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This listing features a two-page hierarchy of life fill-in-the-blank lesson with a bonus section at the end where students brainstorm the defining characteristics of life. Students fill in the blanks to complete the flow chart of life with or without the use of the supplemental word bank on the backside. The word bank houses thirty-nine terms/short connecting phrases.

I assign this lesson in my high school biology class, but this lesson could be modified and used in a middle school life science course. This document will become editable upon conversion to Microsoft Word using an Adobe Acrobat Reader DC app. When I facilitate this lesson, I typically will give students the first half hour to complete as much as they can. I then like to project the student copy on the SMART Board and recruit students’ help in completing it in front of the class.

At the completion of this activity, students will have an awesome one-page study guide that displays:

· The hierarchy (flow chart) of life from subatomic particle to organism

· A listing of the characteristics that define life

· The two main classifications of organisms (producers and consumers) and their relation to glucose

· The charges of subatomic particles

· The number of ways the four main atoms of life bond via atomic symbol

· A listing of the four major macromolecules and key molecular example listing of each

· A listing of the monomers branching off of “Molecules” that build the macromolecules

· A side text box that highlights water as a polar molecule that attracts to one another with hydrogen bonds

· A side comment, that depicts “Cells” as the smallest/basic unit of life to reinforce a pillar of the cell theory

Wow, all of that is packaged into one summative study guide! What a valuable resource for a unit about cell chemistry!

I provided a key with the answers in red font.

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