BI-108 Library of Lessons

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Grade Level
All of the linking lessons are built around the grade 1-2 science standards.

Scientific Questioning
S1-2:1a - Students demonstrate their understanding of SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONING by...


 * Posing observational questions that compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, motion, etc. (e.g., How fast does a Lady Beetle move compared to a Bess Beetle?).

An Inside Look at Apples!

A Deeper Look Into Seeds

Guess Who?


 * Investigating and completing questions to identify a variablethat can be changed (e.g., What will happen if…? or I wonder if I change…?).

Beans in a Bag

Betta Fish Behavior

Cloud Creations


 * Generating new questions that could be explored at the end of an investigation.

Predicting and Hypothesizing
S1-2:2 - Students demonstrate their understanding of PREDICTING AND HYPOTHESIZING by…


 * Predicting a logical outcome to a situation, using prior knowledge, experience and/or evidence...and explaining reasons for that prediction.

Beans in a Bag

Betta Fish Behavior

Breaking Bones

Colorful Celery and Carnations

Disappearing Snow

Effects of Liquids on Your Body

Designing Experiments
S1-2:3 - Students demonstrate their understanding of EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN by…

a) What the experimenter will do. b) What will be observed, measured, and/or compared.
 * Writing a plan related to a question that includes:


 * Recording major steps sequentially.

Breaking Bones

Colorful Celery and Carnations

Colorful Nutrients

Conducting Experiments
S1-2:4 - Students demonstrate their ability to CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS by…


 * Referring to and following a simple plan for an investigation.

Breaking Bones

Colorful Celery and Carnations

Colorful Nutrients


 * Describing observations using senses rather than feelings (e.g., The snail has a hard shell with wavy, brown lines, rather than the snail is awesome).

Betta Fish Behavior

A Deeper Look Into Seeds

Colorful Celery and Carnations

Animal Inventions

Colorful Nutrients


 * Recording observations of similarities and differences

Animal Inventions

Betta Fish Behavior

A Deeper Look Into Seeds

Representing Data and Analysis
S1-2:5 - Students demonstrate their ability to REPRESENT DATA by…


 * Organizing a collection of data into a table or a graph template... AND creating a title for a table for a table or graph.

An Inside Look at Apples!

Guess Who?

Breaking Bones

Colorful Nutrients

Effects of Liquids on Your Body

Body Systems
S1-2:41 - Students demonstrate their understanding of Human Body Systems by…


 * Identifying the senses needed to meet survival needs for a given scenario. (ie. what do each of the five senses do for you?)

Mystery Senses

Taste Testers

Tantalizing Taste Buds

Touch N' Feel Box

Do you hear what I hear

Tongue tastes

Whose nose knows

Frogs vs. Hamsters: Using Your Senses

Exploring Food with Senses


 * The Circulatory System

Kick start your heart

My hard-working heart

Exercising the heart

Pulse-o-rama!


 * Germs and Health

Germs germs go away

Your Body: A Bacteria Incubator!

Ew! Gross! Germs!


 * Fingerprints

Fun with fingerprints

Fabulous Forensic Fingerprints


 * Skeletal System

What eggsactly is good for your teeth?

Breaking Bones

Effects of Liquids on Your Body


 * The Nervous System

Opening Our Minds

Little messengers


 * Other

Build a body

How smart are your muscles?

Inherited Traits

Caille the Caterpillar

Interdependence within Ecosystems
Exploring Animals and Their Environments

Can your seeds grow here?

Animal Inventions

Betta Fish Behavior

Biodome

Crawling to Flying: The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Citations and links

 * All of the lessons that this page links to were created by Saint Michael's College students in the Teaching Biology in Elementary Schools class within the last four years.
 * For a complete listing of Vermont Grade Expectations, click on the following link: []

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