6th Grade Biology Lesson (by date, oldest first)

Looking for an interactive activity for Earth Day? This activity and worksheet takes the students on a tour of numerous ecosystems using Google's 3D Expeditions. It can be self-paced with students answering questions along the way or teacher-led with you in the front acting as the tour guide. Perfect for a sub plans or a last minute Earth Day lesson plan.

This activity includes...

• Teacher notes and instructions
• Brief history of Earth Day
• Suggested activities for students to do at home for Earth Day
• Student worksheet featuring instructions and 24 short answer questions
• Bonus activity at the end

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.LS2.1: Evaluate and communicate the impact of environmental variables on population size.
• 6.LS2.4: Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes.
• 6.LS2.6: Research the ways in which an ecosystem has changed over time in response to changes in physical conditions, population balances, human interactions, and natural catastrophes.
• 6.LS4.1: Explain how changes in biodiversity would impact ecosystem stability and natural resources.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
• MS-LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
• MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

Practice the difference between structure and function and bring the excitement of Halloween into your classroom with this engaging and educational lesson plan! Perfect for middle school science classes, this lesson aligns with NGSS and Tennessee State Science Standards, making it a valuable addition to your curriculum.

In this hands-on activity, students will dissect and compare the structures of candy corn and real corn kernels. Through observation, discussion, and a taste test, students will explore the differences between natural and artificial products, and learn about the functions of various seed parts.

Key Concepts Covered or Practiced:

• Practicing making observations and differentiating between structure and function
• Structure and function of seed parts
• Sensory observation and descriptive language

Lesson Includes:

• Lesson Plan Slides: Instructions and tips to guide you through the lesson.
• Lab Worksheet: A comprehensive worksheet for students to record their observations and reflections.
• Slides Presentation: A visually appealing presentation to enhance your lesson and keep students engaged.

Add a Sweet Twist to Your Science Lessons! Make learning memorable with this unique lesson that blends education and fun. Your students will love the opportunity to explore science concepts while enjoying a tasty treat.

NGSS and Tennessee State Standards:

• NGSS MS-LS1-4 and Tennessee 6.LS1.3: Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.

Teach biomes with Halloween creatures! This is the Google Slides for the Halloween Creature Biomes. This lesson is perfect before or after Halloween. Students will use graphs and context clues to figure out which biome each creature belongs to.

Includes...

• Instructions for in class and distance learners.
• Worksheet for students to fill out
• Answer key
• Tips in the speaker notes

Tennessee State Standards

• 6.LS2.4 - Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes, specifically the tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, rainforest, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-LS2-1 - Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
• MS-LS2-3 - Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Teach biomes with Halloween creatures! This lesson is perfect before or after Halloween. Students will analyze graphs and use context clues to figure out which biome each creature belongs to.

Includes...

• Worksheet for students to fill out
• Script for kicking this engaging and fun activity off
• Keys in the speaker notes

Teacher note: I would print these, laminate them and put them in file folder with the creature file number on them to make them more mysterious and really get students excited about it! Each group gets one creature and then must identify which biome it belongs to. Buy the bundle for the slides that go along this activity!

Tennessee States Standards

• 6.LS2.4 - Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes, specifically the tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, rainforest, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-LS2-1 - Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
• MS-LS2-3 - Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

Teach biomes with Halloween creatures! This engaging and fun lesson is perfect before or after Halloween. Students will analyze graphs and use context clues to figure out which biome each creature belongs to.

This bundle includes...

• Instructions for in class and virtual learners.
• Worksheet for students to fill out
• Answer key
• Tips in the speaker notes
• Script to jumpstart the lesson and get students excited
• Printable Google docs for in class instruction
• Slide for distance/virtual learners to randomize which creature they get

Tennessee States Standards

• 6.LS2.4 - Using evidence from climate data, draw conclusions about the patterns of abiotic and biotic factors in different biomes, specifically the tundra, taiga, deciduous forest, desert, grasslands, rainforest, marine, and freshwater ecosystems.

NGSS - Middle School

• MS-LS2-1 - Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.
• MS-LS2-3 - Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.

End of Year "Science Talk" Activity for Middle and High School Students

This resource features an engaging "Science Talk" activity that will have your students thinking, writing, speaking, and moving all in one class period during the last week of school! In this activity, they must choose between 6 different quotes about science and articulate why the quote aligns with their perspective. I use this lesson at the end of every year to see how my students' perspectives on science have developed and matured throughout the school year. This is perfect if you are looking for an engaging lesson plan during the one of the toughest weeks of the year!

Product includes:

- Comprehensive Lesson Plan

- "Science Talk" Sheet for students to fill out

- 6 Corresponding "Science Quote" signs to hang up around your room

Though I utilize this product during the last week of school, it really can be used all year long. I hope that it is as successful in your class as it is in mine!

____________________________________________________________________________________

⭐Click to Follow Language Arts Excellence⭐

⭐ Sign up for my newsletter for freebies, news, and teacher tips!⭐

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?

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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?

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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)

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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)

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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.

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.

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

-Follow us on TeachShare to be informed with new products and updates.