6th Grade Biology Lesson

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.

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.

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 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 looking for a creative & unique project to spice up your Life Science unit? Unlock the interesting world of Photosynthesis and Respiration with this interactive and visual blackout poem project. While creating these poems, your students will delve into the fundamental principles of Biology and Earth Science. This Photosynthesis and Respiration activity will enable your students to comprehend the world around them in a educational and creative way. Everything you need for this visual project is included; EZ step-by-step procedures, sample student exemplars and a simple rubric.

• What is a Blackout Poem? Students create blackout poems using nonfiction science readings (included!). By highlighting important words and phrases and "blacking out" the rest of the reading, a unique poem is created. Draw or paint a related image on the blackened out space to finish off your creativity project.

ENGAGE your kids with this print and go project based learning activity. This blackout poem is designed to help students understand important key science concepts. It project fits well with NGSS, MYP and other International science standards. It also makes a great sub plan.

What's Included in this Fossils Blackout Poem Project?

★ Clear and easy to follow editable student directions- digital and printable.

★ Editable project specifics and expectations.

★ Exemplar student projects.

★ Non Fiction Reading and Comprehension Questions.

★ Quick Prep Info and Instructor Directions.

How To Use This Resource?

★ This creativity activity can be used with multiple age groups and requires 2-4 class periods to complete.

★ Use this activity as a review of unit topics or as a creative summative assessment.

What Topics are Covered with this Project?

★ Photosynthesis Process

★ Respiration Process

★ The Carbon Cycle

Nitty Gritty:

Aligned with the Next Generation, MYP and other common state and international science standards, this project is a valuable resource for science teachers looking to engage their students and reinforce key concepts. It's perfect for use as a part of a Life Science unit. It can also be used as a stand alone activity related to the the Plant and Animal Cellular Processes.

The blackout poem project includes a comprehensive worksheet that guides students through the process of creating these visual poems.

Thank you for considering this product for your classroom!

What other teachers have said about Super Star Science products:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- C. A. I LOVED this resource!!! This was one of my favorite assignments I gave to my students this year. Many of them have never tried blackout poetry before, so they were really challenged to push their creative boundaries and the results were super cool. 10/10 recommend!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Samantha White. I loved this resource! It was such a great, creative approach that also tied on other disciplines. It also made for some pretty, yet educational, art work for our classroom! Thank you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Robyn G.- I love these templates and the idea of concise projects! I have printed them and provided them online for digital use for my students--thank you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Stephanie C.H. Loved it!! What an engaging challenge to use in online school and with younger grades! This activity is so well explained and set up. The visuals are very clear and the instructions make it easy to use this challenge without much work ahead of time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Ann H. This is one of the most original and creative project-based lessons I have seen. Students are highly engaged in the subject matter....

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Check out a few of my other science and engineering resources.

*Marshmallow Catapults

*Science Careers & Fields Research Project- "Science 'Ology"

*The Rainbow Lab- Detailed Lab Procedures Practice

*Fun Video Claim, Evidence & Reasoning Analysis Activity Middle School

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*EZ Engineering Bundle

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Are you looking for a creative & unique project to spice up your Human Impacts on the Environment unit? Unlock the interesting world of the HUMAN IMPACT and EXTINCTION with this interactive and visual blackout poem project. While creating these poems, your students will delve into the fundamental principles of Biology- Human Impacts. This activity will enable your students to comprehend the world around them in a educational and creative way. Everything you need for this visual project is included; EZ step-by-step procedures, sample student exemplars and a simple rubric.

• What is a Blackout Poem? Students create blackout poems using nonfiction science readings (included!). By highlighting important words and phrases and "blacking out" the rest of the reading, a unique poem is created. Draw or paint a related image on the blackened out space to finish off your creativity project.

ENGAGE your kids with this print and go project based learning activity. This blackout poem is designed to help students understand important key science concepts. It project fits well with NGSS, MYP and other International science standards. It also makes a great sub plan.

What's Included in this Fossils Blackout Poem Project?

★ Clear and easy to follow editable student directions- digital and printable.

★ Editable project specifics and expectations.

★ Exemplar student projects.

★ Non Fiction Reading and Comprehension Questions.

★ Quick Prep Info and Instructor Directions.

How To Use This Resource?

★ This creativity activity can be used with multiple age groups and requires 2- 4 class periods to complete.

★ Use this activity as a review of unit topics or as a creative summative assessment.

What Topics are Covered with this Project?

★ Extinction

★ Human Impact on the Land- Pollution, Global Climate Change & Biodiversity Loss

Nitty Gritty:

Aligned with the Next Generation, MYP and other common state and international science standards, this project is a valuable resource for science teachers looking to engage their students and reinforce key concepts. It's perfect for use as a part of a Biology or Human Impacts unit. It can also be used as a stand alone activity related to Extinction of organisms.

The blackout poem project includes a comprehensive worksheet that guides students through the process of creating these visual poems.

Thank you for considering this product for your classroom!

What other teachers have said about Super Star Science products:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- C. A. I LOVED this resource!!! This was one of my favorite assignments I gave to my students this year. Many of them have never tried blackout poetry before, so they were really challenged to push their creative boundaries and the results were super cool. 10/10 recommend!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Samantha White. I loved this resource! It was such a great, creative approach that also tied on other disciplines. It also made for some pretty, yet educational, art work for our classroom! Thank you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Robyn G.- I love these templates and the idea of concise projects! I have printed them and provided them online for digital use for my students--thank you!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Stephanie C.H. Loved it!! What an engaging challenge to use in online school and with younger grades! This activity is so well explained and set up. The visuals are very clear and the instructions make it easy to use this challenge without much work ahead of time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- Ann H. This is one of the most original and creative project-based lessons I have seen. Students are highly engaged in the subject matter....

★______________________________________________★

Check out a few of my other science and engineering resources.

*Marshmallow Catapults

*Science Careers & Fields Research Project- "Science 'Ology"

*The Rainbow Lab- Detailed Lab Procedures Practice

*Fun Video Claim, Evidence & Reasoning Analysis Activity Middle School

Purchase a Bundle and SAVE!

*EZ Engineering Bundle

Please visit my at my TeachShare Store: Super Star Science: https://www.TeachShare.com/Store/Super-Star-Science

❣️If you and your kids enjoyed this activity, please leave me a review to get TeachShare credits to buy more great products!❣️

Be sure to FOLLOW me on:

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✓Facebook for new products, fun photos and science teaching ideas!

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All rights reserved by Kim Karper. This single user product is to be used by the original purchaser only. Please do not share this product with other teachers. If you would like to have multiple users for this document, please note that TeachShare offers multiple license options.

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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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

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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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• 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 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

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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)

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

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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)

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

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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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• 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 Atoms? 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?

✦ 13 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Atoms Definition

✦ Compartments of the atoms And its particles

✦ Model of the Atom

✦ Particles

✦ HISTORY OF ATOM MODEL

✦ Democritus

✦ Dalton (balling ball model)

✦ Thomson (plum pudding model)

✦ Rutherford

✦ Bohr

✦ Modern atomic model

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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 Line graph? 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?

✦ 17 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What is a line graph

✦ What are the variables

✦ How to draw a line graph

✦ Steps to analyze the line 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 Writing a Hypothesis in a Scientific Method? 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?

✦ 39 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Writing a Hypothesis in a Scientific Method

✦ practice writing a hypothesis

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• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Compare and Conclude? 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?

✦ 22 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ Indicating the similarities and differences

✦ Characteristics or properties

✦ comparing visually

✦ Transitions or signal words

✦ Apply Examples on Compare and conclude

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• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Invertebrates? 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?

✦ 18 total slides for notes and examples.

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

✦ Classes of Invertebrates (Cnidarians, Echinoderms, Sponges, Mollusks, Arthropods, Worms)

• Name of each class
• Examples for each class
• Characteristics of each class
• Type of symmetry in each class

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• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Nervous 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?

✦ 20 total slides for notes and examples.

Throughout the Lesson, students will be introduced to the following:
✦ What makes up the nervous system?

✦ Main Parts of the Nervous System

✦ What are the functions of the nervous system?

✦ The Five Senses

✦ Functions of Some Organs

✦ Nervous System with Labels

✦ Pathways of Messages in the Nervous System (voluntary and involuntary Action)

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• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
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Are you a Science teacher introducing your Upper Elementary students to Protists - Kingdoms of Living Things? 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:
✦ Protists definition

✦ Kingdom of Protists:

• Plant-like Protist
• Animal-like Protist
• Fungus-like Protist

✦ Protozoa Environment

✦ Examples of Protozoa

✦ Diatoms

✦ Examples of Fungus-like Protists

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• In-Classroom Teaching (Displaying for the Whole Class)
• Online Learning
• Homeschooling
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