Elementary School Biology Lesson (by date, oldest first)

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IN ADDITION, this resource includes an information handout about "The Earth." Through this resource, students will develop a better understanding of how the Earth works and why it is important to protect it.

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IN ADDITION, this resource includes an information handout about "The Earth." Through this resource, students will develop a better understanding of how the Earth works and why it is important to protect it.

WHAT IS A DIORAMA?

A diorama is a 3D scene designed to depict a particular topic or concept. These miniature scenes are assembled using various materials layered together, often within a shoebox or similar container, to visually represent different aspects of the chosen subject.

Students can construct a diorama by cutting, coloring, painting, and gluing different components inside the box. This allows them to create models that convey specific scenarios like historical events or animals in their habitats. They can enhance their scenes by incorporating natural elements like grass, sand, or twigs.

While these dioramas don't come with strict assembly guidelines, students should familiarize themselves with the subject first and then creatively use provided materials to design their unique diorama. This hands-on activity encourages learning in a fun and engaging way.

SIMPLY PRINT - Print the pieces on sturdy cardstock and allow students to explore as an extension of their lesson plans.

Students will make a life size model of the human body as they learn about the systems of the body. This Unit supports the Next Generation Science Standards.

The “Science Kids” series is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning. All activities can be differentiated to meet the needs of your students.

As we make the life size body model, the students will learn about:

★ The skeletal system (bones)

★ The respiratory system (lungs)

★ The muscular system (muscles)

★ The cardiovascular system (heart, veins and arteries)

★ The digestive system (stomach and intestines)

★ The nervous system (spine and brain)

This packet also includes a printable book: “My Amazing Body” (black and white)

Suggestions for additional activities are included (including printable activities)

The Science Kids curriculum is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning. All activities can be differentiated to meet the needs of your students.

This year long bundle includes 16 Science Units:

• “What do Scientists Do?”

• “Floating and Sinking”

• “Color Mixing”

• “Magnets”

• “Kitchen Chemistry”

• “Ramps”

• “Mirrors”

• “Gingerbread Science”

• “Freezing and Melting”

• “My Human Body”

• “Music and Vibration”

• “Shadows and Light”

• “Weather and Temperature”

• “Taking Care of the Earth”

• “Taking Care of Pets”

• “Taking Care of Plants”

This packet includes enough lessons for 32 weeks of hands-on learning. While 32 weeks is a bit shorter than a typical school year, this curriculum is designed to be flexible in order to give children the time they need to learn, so extra days are allowed for each unit. Additional, optional activities are also included for many of the units, and these can be used to help fill your days if needed.

This curriculum supports the Next Generation Science Standards for kindergarten.

Please see my other Science products if you want to supplement this curriculum.

The “Science Kids” series of packets is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning.

(*Save money by purchasing the entire Year Long Science Curriculum in one bundle.)

This bundle contains enough science activities to fill the third quarter of the school year (About 8 weeks)

Freezing and Melting:

Investigations in this unit include:

★ "Ice Treasures"

★ "Light or Dark?"

★ "Adding Salt and Color"

★"Ice Cube Race"

★ "Which is Heavier?"

★ "Oil and Ice"

★ "Painting with Ice"

The final investigation in this unit is a student-designed investigation that will test how certain ingredients affect the time it takes an ice cube to melt.

The packet also includes a fun recipe for Ice Cream in a Bag! (And the scientific explanation for how this recipe works.)

My Human Body

As we make the life size body model, the students will learn about:

★ The skeletal system (bones)

★ The respiratory system (lungs)

★ The muscular system (muscles)

★ The cardiovascular system (heart, veins and arteries)

★ The digestive system (stomach and intestines)

★ The nervous system (spine and brain)

This packet also includes a printable book: “My Amazing Body” (black and white)

Suggestions for additional activities are included (including printable activities)

Music and Vibration

As they learn about vibrations and sound, the students will explore the following hands-on topics:

★ "Balloon Drums"

★ "Seeing Sound Vibrations"

★ "Cardboard Kazoos"

★ "Spoon Sounds"

★ "Rubber Band Guitars"

★ "Buzzing Balloons"

The two-week unit will conclude with the students creating their own unique instruments.

This unit also includes pocket chart word cards for many common percussion instruments.

Shadows and Light

Ten hands-on lessons about shadows are included:

★ Discovering Shadows

★ Outdoor Shadows

★ Is a Shadow Always Black?

★ A Moving Shadow

★ Big and Small Shadows

★ Shadow Detectives

★ Multiple Shadows

★ Shadow Tracings

★ Shadow Charades

★ A Shadow Show (Reflecting on What We've Learned)

This unit also includes extension activities and printables.

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Respiratory System? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 37 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What is the Respiratory System?

✦ What is Respiration?

✦ What are the respiratory system organs?

✦ How do the organs function?

✦ What Happens When We Breathe?

✦ Circulatory System

✦ Vessels

✦ Veins Arteries and Capillaries

✦ What are the blood components or elements?

✦ What is the function of each blood component?

✦ What blood element they look like?

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• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
• Sharing on Google Classroom or Other Platforms as a Tool for Revision

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Excretory System & Competencies - Organs of the excretory system (kidneys, Ureters, Urinary Bladder, Urethra)? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 42 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What do people do with rotten fruits?

✦ What do you think happens to the unwanted liquid waste in your body?

✦ What is the Excretory System?

✦ What are the two functions OF the excretory system?

✦ What are the Four organs & cells in charge of the excretory system?

✦ Organs of the excretory system (kidneys, Ureters, Urinary Bladder, Urethra)

✦ Competencies (Problem, Hypothesis, Compare, Infer, Conclude)

✦ How does sweat excrete our body?

✦ Competencies Bar Graph - How to Construct a Bar Graph

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• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
• Sharing on Google Classroom or Other Platforms as a Tool for Revision

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Diseases? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 43 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What is a disease?

✦ What causes diseases?

✦ So how many groups of diseases are there?

✦ What are the alien organisms that invade the body, causing infectious diseases?

✦ How are pathogens transmitted (carried) to humans?

✦ What are some infectious diseases caused by bacteria, and how are they transmitted to people?

✦ What are some common symptoms (signs) of salmonellosis, cholera, and strep throat diseases?

✦ What are some common symptoms of Lyme disease?

✦ What are some common infectious diseases caused by viruses?

✦ What are some common symptoms of cold and the flu?

✦ What are some deadly viral diseases?

✦ What causes non-infectious diseases?

✦ What is an example of an inherited disease?

✦ What is an example of a disease that appears as a body ages?

✦ What is an example of a disease that is caused by poor nutrition?

✦ What is an example of a disease that is caused by malfunction in the body?

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• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Endocrine System Part 2? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 55 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Endocrine System Major Glands

• Adrenal Glands
• Pancreas (Insulin, glucagon)
• Diabetes

✦ What Is the Fight and Flight Response?

This resource is great for:

• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
• Sharing on Google Classroom or Other Platforms as a Tool for Revision

To check out Endocrine System (Part 1) Click here

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Digestive System? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 57 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What happens to the food you eat?

✦ What kind of nutrients are in the food we eat?

✦ Different kinds of food

✦ How much should we eat of every kind of food?

✦ How do we write a problem, hypothesis, and conclusion?

✦ How do we compare?

✦ How does our body turn food into nutrients?

✦ How does the digestive system work?

✦ Digestive Juices

✦ The Small Intestine

✦ Practice Exercise

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Muscular System - Muscles? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 33 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Types of Muscle Tissues

✦ Aspects of Muscle Tissues

✦ Skeletal Muscle Tissues

✦ Smooth Muscle Tissues

✦ Cardiac Muscle Tissues

✦ Body Front and Back Muscles View

✦ Head Facial Muscles

✦ Muscles Characteristics

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• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Skeletal System part 2? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 27 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Types of Joints

✦ Movable and Immovable Joints

✦ Joints on a skeleton

• 1- hinge joint
• 2- ball and socket joint
• 3- condyloid joint
• 4- pivot joint
• 5- plane joint
• 6- saddle joint

✦ Deformations of the Skeleton

This resource is great for:

• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
• Sharing on Google Classroom or Other Platforms as a Tool for Revision

To check out Skeletal System (Part 1) Click here

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Animal Classification? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 37 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Animal Kingdom

✦ Classifying Animals

✦ Characteristics of Animals

✦ Symmetry (Radial, Bilateral, Asymmetry)

✦ Levels of Classification (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species)

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Bacteria? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 35 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Kingdoms of Living Things “Bacteria”

✦ Mention the Six Kingdoms

✦ Bacteria Shapes

✦ Round-Shaped Bacteria – Cocci

✦ Rod-Shaped Bacteria

✦ Spirochetes

✦ Good vs. Bad Bacteria

✦ Archaebacteria vs. Eubacteria

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Plant and Animal Cells? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 27 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Unicellular Organisms

✦ Multicellular Organisms

✦ Cells Under the Microscope

✦ Animal Cell vs. Plant Cell

✦ Plant & Animal Cell Parts

✦ Organelles

✦ Cell Membrane

✦ Cytoplasm

✦ Nucleus

✦ Mitochondria

✦ Vacuole

✦ Cell Wall

✦ Chloroplast

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Fighting Disease? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 37 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What do people do with rotten fruits?

✦ Fighting Disease

✦ How many defenses does our body have?

✦ First Line of Defense

✦ What do the eyelashes, mucus, and earwax do?

✦ What do tears, saliva, and acid do?

✦ Why does inflammation make the area red, swollen, warm, and painful?

✦ physical and chemical barriers

✦ Second Line of Defense

✦ Inflammation & Phagocytosis

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• Homeschooling
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Vertebrates? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 29 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Vertebrates definition

✦ Classes of vertebrates (Cold-blooded, Warm-blooded)

✦ Cold-blooded vertebrates definition and examples

✦ Warm-blooded vertebrates definition and examples

✦ Mammals Reproduction (Monotremes, Marsupials, Placentals)

✦ Vertebrates Warm-Blooded (Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores)

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Immune System? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 30 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Fighting Disease Review

✦ What if the first and second lines of defense fail in preventing a pathogen from entering our body?

✦ What is the immune system?

✦ How does the immune system work?

✦ The immune system follows a three-step attack in its fight:

• 1st step is to identify the invading pathogen.
• 2nd step is to kill the pathogen.
• 3rd step is to remember the pathogen.

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Skeletal System part 1? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 32 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What are the parts of the skeletal system?

✦ What are the functions of skeletal system?

✦ List of some bones of the skeletal system

✦ Joints

✦ Parts of a joint

✦ Kinds of Bones

✦ Bar graph, Compare, and Conclude

This resource is great for:

• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
• Sharing on Google Classroom or Other Platforms as a Tool for Revision

To check out Skeletal System (Part 2) Click here

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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Endocrine System Part 1? Notes and examples are included. You can also easily convert this to a Google Slides lesson by dragging it into your Google Drive.

What is included?

✦ 44 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Endocrine System Function

✦ Endocrine System Major Glands

• Pituitary Gland
• Thyroid Gland
• Thymus Gland

This resource is great for:

• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
• Sharing on Google Classroom or Other Platforms as a Tool for Revision

To check out Endocrine System (Part 2) Click here

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