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.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains radioactive dating, how it works, and how carbon-14 is used to date the remains of living things.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes characteristics of living organisms, and the origin of life.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes characteristics of living organisms and the origin of life.

Great site to test your knowledge on living and nonliving things. Play a game that tests your knowledge, and view pictures to pick out each living organism.

The Energy Systems and Solutions unit brings students through the exploration of science and engineering concepts as they relate to energy issues in everyday life. Issues surrounding energy production and energy consumption provide a...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When you see an organism that you have never seen before, you probably put it into a group without even thinking. If it is green and leafy, you probably call it a...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Crocodilia, containing both alligators and crocodiles, is an order of large reptiles. Reptiles belonging to Crocodilia are the closest living relatives of birds....

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Lizards and snakes belong to the largest order of reptiles, Squamata. Lizards are a large group of reptiles, with nearly 5,000 species, living on every continent...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The great apes are the members of the biological family Hominidae, which includes four living genera: chimpanzees, gorillas, humans, and orangutans. Learn more about...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Centipedes and millipedes belong to the subphylum Myriapoda, which contains 13,000 species. They all live on land. They are divided among four classes: (1) Chilopoda...

A 4-page section of the Grade 7 Nelson Science and Technology Perspectives textbook. It looks at what organisms need to survive, specifically sunlight, air, water, and food. This is a visually-rich text with tips to help students'...

Greater Good conducts research into the science of goodness, concerning itself with what makes us happy and compassionate human beings strongly bonded to our society. Find blogs on different topics, access to "Greater Good" magazine,...

Teachers can utilize this colorful interactive site so that students can explore the wonderful world of sea animals. Use this site to learn their characteristics and living environments.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the different depth levels of the ocean and the types of animals that live in each. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wet lands and the plants and animals that live there . A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Students can watch vivid pictures change before their eyes, from lions to monkeys to dolphins. Authors provide interactive games that aid in learning the behavior of animals. Continue to explore by investigating the habitat, diet, and...

Through informational text, interactive activities, animations, and video clips, students examine the chemistry of living things, and they learn how interactions from atoms are fundamental to life as we know it.

[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...

Learners become connected with nature by handling and caring for another living creature. Focuses on insect care and familiarization with a meal worm.

Activities to accompany the Active science learning modules.

This landing page includes learning modules on the following topics of: animals, plants, microorganisms, life cycles and reproductions, food chains, habits, humans and the environment, adaptation, inheritance, and evolution.

This unit covers the processes of photosynthesis, extinction, biomimicry and bioremediation. In the first lesson on photosynthesis, students learn how engineers use the natural process of photosynthesis as an exemplary model of a complex...

This comprehensive site provides biographies of Canadian astronauts and describes their training process, missions and history. It also explores what it is like to live in space. There is even information about how to invite an astronaut...