Biology Module 1: The Study of Life

Teaching Kindergarten through Highschool Biology all together using the Apologia Exploring Creation with Biology as a spine.

Lesson:

Introductory Comments:
A. Your science notebook
B. Starting an insect collection

1. What is science?
2. Scientist like to put things into groups. Living - Non-Living
Sewer Lice opener found on Great Links on Characteristics of Life listed below.
3. Biology, the study of living things.

4. Characteristic of living things
A. Discovery video on Characteristics of Life
B. Is Yeast Alive worksheet
C. Look at yeast under the microscope
D. Other Characteristics of Life worksheets if needed.

5. The microscope
A. Leeuwenhoek video
B. Microscope parts worksheets

6. How scientists study living things -the scientific method
A.video on the scientific method
B. Video on Pasteur and spontaneous generation
C. Young Students watch the Sesame Street Video

7. Organizing living things into groups-classification
A. How something is classified and gets it's scientific name.
B. Five Kingdoms site
C. Classify something interactive site from NOVA
D. 3 Domains- discussion of it's connection to evolution
E. Find a living thing and classify it

Resources

Science Notebooks

Viewing yeast under a microscope

Five Kingdoms

Classifying Life interactive activity

Middle School scientific method worksheet

Microscope Parts Worksheet

Middle School Characteristics of Life Worksheet

Early Elementary Worksheet on living and non-living things

Great Links on Characteristics of Life

Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

Vocabulary Flashcards