Biology/Life Science

How are living things structured and organized at both the macroscopic and microscopic levels? How do many organisms interact in an ecosystem? How do populations change over time?

LSET

Listed here are all of the websites references in the Life Science for Everyday Thinking curriculum.

 

Ecology 2 - Food Webs

Based on the website http//www.bigelow.org/edhab OverviewThis discussion begins with a review of how energy transfers through food webs and then engages students in assembling a food web with a small set ...

3. Walking Whales

  Students will use the information they have learned about the evidence scientists use to prove the theory of evolution in a real life look at an authentic question about ...

2. Animals of Point Reyes

  Students will use their knowledge gained of both the habitats, and types of adaptations that animals use to survive in their environments.  They will create a fictitious animal that will ...

1. Mariposas

  The purpose of this lesson is to start a dialog on the importance of adaptations to a species and individuals survival.  In the end students will understand how animals use ...

Evolution Box Block Plan

Week 1 - Pretrip

Monday - Observation Mariposas in the classroom, camouflaging into the room, see whose lasts the longest between 6th and 7th grade.   

College Biology Box

This series of activities is designed to complement a semester long introductory biology course for non-majors (general education) at a 4 year university. These activities are designed to be used ...

Evolution Assessment

Performance Tasks Students will be able to design an organism that could live in Pt Reyes, both today and what adaptations it would need in order to live there in one ...

Evolution Box

Big Ideas It is a big concept for students to comprehend, that we live on a dynamic Earth that is continually changing.  What is even harder for them to grasp is ...

Biology for Future Elementary Teachers

Here's my current syllabus for an introductory college biology course for undergraduates planning on entering elementary teaching. This is NOT your traditionalcollege biology course. The goal of this course is ...