8th Grade Biology Lesson

This bundle of science sub plans will keep your students engaged while you are out. Materials are print and go. Each set includes reading passages and recording sheets (and sometimes a little extra). Your substitute doesn't need any prior knowledge of the subject matter to be successful!

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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.

Are you a Biology teacher introducing your middle school students to Nutrition in Green Plants - chlorophyllic plants - photosynthesis - absorption - Hypogenous germination**?** 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?

✦ 53 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Define chlorophyllic plants.

✦ List the nutritional needs of chlorophyllic plants to grow.

✦ Define absorption.

✦ Indicate the structure responsible for absorption.

✦ Hypogenous germination with labels

✦ Define transpiration.

✦ Explain the relationship between transpiration and absorption.

✦ Define conducting vessels.

✦ Indicate the role of conducting vessels.

✦ Define organic matter.

✦ Explain the procedure to indicate the presence of starch.

✦ List the factors that plants need to produce organic matter.

✦ Define photosynthesis.

✦ Explain photosynthesis reaction.

✦ Insect Pollination and Plant Cell.

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Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this product include: the heart, 4 parts of the heart - right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle, circulatory system relating with the heart, carbon dioxide, and oxygen.

This digital product review can be used as an adapted review for students who need more support. Students can complete this review as a group, independently, or with help. The key is on the left side of the PowerPoint and the answers can be moved to each blank. An answer key is provided.

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Photosynthesis is the method through which green plants and some other organisms convert light energy into chemical energy. In green plants, light energy is absorbed during photosynthesis and utilized to transform water, carbon dioxide, and minerals into oxygen and organic compounds rich in energy.

It would be unthinkable to undervalue the significance of photosynthesis in sustaining life on Earth. If photosynthesis stopped, there would quickly be minimal food or other organic materials on Earth. The majority of organisms would vanish, and eventually Earth's atmosphere would be almost lacking in gaseous oxygen. The only organisms that could survive in such conditions would be chemosynthetic bacteria, which can harness the chemical energy from specific inorganic compounds and are therefore independent of light energy conversion.

Utilize this useful lesson plan to instruct your students on the process of photosynthesis. Numerous activities are included, intended to take approximately 90 minutes. Photocopiable worksheets for students and their answers are also included at the end.

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!

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Need some notes that you can do whole group AND have the "you do" portion incorporated? This is great for doing notes with the class, discussing energy pyramid, trophic levels, practicing the 10% rule and more! The students won't have time to be unengaged and it is great practice AND study guide!

• Are you looking for spring science and STEAM challenges to do with your middle school students?

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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.

Are you a Biology teacher introducing your middle school students to Reproductive Behavior in Animals? 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?

✦ 23 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Introduction to Reproductive Behavior in Animals.

✦ Mating Systems in Animals.

✦ Sexual Selection and Courtship Displays.

✦ Parental Care and Nurturing Behaviors.

✦ Reproductive Strategies in Invertebrates.

✦ Reproductive Strategies in Vertebrates.

✦ Hormonal Regulation of Reproduction.

✦ Seasonal Breeding and Environmental Cues.

✦ Evolutionary Perspectives on Reproductive Behavior.

✦ Implications for Conservation and Wildlife Management.

✦ Define partners, sexual reproduction sexual dimorphism, and courtship parade.

✦ Identify behavioral & morphological differences between a male & a female of the same species.

✦ Identify that the courtship behavior of males & females during breeding seasons often leads to mating.

✦ Identify that reproduction is possible without mating.

✦ Determine that in some animals mating occurs regularly at a specific annual period.

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This product includes quick notes for students who should focus on the important details of the nervous system

Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: the nervous system and how it works, brain, spinal cord, and nerves are controlled in the nervous system, nerves, neurons, messages that are sent from your hand to brain very fast, labeling the parts of the brain, control center for the body is the brain and the spinal cord and why, and why your nerves do not wait for a message, it just happens - reflex. 

These notes can also be used as adapted notes for students who need more support. This packet includes notes with short answer questions based on what was reviewed in the notes. Students will also answer questions using a key to review vocabulary covered in this lesson as well. 

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Does your middle school need consistent science vocabulary development across Earth, Life, and Physical Science classes? Then this is the resource for you! This bundle contains over 480 words that are used in teaching the NGSS. There are definitions as well as pictures on most cards. Teachers are encouraged to display each overarching area, then place the standard under the area along with the 'I can" bubble. The words for each standard should be placed under it. When used like this it encourages students to read, use, and spell words correctly during their assignments. There are also vocabulary sheets that can placed in student binders or notebooks.

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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.

Are you a Biology teacher introducing your middle school students to Respiration in Aerial and Aquatic Medium? 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?

✦ 20 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Introduction to Respiration in Aquatic Medium

✦ Importance of Aquatic Respiration

✦ Adaptations for Aquatic Respiration

✦ Respiratory Organs in Aquatic Organisms

✦ Oxygen Uptake and Transport in Aquatic Environments

✦ Factors Affecting Aquatic Respiration

✦ Challenges and Limitations of Aquatic Respiration

✦ Define tracheal respiration.

✦ Indicate the pathway of air during respiration in insects.

✦ Explain respiratory movements in insects.

✦ Define cutaneous respiration.

✦ List the characteristics of skin that facilitate respiration.

✦ Define gill respiration.

✦ Explain how gaseous exchange occurs in fish.

✦ List the characteristics of gills.

✦ Explain the effect of temperature on respiratory rhythm.

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This product includes a quick vocabulary review for students who should focus on the important details of the digestive system - the human body.

Vocabulary words that are emphasized in this packet include: digestive system and where it begins, small intestine, large intestine, nutrients - fats/oils, dairy, meat, fruit, vegetables, and grains, and the levels of cellular organization - organism, organ system, organ, tissue, and cells.

These notes can also be used as adapted notes for students who need more support. This packet includes a quick vocabulary review based on the digestive system. A key is provided for the fill in the blank answers.

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Students will learn about the life cycle of the periodic cicadas! These amazing insects only appear every 17 years! There is an article, questions with an answer key, suggested videos, and more!

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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.