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401 resources with the concept organisms

Exploring Trophic Cascades Interactive

Exploring Trophic Cascades

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
What happens when the top predator on an ecosystem disappears? Scholars explore this idea through an introduction example and four case studies. They learn to analyze the importance of every member in a food pyramid to come to their...
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The Classification of Living Things Lesson Plan

The Classification of Living Things

6th - 12th
It's a classification sensation! Demystify why we classify using an inquiry activity that helps your class sort things out. Groups begin by classifying a variety of shoes before they research organisms and design their own dichotomous...
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Post-Assessment Assessment

Post-Assessment

3rd - 5th
Twenty questions make up an assessment designed to test super scientists' knowledge of ecosystems. Scholars answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions about organisms, food chains, energy flow, and more.
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Mighty Microorganisms Activities & Project

Mighty Microorganisms

3rd - 5th
How can you tell if a microorganism is helpful or detrimental to an ecosystem? Learners inspect slides or pictures of microorganisms and record their observations to identify those that are beneficial or harmful. They then pretend to...
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Blubber Gloves: It’s All About Insulation Activities & Project

Blubber Gloves: It’s All About Insulation

3rd - 5th
Instill the concept of adaptation with the help of Blubber Gloves—ziplock bags, shortening, and duct tape. Scholars discuss how animals and plants keep warm in polar regions, record their predictions, and try on their Blubber Gloves to...
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Ecosystem Pre-Assessment Assessment

Ecosystem Pre-Assessment

3rd - 5th
Test scholars' knowledge of ecosystems with a 20-question pre-assessment. Assessment challenges learners to answer multiple choice questions, read diagrams, and complete charts.
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Life Begins: Crash Course Big History #4 Video

Life Begins: Crash Course Big History #4

13 mins 9th - Higher Ed
CCSS: Adaptable
Scientists try to understand the origins of life, and answers to these questions might be found during our lifetime. The fourth video in a 16-part series explains the earliest forms of life on Earth and their development. It covers...
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Prokaryotic vs Eukaryotic: The Differences Video

Prokaryotic vs Eukaryotic: The Differences

3 mins 9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Prokaryotes claim the title of the most numerous organisms on earth. The video, part of a Fuse School Biology playlist, focuses on the differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. It highlights the structure and function for...
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LS2A - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems Video

LS2A - Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

8 mins K - 12th
Everybody needs somebody... especially in nature! Show your young ecologists the finer points of NGSS standard LS2A, Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems, using the helpful ideas in the video. The narrator discusses the...
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LS1C - Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms Video

LS1C - Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms

6 mins K - 12th
How do you plan to approach standard LS1C, Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms? Avoid information overload with helpful advice in a short video. Topics include energy sources, relationships between organisms, and...
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Introduction to Ecology Video

Introduction to Ecology

5 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
An educational video offers an overview of ecology and discusses the levels of organization from biosphere down to organisms. It also compares terms such as habitats versus niches, generalist versus specialist, and biotic versus abiotic.
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Classification Lesson Plan

Classification

3rd - 8th
Explore the scientific method of classification. An interactive activity asks learners to create a classification system for a group of objects and develop a flow chart to communicate their systems. In addition, individuals use a...
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What Lives In The Ocean? Unit

What Lives In The Ocean?

4th - 8th
One of the most diverse environments on Earth is the ocean. Young scientists explore the living things found in the ocean during an exciting seven-lesson unit. Their study includes organisms from plankton to invertebrates and vertebrates...
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What Environmental Conditions Lead to the Hatching of Brine Shrimp? Handouts & Reference

What Environmental Conditions Lead to the Hatching of Brine Shrimp?

5th - 6th
Will changing the environment in which brine shrimp live impact their reproductive success? Young scientists get hands-on experience studying the habitat of brine shrimp in a two-week immersion lesson. The teacher's guide provides all of...
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Get Your Organisms Organized Unit

Get Your Organisms Organized

6th
CCSS: Designed
From large to small, show your class how to organize them all! Included within the guide is everything you need to take their knowledge of classification from the cellular to the species level. The worksheets focus on building vocabulary...
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Biome Basics with a Disastrous Twist Unit

Biome Basics with a Disastrous Twist

7th
CCSS: Designed
Bored with your current biome bag of tricks? This bundle is a bountiful bag of biome fun! Travel the globe with seventh graders and explore the biotic and abiotic factors that define our world's biomes. Then, introduce a little chaos to...
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Taxonomy: Who is in My family? Lab Resource

Taxonomy: Who is in My family?

9th - 12th
Find similarities in seemingly unlike organisms. The second instructional activity in a series of 12 builds the concept of a taxonomy and explores the use of a dichotomous key. Learners begin in part one by attempting to group a set of...
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Classifying Organisms Based On the Characteristics of the Five Kingdoms of Living Things Lesson Plan

Classifying Organisms Based On the Characteristics of the Five Kingdoms of Living Things

9th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
Kids prefer candy over fried green spinach. King Philip can order five good soups. Mnemonic devices are very helpful for remembering taxonomy. The second lesson in a 10-part series teaches scholars about kingdom, phylum, class, and...
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Vertebrates and Invertebrates Worksheet

Vertebrates and Invertebrates

4th - 6th
Spine or no spine? Vertebrate or invertebrate? Learners sort and classify a list of animals as vertebrates or invertebrates into a graphic organizer.
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Introducing Ecosystem Services Lesson Plan

Introducing Ecosystem Services

7th - 9th
CCSS: Adaptable
Ecosystems provide many things humans not only use but also need in order to survive. The last lesson in the series of seven introduces scholars to the idea of ecosystem services, that ecosystems provide humans with many things we need....
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Attack of the Zombie Parasites! Video

Attack of the Zombie Parasites!

7 mins 6th - 12th
CCSS: Adaptable
There is a law in Haiti that makes it a crime to turn someone into a zombie. But is such a thing even possible? Scholars see examples of zombie-like organisms found here on Earth with a video that explores numerous examples, from the...
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Deep-Sea Ecosystems – Life is Weird! Lesson Plan

Deep-Sea Ecosystems – Life is Weird!

7th - 8th
CCSS: Adaptable
A pool of brine in the deep sea can be up to four times as salty as the surrounding sea water. The deep sea ecosystem relies on chemosynthesis and the organisms that live there are often strange to us. The lesson focuses on researching...
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The Keepers of the Gate Challenge Lesson Plan

The Keepers of the Gate Challenge

9th - 12th
Help your class make a connection between salt water and nanoscience. In the introductory lesson of a seven-part unit, the class explores why salt water helps a sore throat feel better. Pupils conduct preliminary research about the...
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Breaking Down Ecosystems
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Breaking Down Ecosystems

6th - 8th
Ecosystems are crucial in allowing for the flow of energy. In this collection, learners look at how energy flows from one organism to another through food chains and food webs. With videos, interactives, and worksheets, the material in the collection is great for a week long study of ecosystems. The end of the collection provides a quiz for young life scientists to show what they learned.
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