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University of Oxford (UK)

Oxford University Museum of Natural History: Seven Life Processes

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the seven life processes that describe whether an animal is alive or not. Each characteristic is defined with examples and pictures. Also included is a living animal quiz to test how much you have learned.
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Channel 4 Learning

4 L: Science Essentials: Choose Life

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great review for understanding life cycles and many aspects of living things. Find topics and their main ideas, vocabulary review, quizzes, and complementary activities for teachers to use.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Biology: The Study of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module where students analyze the relationships between the structures and functions of cells, tissues, organs to carry out all of the requisite characteristics of life. They also describe the scope of biological study and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Characteristics of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the characteristics of life.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Characteristics of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the characteristics of life. [Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Characteristics and Origins of Life Study Guide

For Students 4th - 8th
A general overview of the origin and characteristics of life.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Characteristics of Life

For Students 10th - 12th
Covers seven characteristics shared by all living organisms.[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.]
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Characteristics and Origins of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes characteristics of living organisms, and the origin of life.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Characteristics and Origins of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes characteristics of living organisms and the origin of life.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Characteristics of Life

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How do you define a living thing? What do mushrooms, daisies, cats, and bacteria have in common? All of these are living things, or organisms. It might seem hard to...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Characteristics of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the characteristics of life.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Common Features of All Forms of Life

For Students 6th - 8th
This slide show describes the seven common characteristics of all living things.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Life and Purpose

For Students 9th - 10th
This article describes the differences between non-life and life. Learn how we classify something as living or nonliving.
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Gallery: What Is Life?

For Students 9th - 10th
How do we define what is life? Use this gallery to learn about how we define whether an object is alive or not.
Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Glossary: Life

For Students 9th - 10th
A helpful glossary of terms to go along with the Life unit in Big History.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Are You Dead or Alive?

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A great site that offers real life examples of what makes something living or nonliving.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Characteristics of Life

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Lists and describes the characteristics of life.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Characteristics of Life: Living vs. Non Living Characteristics

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Drag the green tiles from the blue box in the interactive to group the different characteristics into the appropriate columns.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: 7th Grade Life Science at the Observatory: Life Throughout the Universe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson is used to review basic concepts of Life Science and to utilize that knowledge by making the young scholars think about and wonder if there is life somewhere else in the universe and what that life would be like.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Marine Vertebrates

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about vertebrates found in the ocean, their individual methods of adaptations, identifying characteristics and contributions to the marine ecosystem.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure, Reg Harris[pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the three-page PDF article "The Hero's Journey: Life's Great Adventure" by Reg Harris which outlines the characteristics of the journey motif in literature including the basic eight-step journey pattern.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Marine Plants & Algae

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to the producers of the various marine environments, their chemical processes, and identifying characteristics.
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Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: Marine Invertebrates

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about invertebrates found in the ocean, their individual methods of adaptations, identifying characteristics, and contributions to the marine ecosystem.
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Other

It's All About What's Inside. Classification and the Tree of Life [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this science lesson, young scholars look at how animals have traditionally been classified in a tree of life diagram by examining the characteristics of plastic eggs. They then analyze the genetic code assigned for each egg and look...

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