Life Science Teaching Resources
Take your students on a life science adventure with hundreds of teacher-created printable worksheets, digital activities and more resources designed to save you time on your lesson planning!
Bring living organisms to the surface, break down the life cycles of plants and animals and teach your students how and why we classify living things with fun and engaging activities created by teachers who have been in classrooms just like yours. Aligned with the NGSS curriculum, resources in this collection have all undergone careful review by an expert science teacher on the Teach Starter team to ensure they're ready for your lesson plans and your students.
Whether you're teaching life science for the first time or just need a quick refresher on some of the major vocabulary so you have it at the tip of your tongue for teaching, we've got you covered. Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
What Is Life Science and Why Do We Teach It?
We have to start somewhere, so why not start with a simple definition of life science?
Life science is the study of living organisms — including plants, animals and humans. We teach this branch of science in elementary and middle school to help our students understand the diversity, complexity and interdependence of life on Earth.
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Environmental Factors That Affect Plants and Animals – Interactive Activity
Help your students learn about how environmental factors such as the weather affect plants and animals using this engaging and informative interactive activity.
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Plant Adaptations - Color by Number Worksheets
Learn about the adaptations of plants in the rainforest, tundra, and desert with color-by-number worksheets.
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Plant Adaptations Webquest Activity
Research and learn about the amazing adaptations of eight unusual plants with an interactive webquest research activity.
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Plant Adaptation Puzzles - Matching Activity
Match plants with their unique adaptations using a printable puzzle-matching activity.
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Plant Adaptations - Research Task Cards
Research behavioral, structural, and physiological adaptations with printable plant adaptation task cards.
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Unusual Plant Adaptations (3rd Grade Science Worksheet)
Teach your 3rd graders about unusual plant adaptations with a printable adaptation worksheet.
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What Could Happen? - Environmental Changes Worksheet
Explore the effects of environmental change on plants and animals with a printable science worksheet.
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Which Environment is Best? - Worksheet
Identify the best environments for different plants to grow with a cut and paste worksheet.
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What Do Plants Need? Plant Habitat Interactive Game
Help some lost plants return to the correct habitat with a Google Slides interactive activity.
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How Does the Environment Affect Plants? Science Experiment
Investigate the effect of the environment on plant life with a no-cut printable science experiment mini-book.
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Plant Adaptations- Poster
Learn about different plants' behavioral, structural, and physiological adaptations with a printable plant adaptation anchor chart.
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Who Would Win? - Plant Adaptation Interactive Game
Identify plants and plant adaptations that allow for survival in different environments with an exciting “Who Would Win?” showdown game!
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Plant Life Cycle Sorting Activity
Help your students identify the stages in a plant’s life cycle with a sorting activity..
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Animal Adaptations Word Search
Develop science vocabulary skills with a printable animal adaptations word search.
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What Plants Need - Kindergarten Worksheet
Identify what plants need to survive with a group of free plant worksheets for kindergartners.
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Life Cycle of an Oak Tree Worksheet
Sequence the life cycle of an oak tree with this cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Why Are Plants Important? Teaching Slide Deck
Exploring the different ways that plants can be beneficial with an interactive slide deck.
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Food Webs - Research Project
Explore the food webs that exist in various biomes around the world with this student-centered inquiry task.
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Build a Food Chain - Sorting Activity
Create food chains for a variety of ecosystems with this hands-on, student-centered activity.
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Swamp Food Chain - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Create a swamp food chain to show how energy flows between organisms with this cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Desert Food Chain - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Create a desert food chain to show how energy flows between organisms with this cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Ocean Food Chain - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Create an ocean food chain to show how energy flows between organisms with this cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Arctic Food Chain - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Create an Arctic food chain to show how energy flows between organisms with this cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Rainforest Food Chain - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Create a rainforest food chain to show how energy flows between organisms with this cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Plant Adaptations Slide Deck
Explore different plants' behavioral, structural, and physiological adaptations with an interactive slide deck.
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Tomato Plant Life Cycle - Cut and Paste Worksheet
Learn about the life cycle of a tomato with a cut-and-paste sequencing worksheet.
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Inherited and Acquired Plant Traits Research Project
Help your students uncover the different inherited and acquired traits of plants with a research project!
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Tree Observation Worksheets
Record observations of trees in the environment with a printable graphic organizer.
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Plant Journal Observation Worksheets
Observe and record information about the features of plants with a plant journal worksheet.
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Plant Life Cycle Poster - Life Cycle of a Flower
Display and discuss the life cycle of a flower with a printable anchor chart.
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Capillary Action in Plants - Science Experiment Booklet
Observe and record learning about the Capillary Action of Plants with a printable science experiment guidebook.
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Producer, Consumer and Decomposer - Sorting Activity
Explore the roles and relationships of producers, consumers and decomposers in food chains with this hands-on sorting activity.
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