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Biology Lesson Plans

Biology Lesson Plans


 Plants Lesson Plans

Animal or Plant?

Do Plants Need Sunlight?

Living in a Tree

Have You Ever Met a Tree?

Peanut Power

Mushroom Prints

Coffee: How does a Coffee Bean Become a Cup of Java?

Fish Heads: A Lesson on Adaptation

Animals Lesson Plans

Bee Stings

Bird Songs: What Is a Bird Saying When It Sings

What Is an Insect?

Fish Heads: A Lesson on Adaptation

Egg Fun

Categorizing animals (1-3)

Coelenterates, Worms & Arthropods; convening, creating & conventions (K-5)

Survival of the Fittest"; Animal Survival game (2-4)

'Buggy Diner', study of insect control (3-5)

"For the Birds", studying birds' feeding pattern (K-3)

Studying "Earthworms" (3-4)

Dolphin Communication

How Do Sharks Find Their Prey?

Rain Forest Animals

Human Body Lesson Plans

Being Alive

Genetics: You Are Unique

High Jump: How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?

Reflexes: Why Does a Doctor Check My Reflexes When I Have a Check-Up?

Taste and Smell: Why Does Food Seem Tasteless When You Have a Cold?

Taste Buds

mini-lesson on blood circulation

Senses - Literature based (K)

Health evaluation of food groups (3-4)

Body Fat: Is All Fat Bad?

Bone Marrow: What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant and How Does It Work?

Bones: How Do Bones Get So Strong?

Brain Injury

Cancer Causes: Why Do People Get Cancer?

Cancer Treatments: Is Cancer Curable?

DNA Fingerprinting: Can Blood Found at a Crime Scene Really Identify a Criminal?

Fingerprints: A Lesson in Classification

Hearing: Can I Damage My Hearing by Listening to Loud Music?

High Jump: How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?

Hip Replacement: How Do Artificial Implants Work in the Body?

Jungle Survival: How Do People Survive in the Jungle without Food or Water?

Malaria Tracking: How Can You Locate Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes?

Medical Quackeries: Can This Machine Cure Me?

Murder Mystery: How Do Forensic Scientists Help Solve Murders?

Nicotine: Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?

Olympic Training Center: How Can Biomechanics Help an Athlete?

Tears: Why Do We Cry?

Middle School

AIDS: What Is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?

Balloon Safari: How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?

Bee Stings

Biological Rhythyms

Bird Songs: What Is a Bird Saying When it Sings?

Blood Typing: What Makes Different Blood Types Different?

Body Fat: Is All Fat Bad?

Bone Marrow: What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant and How Does it Work?

Bones: How Do Bones Get So Strong?

Brain Injury

Broken Bones

Cancer Causes: Why Do People Get Cancer?

Cancer Treatments: Is Cancer Curable?

Cockroaches

Coffee: How Does a Coffee Bean Become a Cup of Java?

Diabetes: What Is Type 1 Diabetes?

Diet and Nutrition

DNA Fingerprinting: Can Blood Found at a Crime Scene Really Identify a Criminal?

Dolphin Communication

Fingerprints: A Lesson in Classification

Fish Heads: A Lesson on Adaptation

Hearing: Can I Damage My Hearing by Listening to Loud Music?

High Jump: How Do High Jumpers Set New Records?

Hip Replacement: How Do Artificial Implants Work in the Body?

How Do Sharks Find Their Prey?

In-Vitro Fertilization: What are "Test-Tube Babies" and How are They Made?

Jungle Survival: How Do People Survive in the Jungle without Food or Water?

Malaria Tracking: How Can You Locate Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes?

Medical Quackeries: Can This Machine Cure Me?

Modeling the Nervous System

Murder Mystery: How Do Forensic Scientists Help Solve Murders?

Mushroom Print

Nicotine: Why Is It So Hard to Quit Smoking?

Olympic Training Center: How Can Biomechanics Help an Athlete?

Peanut Power

Photosynthesis: How Do Plants Make Food?

Prosthetic Limbs

Reflexes

Rain Forest Animals

Reflexes: Why Does a Doctor Check My Reflexes When I Have a Check-Up?

Solar-Powered Car

Steroids: Do Athletes Need to Take Synthetic Steroids?

Tears: Why Do We Cry?

Taste and Smell: Why Does Food Seem Tasteless When You Have a Cold?

Why Do you Need a Liver?

Wild Lion Vets

Hands on activity on photosynthesis (6-8)

Fruits and Vegetables; Reproduction (6-8)

Transpiration experiment (5-8)

Making 3-D plant and animal cells (6-10)

Genetics - taster or non-taster (4-12)

Biology; Desert plant and animal adaptation (4-12)

Importance of trees in the rural area; Planting a Snowfence (5-12)

'How Cells Duplicate, Why and Where Something Can Go Wrong', study of DNA

'Jello Cells', excellent hands-on activity to study cells membranes & walls (6-9)

High School

AIDS: What Is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome?

Balloon Safari: How Does the Mara Ecosystem in Africa Work?

Biological Rhythyms

Body Fat: Is All Fat Bad?

Bone Marrow: What Is a Bone Marrow Transplant and How Does It Work?

Bones: How Do Bones Get So Strong?

Broken Bones

Cancer Causes: Why Do People Get Cancer?

Cancer Treatments: Is Cancer Curable?