BI-108 Library of Lessons
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Biology In Elementary Schools is a Saint Michael's College student project from a course that ran between 2007 and 2010 and fully described in this book chapter. The student-created resources have been preserved here for posterity. Link under 'toolbox' for printer-friendly versions of the exercises. Click on handouts to print full resolution versions. Please see Wikieducator's disclaimer, our safety statement, and the Creative Commons licensing in English and in legalese.
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?).
- Investigating and completing questions to identify a variablethat can be changed (e.g., What will happen if…? or I wonder if I change…?).
- 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.
Colorful Celery and Carnations
Effects of Liquids on Your Body
Designing Experiments
S1-2:3 - Students demonstrate their understanding of EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN by…
- Writing a plan related to a question that includes:
a) What the experimenter will do.
b) What will be observed, measured, and/or compared.
- Recording major steps sequentially.
Colorful Celery and Carnations
Conducting Experiments
S1-2:4 - Students demonstrate their ability to CONDUCT EXPERIMENTS by…
- Referring to and following a simple plan for an investigation.
Colorful Celery and Carnations
- 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).
Colorful Celery and Carnations
- Recording observations of similarities and differences
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.
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?)
Frogs vs. Hamsters: Using Your Senses
- The Circulatory System
- Germs and Health
Your Body: A Bacteria Incubator!
- Fingerprints
Fabulous Forensic Fingerprints
- Skeletal System
What eggsactly is good for your teeth?
Effects of Liquids on Your Body
- The Nervous System
- Other
Interdependence within Ecosystems
Exploring Animals and Their Environments
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: [[1]]
Common mistakes
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