe how proteins made by ribosomes leave the cell. Students also...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Number of Cell phones in Use Per Household

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this cell phones worksheet, students study a bar graph of the number of cell phones usage in households. Students answer 5 questions about the graph.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Pattern Using Unit Cells

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the pattern of the unit cell. In this science lesson, students color the unit cells on a worksheet and create a pattern using unit cells.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Cell Cycle and Cancer

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students compare and contrast the cell cycle of frog eggs, normal cells, and cancer cells. They watch a video about early development of the frog embryo, generate a hypothesis in small groups, and listen to a teacher-led lecture. ...
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PPT
Biology Corner

Meiosis

For Students 9th - 12th
Does day one of meiosis in your biology classroom make you wanna split? Get the class off to a great start using this attractive and thoughtfully worded slideshow. In addition to explaining what happens during each step of meiosis,...
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eBook
Open Oregon Educational Resources

General Biology II: Survey of Molecular Life and Genetics (Mt. Hood Community College Biology 102)

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
What could be more real life than a biology course? Mt. Hood Community College offers a complete biology textbook with an emphasis on genetics. Topics range from DNA replication to biotechnology and inheritance patterns.
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AP Test Prep
College Board

2017 AP® Biology Free-Response Questions

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
With AP Biology remaining the most popular AP science exam, many teachers need help preparing. The College Board offers the actual free-response questions from the 2017 test covering pollination, germination, and more. Scholars learn the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Living Environment

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this environment worksheet young scholars complete a series of multiple choice and short answer questions on organisms, reproduction, DNA and cell division.
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Organizer
Curated OER

Mitosis and Meiosis Comparison

For Students 7th - 12th
This t-chart provides a graphic organizer for pupils to list similarities and differences between the two types of cell division. There are no instructions on the handout, so more concrete thinkers may need a little guidance.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mitosis and Meiosis

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Pupils model and differentiate between the processes of mitosis and meiosis. In partners, they use yarn and construction paper to create models for each of the phases of mitosis and meiosis then compare the chromosome numbers in each...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Algae Blooms

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your microbiologists explore a changing algae population and build an exponential function modeling algae concentration from the description given of the relationship between concentrations in cells/ml and days of rapid growth.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Basic Human Inheritance Patterns

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students study the stages of the cell division (meiosis) which results in the formation of gametes and study topics as crossing over, gene linkage, and human inheritance patterns in certain diseases.

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