Change Over Time/Fossils
Learn how to recognize that fossil evidence is consistent with the scientific theory of evolution, that living things evolved from earlier species by natural selection, with this interactive tutorial.
Hank gets real with us in a discussion of evolution - it's a thing, not a debate. Gene distribution changes over time, across successive generations, to give rise to diversity at every level of biological organization.
Hank guides us through the process of natural selection, the key mechanism of evolution.
Join Bill Nye to learn more about Fossils.
Join Bill Nye to learn more about Evolution.
Here is a resource to help us create a 3-Flap Foldable, check it out!
Here is a resource to help us create a 4-Flap Foldable, check it out!
Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals. The source of lifes endless forms was a profound mystery until Charles Darwins revolutionary idea of natural selection. NOVA reveals answers to the riddles that Darwin couldnt explain.
Learn how the environment on Earth is constantly changing and that populations of organisms adapt to this change by evolving via natural selection. In this interactive tutorial, you'll discover how organisms do and do not avoid extinction.
Play this Lab and you’ll be on your way to becoming an expert in phylogenetics––a fancy name for the study of the evolutionary relationships among species.
This astonishing video from Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life is the story of life on Earth over millions of years. Hosted by David Attenborough.
MATTER AND ENERGY IN LIVING SYSTEMS
Join the Study Jams team and learn more about Photosynthesis.
Join the Study Jams team and learn more about the Carbon Cycle.
Test your SKILLS...This interactive site reviews the concepts of photosynthesis.
Having Trouble? Check you this tutorial about Photosynthesis.
This is a NOVA video about Photosynthesis.
This is a NOVA video about Cellular Respiration
This is a review about how energy flows through an ecosystem.
This link has an interactive carbon cycle to help you better understand how carbon cycles through the environment.
Crash Course video reviewing the Phosphorus and Nitrogen Cycles.
Crash Course video reviewing the Carbon Cycle.
Learn more about the carbon cycle and the influences of people in this video clip from the US EPA.
Food Chain and Web discussion link.
Bill Nye - Plants
Bill Nye - Respiration
Bill Nye - Food Webs
Here you can learn more about how energy moves through an environment.
Here is a presentation that you can take some notes from and review the Cycles Within Ecosystems of the Earth. Check it out!
Ted Ed presentor - Joshua M. Sneideman examines the many ways in which energy cycles through our planet, from the sun to our food chain to electricity and beyond.
Learn more about CYCLES in Ecosystems with the Amoeba Sisters, check out this video.
Learn more about CLASSIFICAION and EVOLUTION in Ecosystems with the Amoeba Sisters, check out this playlist.
Learn more about Photosynthesis with this Amoeba Sisters Video.
Learn more about Cellular Respsiration with this Amoeba Sisters Video.
Interdependence of Organisms
This is a quick tutorial from the k12 site, describing a close and long-term relationship between different species to promote the survival of one of both creatures. SYMBIOSIS
Butterflies and Ants, Turkeys and Squirrels, watch these animals be friends, allies and even cleaners of other animals.
Join Hank to investigate the interactions between species . Although interspecies interactions are mostly competitive, competition is pretty dangerous, so a lot of interactions are actually about side-stepping direct competition and instead finding ways to divvy up resources to let species get along. Feel the love?
Join Hank brings us to the next level of ecological study with ecosystem ecology, which looks at how energy, nutrients, and materials are getting shuffled around within an ecosystem (a collection of living and nonliving things interacting in a specific place), and which basically comes down to who is eating who.
Join Hank as he discusses Population ecology is the study of groups within a species that interact mostly with each other, and it examines how they live together in one geographic area to understand why these populations are different in one time and place than they are in another.
Symbiosis describes a relationship between two organisms in an environment. There are three main types of relationships: mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism.
Learn the difference between biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred.
Invasive species are a constant threat to delicate ecosystems such as the Florida Everglades. For over 200 years humans have had a great impact on these wetlands through agricultural development. More recently, the introduction of invasive species into the Everglades has proven to be detrimental to the native flora and fauna.
Join Bill to learn more about how energy moves through ecosystems.
Join Bill to learn more about how the number of species change in ecosystems, POPULATIONS.
Explore several ecological relationships with The Amoeba Sisters! Ecological relationships discussed include predation, competition, and symbiotic relationships (parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism)
Practice your skills in this interactive game - can you complete each food chain?
Endangered Species Project Links
Biodiversity and Genetics
Here is a link to Bill Nye The Science Guy - Genes video.
Here is a link to Bill Nye The Science Guy - Evolution video.
Here is a link to Bill Nye The Science Guy - Invertebrates video.
Here is a link to Bill Nye The Science Guy - Life Cycles video.
Here is a link to Bill Nye The Science Guy - Biodiversity video.
Here is a link to Bill Nye Great Discoveries - Genetics video.
Here is a lint to Bill Nye - The Eyes Of Nye GMO
Here is a link to the Crash Course Life Science video playlist, lots of good review matierial here.
Join Hank from Crash Course to learn more about traits that are handed down from parents to offspring, heredity.
This is a quick Ted ED review of Mendel learnings from his pea plants.
Here is a link to the "Alien" Taxonomy Key (Dichotomous Key).
Join Hank from Crash Course to learn more about classification of living things, Taxonomy.
This is a link to the BBC Eyewitness Series - Life video, below you can find the WS that goes along with it.
Here is a link to the Genetics Vocabulary FOLDABLE presentation.
Click here for an AMBEBA Sisters Review of Genetics and Heredity.
Learn to predict the probability of offspring inheriting different traits and combinations of genes using Punnett squares. In this interactive tutorial you also review genotypes and phenotypes.
Compare and contrast mitosis and meiosis in this interactive tutorial. You'll also relate them to the processes of sexual and asexual reproduction and their consequences for genetic variation.
NOVA video looking into the advancements in Genetics. We are on the brink of a new era of personalized, gene-based medicine. Are we ready for it?
How exactly does meiosis mix and halve chromosomes? Find out through this feature, which provides a step-by-step, side-by-side comparison of meiosis and mitosis.
Use this presentation to help you create your Mitosis Flip Book!
Review this Amoeba Sister video to learn more about MITOSIS.
Review this Amoeba Sister video to learn more about MITOSIS.
Review this Amoeba Sister video to learn more about MITOSIS.
This game will put your pigeon-breeding skills to the test.
You will have to start a free account and then take the tutorials to learn to play. Check out some of the other game topics they have too.
Baby Face Genetics - Reference Sheet
Here is a digital copy of the reference sheet we used in class to identify our baby face traits.
Bill Nye - Evolution
This is a digital copy of the worksheet we completed while watching Bill Nye's Evolution video.
Atoms to Organisms
This TedED video explains how unicellular organisms, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, and our biosphere build off of each other and work together.
The Amoeba Sisters tour through the biological levels of organization: cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere!
Paul Andersen explains how biology is ordered in the hierarchy of life.
Cells and Homeostasis
In this virtual lab you will investigate the functions and names of animal and plant cell parts.
Hank tells us about the city of Eukaryopolis - the animal cell that is responsible for all the cool things that happen in our bodies.
This powepoint helps students better understand Cell Theory and that all living organisms are made of cells.
This powerpoint helps students better understand Cell Theory and is good for review.
This Powerpoint will help students understand how to properly use a microscope.
In this virtual lab, students will investigate the functions and names of animal and plant cell parts.
Hank describes why plants are so freaking amazing - discussing their evolution, and how their cells are both similar to & different from animal cells.
Animal cells have many functions that support the life of the animal. Animal cells also have lots of different parts, including the cell body, cytoplasm, mitochondria, nucleus, vacuole, and cell membrane, check them out on these Study Jam slides.
The cells of plants include several parts, such as the cell body, cytoplasm, mitochondria, nucleus, vacuole, cell membrane, cell wall, and chloroplasts. Only plant cells have plant walls and chloroplasts, check them out on these Study Jam slides.
Use the following interactive animation of plant and animal cells to learn about their respective organelles.
Check it out!
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Explore the types of passive and active cell transport with the Amoeba Sisters!
By navigating through this presentation, you will gain a better understanding of the different types of transport across a membrane barrier, how protiens are involved in transport, and how these protiens are regulated in order to modulate transport.
Paul Andersen takes you on a tour of the cell. He starts by explaining the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. He also explains why cells are small but not infinitely small. He also explains how the organelles work together in a similar fashion
Human Body Systems
Functions, Interactions, and Homeostatsis
CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING THINGS
BUG Week
Here is a link to the Bill Nye Video we watched in class about INSECTS.
This is a digital copy of the WS with crossword on one side and BNSG on the other.
This is a digital copy of the Adopt a Bug WS.
This is a digital copy of the Bug Fortune Teller WS that helps you learn more about insect metamorphosis.
This is an extra - find the insect related words.
Tutorials For This Unit
Classifying Living Things
Infectious Agents
Family Trees and Pedigrees