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Human Cheek Cell
Get up close and personal with human cells with this lab instructional activity. Learners use a microscope to examine their own cheek cells, drawing diagrams of the cells and identifying the parts when they have focused in on a visible...
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Atomic Models
Your students should enjoy this slideshow which includes some basic definitions about the atomic structure of atoms. In fact, this presentation would be best-viewed before giving details and diagrams of neutrons, protons and quarks. The...
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Countdown Challenge
In this countdown challenge worksheet, learners find the 10 common elements from the human body, earth's crust, and ancient times and color code them. Students fill the atomic number of the elements in a given periodic table.
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Living Environment
In this environment worksheet students complete a series of multiple choice and short answer questions on organisms, reproduction, DNA and cell division.
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Elements of Chemistry: Atoms: The Building Blocks of Matter
Students explore scientific theories and the works of scientists. In this chemistry lesson students develop a timeline that shows how scientists work was built on the ones before them.
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What is the Nucleus Like?
In this nucleus of an atom worksheet, high schoolers answer 19 multiple choice questions about the structure of the atom, radioactive decay, isotopes and half life.
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Atom Review
In this atom worksheet, students review the subatomic particles, the scientists associated with the atomic theory, and the periodic table. This worksheet has 15 matching, 24 fill in the blank, and 11 short answer questions.
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Human Blood: Microviewer
In this human blood: microviewer worksheet, students answer questions about blood, red blood cells, white blood cells, phagocytosis, blood type B, fibrin, sickle cells, and infected blood. Students also draw quick sketches of a human...
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Review of Cell Organelles
In this cell organelles instructional activity, students read the structure and function of different plant and animal cell organelles to determine what organelle is being described. Students write in the 15 organelles into a chart.
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Types of Matter
In this matter worksheet, learners will read 11 clues on the topic of the different types of matter and put the answers into a crossword puzzle.
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Matter and Atoms
For this matter and atoms worksheet, students will fill in the number of protons, electrons, and neutrons for five different atoms. Then students will fill in the blanks of five statements with words from a word bank. Finally, students...
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Tasty Treats
In this biology instructional activity, students construct a model of a plant or animal cell using edible materials that will remain fresh at least three days. They identify and label each part to include various organelles as listed....
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An Inventory of My Traits
In this biology activity, students identify and describe a number of easily observable genetic traits and compare the traits they have with other students. Then they identify and describe that some traits are common while others are not...
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Cells: The Basic Units of Life
In this cell worksheet, students identify the function of 4 different parts of a cell, complete 4 word connections, and complete a word puzzle about cells.
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Biology: Cells and Chemical Changes
Students explore the numerous functions of cells in both plants and animals. Following a pre-assessment, they construct cell models and examine onion cell slides stained with iodine or dye. After participating in experiments on how to...
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Frosty the Snowman Meets His Demise: An Analogy to Carbon Dating
High schoolers read and discuss an article about carbon dating, then participate in a hands-on lab to discover how carbon dating works. Students also write a letter to a friend explaining the process, and how archeologists use the...
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The Spanish Omelet
Young scholars use analogies to show the relationships among cell, nucleus, genes, chromosome, ribosome, replication, mitosis, transcription, translation, DNA, RNA, amino acids and proteins, genotype, phenotype, and genetics vs....
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Cells: Structures and Processes
Students explore the basic unit of life, the cell in this nine lessons unit. The cell structure of animal and plant cell functions and how they affect our world are probed in this unit.
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What's the Matter? Locating Electrons in an Atom
Middle schoolers roll dice in order to simulate the probability of locating an electron in a certain region around the nucleus.
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Cell Division: Frog Egg Division Observation and Modeling
Students create and test a hypothesis about cell division. After observation of Frog Egg cell division, students write obervations and refine process and hypothesis. The use of scientific method, group work and inquiry are fostered by...
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Cell Campaign
Students work in groups to create a new head of the cell to take over for the nucleus. In this cell lesson students produce a campaign that will show the importance of the organelle to the cell.
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Onion Cells
Students observe the cells of an onion by wet mounting it and viewing it in a microscope. In this hands on lesson students make their own wet mount slide of an onion and are able to identify the cells in it such as, the nucleus,...
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Science: Atom Quiz
In this science: atom quiz learning exercise, students answer 10 true or false questions, not interactively, then scroll down to check their answers.
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Atomic Theory, Structure, and Symbols
In this atomic theory worksheet, students review the observations that led to the conclusion of the atom having a positively charged nucleus. Students compare atomic number and mass number and explain how the discovery of subatomic...