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Biology Biographies
Learners create a project about a famous Biologist in order to appreciate the humanity of the people involved in doing science. They create scientist biography "cards" roughly modeled after baseball cards or create a scrapbook of a...
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Guess Who Came to Dinner!
An exceptionally creative approach is taken to assessing your biologists' grasp of natural selection concepts. They are to imagine hosting Charles Darwin for dinner and having, to their surpise, a few other noted scientists crash the...
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Rachel Carson
In this famous person worksheet, students read a passage about Rachel Carson and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze, synonym...
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The Key To Classifying Animals
Explorers of the environment construct a dichotomous key for a variety of organisms and design a key to classify Galapagos animals based on descriptions and images. The lesson plan includes a link to an animal gallery and the worksheet...
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SHOW 303: The Channel Island Fox
Students explore how archaeologists and other scientists use different clues to piece together a picture of the past. Students perform activities that allow them to conduct three types of scientific research. They discuss their...
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1Word and Letter Match Puzzle
In this word and letter match worksheet, students match groups of 3 letters to words that contain each set. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Christiane Nusslein Volhard
Find out about the German biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her research on the genetic control of embryonic development.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Francis Crick
Discover Francis Crick, British molecular biologist, physicist, and neuroscientist who jointly won a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Ernst Mayr
Read about the life and work Ernst Mayr, one of 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Francesco Redi
Find out about the experimental biologist, Francesco Redi, and learn about his work that led to becoming known as the father of modern parasitology.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Erwin Schrodinger
Learn about the life and work of this Austrian physicist and theoretical biologist, founder of quantum mechanics, the Schrodinger equation, and his brilliant contributions to the wave theory of matter.
Smithsonian Institution
National Postal Museum: Famous Americans: Luther Burbank
Learn brief information from the National Postal Museum on Luther Burbank, famous American biologist, who was featured on the three cent postage stamp.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Famous Marine Biologists and Their Contributions
Read up on the lives and contributions of these scientists if you are considering a career in marine biology.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Aristotle
A detailed biography of Aristotle (384-322 BC). Discusses his early life, his education, his relationship with Alexander the Great as tutor, the breadth of his work in various science disciplines, the school he established in Athens, and...
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: Claude Bernard
Read about Claude Bernard, one of the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: E. O. Wilson
Find out about the environmental advocate known as both the father of sociobiology and the father of biodiversity, Edward O. Wilson.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Robert Ballard
This resource provides information about the marine biologist Robert Ballard, who discovered the most famous wreck of the twentieth century - the Titanic.
My Hero Project
My Hero: Jacques Cousteau
Use this site to learn about the famous oceanographer and biologist, Jacques Cousteau, who completed 120 documentaries during his lifetime.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Louis Pasteur
A chemist and biologist, born in dole, department of Jura, France, Dec. 27, 1822; died Sept. 28, 1895. He is known most famously for his demonstrations supporting the germ theory of disease and his vaccinations, most notably the first...