Life Science Teaching Resources

Big Changes!

A 60-minute lesson in which students will develop their understanding of the concept of metamorphosis.

Going Through Stages

A 60 minute lesson in which students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of simple life cycles.

Mothers, Fathers, and Babies

A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare observable features of adults and offspring and identify the proper names of adults and their offspring.

A-Planting We Will Go!

A 60 minute lesson in which students will plant seeds following the procedure of the scientific method.

Let's Think Like a Scientist

A 60 minute lesson in which students will develop an understanding of the procedures scientists use and design one segment of an experiment.

How Do Living Things Change?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will activate prior knowledge about how living things change as they grow.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

An assessment task in which students will demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of the external features of small animals.

What is the Same and What is Different?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will compare the external features of small animals.

What Snacks Do Ants Prefer?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate which foods ants prefer to eat.

Astounding Ants

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the external features of an ant.

Vital Vegetation

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the different ways that vegetation can be beneficial.

Let's Build an Earthworm House

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that living things live in different places where their needs are met.

Exploring Plants

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the importance of natural vegetation to animals and people.

Amazing Tunnellers

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the external features of an earthworm.

What Did We Find On Our Playground Safari?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways.

We're Going On a Playground Safari

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate the external features of small animals.

Asking Questions About Living Things

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify that small animals have different external features.

Living Things Are All Around Us

A 60 minute lesson in which students will activate prior knowledge about living and non-living things.

Deserts

A 60 minute lesson in which students will understand how climate can influence the vegetation and animals found in a desert.

Habitat Diorama - Assessment Task

An inquiry-based assessment task in which students will demonstrate an understanding of the four basic needs for living things.

Shelter Building Experiment

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how a shelter can protect a living thing.

Living Things Need Shelter

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify why living things need shelter.

Living Things Need Water

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate why living things need water.

Living Things Need Energy

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify why living things need energy.

Creating Oxygen Experiment

A 60 minute lesson in which students will investigate how plants make oxygen.

Living Things Need Oxygen

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify why living things need oxygen.

Animal Adaptations Inquiry Task - Presenting

What Do Living Things Need?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the four basic needs of living things.

Animal Adaptations Inquiry Task - Researching

Living or Non-Living?

A 60 minute lesson in which students will identify the features of living and non-living things.