Biology Student Practice

Hydroponic Food-Growing System STEM Investigation - Soil-free food-growing

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TWFScience

Students will investigate hydroponics, plant growth, and sustainable food production by designing and building their own soil-free food-growing system. Using a simple reservoir, nutrient solution, growing medium, and fast-growing plant, students explore how plants can receive the water and nutrients

6th - 11th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-3

Also included in: STEM Investigations Growing Bundle — Scientific Method, Design, Data & CER

Food Chains and Food Webs Worksheet Bundle + Energy Flow in Ecosystems Lesson

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TWFScience

Help your students understand food chains, food webs, energy flow, trophic levels, and species interactions with this comprehensive middle school ecology worksheet bundle. These 12 resources combine direct instruction, informational readings, video worksheets, digital learning, and engaging cipher p

6th - 10th Biology, Earth Sciences, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+16

Characteristics of Living Things Reading Comprehension | Grade 8 and Up

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TWFScience

Characteristics of Living Things: How Scientists Determine What Is Alive Reading Comprehension Passage and QuestionsThis reading explores how scientists determine whether something is alive by examining the shared characteristics of living organisms. Students learn why displaying a single life-like

8th - 12th Anatomy, Biology, General Science

Also included in: Characteristics of Living Things Lesson Bundle | What is Life, Living, Nonliving

Characteristics of Living Things Reading | What is Life? | 6th, 7th, 8th Grade

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TWFScience

This Grade 6–8 reading comprehension article and questions introduces students to the characteristics shared by living things and how scientists determine whether something is alive. Students explore why showing one life-like feature—such as growing, moving, responding, or releasing energy—is not en

6th - 8th Anatomy, Biology, General Science

Also included in: Characteristics of Living Things Lesson Bundle | What is Life, Living, Nonliving

Characteristics of Living Things Lesson | Living vs Nonliving | 6, 7, 8th Grade

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TWFScience

This 7 Characteristics of Living Things lesson introduces students to the major characteristics shared by living organisms in a clear, student-friendly way This middle school life science lesson builds understanding without overwhelming learners. Students examine familiar examples—including plants r

6th - 8th Science, Biology, General Science

Also included in: Characteristics of Living Things Lesson Bundle | What is Life, Living, Nonliving

Characteristics of Living Things Data Graphing Lab Bundle 6th, 7th, 8th Grade

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TWFScience

These three characteristics of living things data graphing activities will help your students understand how organisms grow and develop, obtain and use energy, respond to environmental changes, and maintain stable internal conditions—all while building strong graphing and data-analysis skills. This

6th - 9th Graphing, Biology, General Science

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-4+3

Also included in: Characteristics of Living Things Lesson Bundle | What is Life, Living, Nonliving

Ecosystem Health & Biodiversity Data Graphing Lab Bundle 6th, 7th, 8th Grade

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TWFScience

These three ecosystem health and biodiversity data graphing activities will help your students understand how habitat loss, invasive species, environmental conditions, and pollinator changes affect populations, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and ecosystem balance—all while building strong graphin

6th - 9th Graphing, Biology, Environment

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-4+3

Also included in: Middle School Science Graphing & Data Analysis Bundle | Real-World Data 6, 7, 8

What Makes Something Alive Reading Comprehension | Grade 8 and Up

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TWFScience

What Makes Something Alive? Living, Once-Living, and Nonliving Reading Comprehension Passage and QuestionsThis reading explores how scientists use evidence to classify objects as living, once-living, biologically produced but never independently living, or nonliving. Students learn that appearance,

8th - 12th Anatomy, Biology, General Science

Also included in: Science Reading Comprehension Article Mega Bundle | Grade 8 and Up

What Makes Something Alive? Reading | Living, Once-Living, Nonliving | 6, 7, 8th

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TWFScience

This Grade 6–8 reading comprehension article and questions helps students determine what makes something alive by comparing living, once-living, and nonliving objects at the appropriate reading level. Students learn that movement, growth, or appearance alone cannot prove that something is alive. Ins

6th - 8th Anatomy, Biology, General Science

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-4, MS-LS2-5

Also included in: Reading Comprehension Article & Question Mega Bundle | 6th, 7th, 8th Grade

Is Yeast Alive? STEM Investigation | What Makes Something Alive?

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TWFScience

Students will investigate yeast, cellular energy use, and the characteristics of living things by comparing yeast under four different experimental conditions. Using bottles, balloons, sugar, yeast, and warm and cold water, students explore how the presence of yeast, sugar availability, and temperat

7th - 11th Biology, Chemistry, Engineering

Also included in: STEM Investigations Growing Bundle — Scientific Method, Design, Data & CER

Prescribed Burns Decision Challenge | Forest Management, Forest Fire Management

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TWFScience

This Prescribed Burns Decision Challenge will help your students understand how fire ecology, fuel buildup, wildfire risk, succession, biodiversity, forest recovery, and human impact are connected. This activity gives teachers an easy, NO PREP way to have students analyze ecology data, compare fores

6th - 10th Biology, Environment, General Science

NGSS MS-LS2-1, MS-LS2-2, MS-LS2-3+3

Also included in: Real World Ecology Decision Challenges Bundle | Ecosystems Activity

Genetics and Environment - Trait Distribution Data Graphing Bundle | HIGH SCHOOL

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TWFScience

These three genetics and environment data graphing activities will help your students understand how genetic probability predicts inherited traits, why observed trait ratios vary among samples, and how environmental conditions affect the distribution of expressed traits—all while building strong gra

9th - 12th Graphing, Biology

NGSS HS-LS3-2, HS-LS3-3

Animal Task Cards – Grades 1–3 | Science Discussion Cards

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Asa Jomard

Animal Task Cards – Grades 1–3 | Science Discussion Cards Make learning about animals exciting and interactive with these 24 Animal Task Cards! Perfect for science centers, early finishers, whole-class discussions, or indoor recess activities, these cards get young learners thinking and talking about

1st - 3rd Biology, General Science

NGSS K-ESS3-1, 2-LS4-1

Animal Task Cards Grades 3+ | GATE Science Critical Thinking

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Asa Jomard

Animal Task Cards Grades 3+ | GATE Science Critical Thinking What has the most powerful bite in the animal kingdom? Which bird sleeps mid-flight? Why can a wood frog freeze solid and thaw back to life? This collection of task cards turns the animal kingdom into a trivia adventure, challenging student

3rd - 5th Biology, General Science

NGSS 3-LS3-1, 3-LS3-2

Ocean Animals Task Cards — 24 Question Cards with Recording Sheet and Answer Key

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Asa Jomard

Ocean Animals Task Cards — 24 Question Cards with Recording Sheet and Answer KeyHow well do your students really know the ocean?These Ocean Animals Task Cards turn science review into an exciting underwater adventure, challenging young learners to think carefully about the amazing creatures that cal

1st - 3rd Biology, General Science, Marine Science