Students model how the bones in a bat wing are organized. They develop questions about bat body parts based on photographs. They hypothesize how bats locate their food.

Students review, create, and inquire about dinosaurs, the fossilization process, and paleontology by successfully completing each of six classroom stations.

Students investigate basic information about dinosaurs. They listen to the book, "My Visit To the Dinosaurs," explore various websites, take an online quiz, and play an online dinosaur game.

Students explore the elements of a forest ecosystem. They examine the elements needed to form a forest food web. Students construct and describe food webs that include nonliving elements of the ecosystem.

Students recognize interdependence in a food web by using yarn and notecards to create a food web and discussing what would happen if one of the organisms from a certain trophic level is removed.

Note that although the publisher lists almost all of the Common Core standards for both math and language arts, you will most likely want to take the general topic and choose which area to focus on. Regarding math, pupils measure worms...

Middle schoolers show the relationship between the need for plants to undergo photosynthesis in order to generate oxygen. They see the flaws associated with this thinking because of the lack of CO2 and H2O and lack of sufficient gravity...

Fifth graders examine how simple food chains and food webs function. They examine an illustrated food chain/food web and identify the producers and consumers. Students then sequence pictures of animals into a food web, and create their...

Students research animals found in the arctic. They discuss what living things need in order to survive and where they get their food. Students discuss the difference between producers and consumers and create a food web for animals in...

Eighth graders explore different ecosystems.  In this ecosystem survival lesson conditions lesson students create their own fictional creature.

Students are able to define food web, and identify the interdependence of organisms within a system. They are able to describe how natural events and human activities can impact a food web.

Middle schoolers develop an understanding of the different fields of study that are encompassed by the term, life science. They view and discuss a video on the topic. In small groups they focus on on of the examples shown in the video...

High schoolers explore the why the balance among producers, predators and prey is necessary in order for an ecosystem to be sustained over time. Through web games and activities, they discover how each component of the food chain works...

In this dinosaur worksheet, students find the names of 15 dinosaurs, or dinosaur-related words. The puzzle is in the shape of a dinosaur.

In this paleontology matching worksheet, students match clues related to dinosaurs to scrambled words. Twelve words and clues are given.

In this "You Know the Answer" worksheet, learners are given answers and must devise a question to match the answer. Answers include such topics as planets, animals, and weather. There are ten problems on this one-page worksheet. An...

In this heat instructional activity, students determine the heat gained or lost when matter changes phases. Students review the energy flow through ecosystems by comparing trophic levels and food webs. This instructional activity has 10...

Students investigate how food chains work. For this food chains lesson, students construct a food web for a pear tree habitat. The interactive whiteboard is an optional tool in this lesson.

In this food web study worksheet, students record how 24 animals get their food. Each animal should categorized as a forager, grazer, filter feeder, parasite, predator, or scavenger on the graphic organizer.

For this sentence completion worksheet, students choose the best word(s) to complete each sentence from five possible choices.

Students examine the differences between biotic and abiotic factors, explain the difference between habitat and niche and compare how organisms get their nutritional needs.  In this local environment instructional activity students...

For this matching science words and definitions about animals worksheet, students match fifteen science words about animals with the definitions.

In this animals worksheet, students put names of animals into alphabetical order. Students put 15 animal names into alphabetical order.

Seventh graders discover how an ecosystem works by creating one in class.  In this Earth science lesson plan, 7th graders study vocabulary terms associated with ecosystem and read environment handouts.  Students create an...