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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Grasshopper Life Cycle - Blank Template
A blank grasshopper life cycle template to use in the classroom when learning about minibeasts.
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What Living Things Need to Survive - Teaching Slides
Teach your students what animals, plants, and humans need to survive with an engaging, interactive teaching slide deck.
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Pets and Their Needs - Worksheet
A worksheet for students to identify the four basic needs of living things.
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The Natural Environment of South America PowerPoint
A 17-slide editable PowerPoint template to use when introducing students to the climate, vegetation, and animals of South America.
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Fly Life Cycle Sort Activity
Help your students concrete their understanding of the fly life cycle with this interactive game.
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Scarlet Macaw Endangered Animal Poster
A poster showing information regarding the status of scarlet macaws.
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Wildlife Conservation Vocabulary Words
Help your students build academic vocabulary skills surrounding animal and wildlife conservation with a printable word wall.
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Parts of an Animal Cell - Blank
Use this worksheet to highlight the different parts of an animal cell.
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Parts of an Animal Cell Poster BW
Use this poster to highlight the different parts of an animal cell.
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How We Grow and Change - Sequencing Activity
A sequencing activity to use when learning about growth and change.
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Sequencing Life Cycles Worksheet
An activity for students to use when learning about life cycles.
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Silkworm 'Lift the Flap' Life Stages Template
An activity for students to use when learning about life stages.
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Eggs-ellent Dominoes
Identify egg-laying animal offspring by matching different eggs to their respective animals.
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Silkworm Life Cycle Sort
Help your students concrete their understanding of silkworm life cycles with this interactive game.
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Silkworm Life Cycle Poster
An educational poster displaying the life cycle stages of a silkworm.
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Butterfly Life Cycle Poster and Worksheet
An educational poster and worksheet about the stages of a butterfly's life cycle.
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Animal Fact File Worksheet
An animal fact file for students to complete when learning about a variety of animals.
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Male, Female, Baby, and Group Animal Names- Posters
5 pages of posters with animal names.
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Tundra PowerPoint
An 11-slide editable PowerPoint to use in the classroom when learning about tundras.
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Temperate Grassland PowerPoint
An 11-slide editable PowerPoint to use in the classroom when learning about temperate grasslands.
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Desert PowerPoint
An 11-slide editable PowerPoint to use in the classroom when learning about deserts.
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Develop a Habitat - Garden Project
A project-based assessment task for students to demonstrate their understanding of how habitats can be preserved and protected in and around where people live.
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Personal Growth Worksheets
Worksheets to use when exploring personal growth and change.
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Natural Environments - PowerPoint
A Natural Environments-themed PowerPoint to add some color and design to your classroom PowerPoint presentations.
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Wetland Word Wall Vocabulary
A set of wetland-related vocabulary word wall cards.
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Basic Food Chain Worksheet
A basic food chain worksheet for your students to complete.
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Plant and Animal Adaptations Teaching Resource Pack
A teaching resource pack of posters, worksheets and activities for teaching animal and plant adaptation and evolution.
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The Importance of Environments Unit Plan
This Science unit addresses the importance of ecosystems to plants and animals and the ways in which they can be protected.
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Easy Pumpkin Drawing Video for Kids
Use a fun and easy pumpkin drawing video for kids as a lesson hook for your 1st and 2nd grade science lessons on plants!
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Changes I Can See!
This Earth and Space Sciences unit explores how and why observable changes occur in the sky and landscape, and develops students' ability to describe these changes in their local environment.
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Growth and Change Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit explores how living things grow and change. Animal offspring (including humans) are compared with their parents and plants are grown from seed in order to observe change over a period of weeks.
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Living Things and Their External Features Unit Plan
This Biological Sciences unit covers a range of concepts relating to living things, such as their external features and the places in which their needs are met.
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