Curated OER
Viruses and Bacteria
In this viruses and bacteria learning exercise, students will read information comparing the characteristics of bacteria and viruses. Then students will match 8 statements as either describing a virus or a bacteria.
Curated OER
Digestion and Nutrition
In this digestion instructional activity, students will review a diagram showing the parts of the digestive system and the length of the intestines. Students will complete 3 short answer questions based on the diagram.
Curated OER
Arthropod Life Cycle
In this arthropod life cycle worksheet, students will use a diagram showing the 4 stages of butterfly metamorphosis to complete a table describing each of the stages.
Curated OER
Arthropods
In this arthropods worksheet, students will identify 3 different arthropods and compare these organisms' breathing structures: gills, book lungs, and tracheal tubes. This worksheet has 3 fill in the blank and 6 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Cell Reproduction
In this cell reproduction worksheet, students will discover that when a cube doubles in size, the surface area grows by four times and the volume grows by eight times. Students will use this information to understand the limits to cell...
Curated OER
Wise Use of Our Resources
In this resources worksheet, students will categorize 10 resources as either a renewable or nonrenewable resource. Students will then complete 2 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Animal Behavior
For this animal behavior worksheet, students will read information about reflex behaviors and instinct behaviors. Then students will complete 1 short answer and 1 fill in the blank question.
Curated OER
Learned Behaviors
In this learned behaviors worksheet, students will learn the steps that Pavlov took in conditioning dogs to drool when they heard a bell. Students will then complete 2 short answer questions based on Pavlov's experiment.
Curated OER
Echinoderms and Invertebrate Chordates
In this echinoderms activity, high schoolers will read information about echinoderms and invertebrate chordates. Then students will compare their similarities and differences by completing 1 short answer question.
Curated OER
Invertebrate Chordates
Most chordates are easy to identify because of the specific classification criteria of their phylum. But what about tunicates? Young scientists read a short explanation about why tunicates, or sea squirts, are considered to be members of...
Curated OER
Principles of Ecology
In this ecology learning exercise, students will review 10 vocabulary words associated with the basic principles of ecology. This learning exercise has 10 fill in the blank questions.
Curated OER
Arthropods
In this arthropods activity, students review the characteristics of arthropods by choosing from 15 terms to fill in the blank of 10 statements.
Curated OER
Echinoderms and Invertebrate Chordates
In this invertebrate instructional activity, high schoolers will review 11 vocabulary words associated with the characteristics of echinoderms and invertebrate chordates. This instructional activity is a crossword puzzle.
Curated OER
The Circulatory System
In this circulatory system worksheet, students read a paragraph about the function of the different organs that make up the circulatory system. Then students complete 3 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Respiration, Circulation, and Excretion
In this body systems activity, students place 11 vocabulary words into a word puzzle by matching the terms with their definition. The vocabulary words are review of the respiratory, circulatory, and urinary body systems.
Curated OER
Defense Against Infectious Diseases
For this infectious diseases worksheet, students read about the two types of defenses the body has against pathogens: innate (nonspecific) and adaptive (specific). Students then complete a graphic organizer by filling in 11 blanks.
Curated OER
The Nature of Disease
In this disease worksheet, students read information about infectious diseases, how they are transmitted, and how they are treated. Students then complete 6 fill in the blank questions.
Curated OER
Mendel and Meiosis
In this meiosis worksheet, students review Mendel's process of the passing on of traits to the next generation. This worksheet has 3 short answer questions
Curated OER
Flower Population
In this flower population worksheet, high schoolers use a diagram of first and second generations of a flower population to complete 2 short answer questions about genotype and allelic frequency.
Curated OER
Sponges, Cnidarians, Flatworms, and Roundworms
In this simple animals worksheet, students read information about sponges, cnidarians, flatworms, and roundworms and then complete a chart comparing and contrasting these groups of animals. This worksheet has 11 fill in the blank questions.
Curated OER
What is an Animal?
In this flatworm body plan activity, students compare the body plans of several worms. Students answer several questions based upon the given diagrams of a cross section of the different body plans of each worm.
Curated OER
Classification
In this classification worksheet, students use information describing the ways biologists compare living things to complete 4 matching questions.
Curated OER
Primate Evolution
In this primate evolution worksheet, students use an idea map showing how primates have evolved into the different groups to complete 1 true or false and 2 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Organizing Life
In this taxonomy instructional activity, students learn about Linnaeus' system for classifying living things. Students complete 2 fill in the blank and 2 short answer questions based on what they read.