Life Science

This highly engaging activity challenges students to decide if microorganisms that they observe under the microscope belong to the plant or animal kingdom. They will learn that scientists in the 1860’s had a similar challenge and solved it by...

This highly engaging activity (Google and PDF versions) using agar cubes (representing cells) explains why we are made up of trillions of cells and not just one big cell. The diffusion of “food” moving into the agar “cells” is...

These lessons are some of our favorites!  They are all classroom tested and ready for immediate implementation.  Within this series of highly engaging lessons, you will find embedded formative assessments and content rich activities which...

This is an assessment (Google and PDF versions) to evaluate the students’ understanding of the NGSS standard MS- LS1-2 This is an engaging activity in which students connect their understanding of the functions of the cell organelles...

This bundle includes 4 highly engaging lessons from our Engagers in Science unit "Cells, Cells, Cells!". These four lessons align with the philosophy of the NGSS,  including a focus on deeper understanding of content as well as application of...

This is a highly engaging unit for middle school students (Google and pdf versions) which meets the NGSS standards listed further below. It is aligned with the philosophy of the NGSS  including a focus on deeper understanding of...

This is an engaging activity (Google and PDF versions) in which students start to construct their own understanding of what a cell is and how it differs from nonliving things. The students will carry out an investigation to answer two...

This highly engaging lesson (Google and PDF versions) provides students with the structures to begin writing scientific explanations using a claim, evidence, reasoning platform. The lesson outlines why we use claim, evidence and reasoning (C.E.R) in...