Characteristics of Life: A Science Literacy lesson Activity

Searching for engaging, ready to go science literacy lesson to incorporate into your Middle or High School science classroom? Trying to find a resource that helps students who have a history of struggling with understanding science textbooks? Tired of the copy and paste responses from a search engine or chatgpt search that your students try to pass off as their own work? This Characteristics of Life: Science Literacy Lesson is sure to support your students in finding their own voice while still working with science content!

This lesson is modeled in a gradual release of responsibility set up, starting with an optional short video support to engage students background knowledge, then a teacher led, whole class practice on paraphrasing a passage. Afterwards, students pair up to complete a practice and finally finish with an individual practice and student self-reflection question sheet. This activity comes with 4 passages in total to allow for homework practice or scaffolded Independent practice.

Invest in your students' science literacy today and watch their confidence and curiosity soar!

What's Included in this PDF?

• Instructions with recommended intro video supports
• Student facing practices and
• Whole group practice answer key

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