Resource: University of Utah presents a comprehensive set of lesson plans and pdf worksheets, answer keys and overhead masters for teaching genetics. Here is a list of the content: http://teach.genetics.utah.edu/content/
Grade Suitability: 11,12, AE |
Resource: 38 You Tube videos - a complete course on biology and chemistry in a fast, fresh and entertaining format. Has Bill Gates' stamp of approval, for what it's worth.
Grade Suitability 9,10,11,12, AE Parental preview or guidance advised if sensitive. |
Essential Life Science by learner.org. This course is composed of eight sessions, each with a one-hour video program addressing a topic area in the life sciences that is likely to be part of any elementary school science curriculum. Posing the question “What is life?”, the course begins by defining life and by considering how life forms are classified. Animal and plant life cycles then become the focus for investigating the continuity of life. Next, diversity within the living world provides the context for exploring the basics of biological evolution. Finally, large-scale biological processes are introduced by looking at how energy and matter enter and move through the living world.
Grade Suitability: 2,3,4,5,6
Resource: Eight sessions covering the basics of elementary life science |
Biology 4 Kids is an award winning website giving comprehensive lessons on biology topics.
Grade Suitability: 4,5,6,7,8
Resource: Biology Units. Useful in that information is presented in units to simplify presentation. Online Quizzes |
SEED is a small, well-rooted Public Benefits Organisation operating a national school-based program that grows Outdoor Classrooms in South Africa's poorer schools. Through workshops and teaching resources, SEED (Schools Environmental Education and Development), seeks to help educators create a more joyful and stimulating learning experience in a Permaculture garden. Their vision is to grow ecological intellengence and connect children to the ecosystems that support them. The methodology is based on a design system for sustainable living and land use that teaches environmental ethics, with earth care, people care and surplus share at its core.
Grade Suitability: 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
Resource: Downloadable PDF workbook in 10 parts, each part containing activities and worksheets which will lead to the informed creation of a food-bearing permaculture garden. |
OBIS is an outdoor program that offers young people fun and challenging opportunities to investigate ecological relationships in their local environment. The 97 OBIS activities, which take youngsters outdoors to investigate biology and to increase their environmental awareness can be used together or individually.
Grade Suitability: 5,6,7,8,9
Resource: Downloadable PDF activity files for 97 outdoor activities, together with detailed lesson plans and how to's. |
Grade Suitability: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7
Resource: Living things, classification, biology, human biology and animals, are all covered in this comprehensive online interactive "textbook" and there are more than 700 biology worksheets and activities in pdf format to print. |
Grade Suitability: 4,5,6,7
Resource: 36 chapters, from classifying animals to the human body. There is a free student's book and a separate teacher's manual. The author suggests that if you like the free life science, perhaps you'll purchase the other science books in the collection. |
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