Essential Science for Teachers: Life Science
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Bottle Biology

Bottle Basics

• Bottle Anatomy
• Cutting Bottles
• Joining Bottles
• Building Blocks
• Stringing Bottles
• Air Holes

TerrAqua Column

• Build the System
  • TerrAqua Column
  • Life Necklace
  • Petri Plates
• Activities
  • Get a Life!
  • Taking Inventory and Pondering Change
  • Is It Alive?
  • Now You See It
  • What Is It?
• Track Our Progress
  • Is It Alive?
  • What Is It?
  • Now You See It
• Discussion Board

Field Population System

• Build the System
• Activities
  • Assessing Variation
  • Selective Herbivory
  • Salt of the Earth
• Track Our Progress
  • Assessing Variation
  • Selective Herbivory
• Discussion Board

Brassica & Butterfly System

• Build the System
  • Growing System
  • Light House
  • Brassica Nursery
  • Brassica Barn
  • Bee Stick
  • Sugar Feeder
  • Ovipositron
• Activities
  • Brassica and Butterfly Life Cycles
  • To Bee or Not to Bee
  • The Salad Bar
  • How Sweet It Is
  • Mother Knows Best
• Track Our Progress
  • Brassica and Butterfly Life Cycles
  • The Salad Bar
  • Mother Knows Best
• Discussion Board

EcoColumn

• Build the System
• Activities
  • Taking Inventory and Pondering Change
  • Tree of Life
  • What's on the Menu?
  • Basically, I'm a Fungi
  • When it Rains
  • Decomposition Tea
• Track Our Progress
  • Basically, I'm a Fungi
  • Decomposition Tea
• Discussion Board

Session 1

Introduction

A Closer Look

• Cells
• Organic Molecules
• Extremophiles
• Teaching Tips
• Scientist at Work
• Curriculum Resources

Children's Ideas

• Children's Ideas Bibliography

Featured Classroom: Teacher and School

• Lesson and Curriculum
• Reflect on Your Teaching

Bottle Biology Spotlight

Session 2

Introduction

A Closer Look

• Classifying Living Things
• Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen
• Taxonomic Classification
• Teaching Tips
• Scientist at Work
• Curriculum Resources

Children's Ideas

• Children's Ideas Bibliography

Featured Classroom: Teacher and School

• Lesson and Curriculum
• Reflect on Your Teaching

Bottle Biology Spotlight

Session 3

Introduction

A Closer Look

• Body Cell Reproduction
• Sex Cell Production
• Cloning
• The Incredible Egg
• Teaching Tips
• Scientist at Work
• Curriculum Resources

Children's Ideas

• Children's Ideas Bibliography

Featured Classroom: Teacher and School

• Lesson and Curriculum
• Reflect on Your Teaching

Bottle Biology Spotlight

Session 4

Introduction

A Closer Look

• Alternation of Generations
• Transition From Water to Land
• Flowers and Pollination
• Fruit and Dispersal
• Seeds vs. Eggs
• Teaching Tips
• Scientist at Work
• Curriculum Resources

Children's Ideas

• Children's Ideas Bibliography

Featured Classroom: Teacher and School

• Lesson and Curriculum
• Reflect on Your Teaching

Bottle Biology Spotlight

Session 5

Introduction

A Closer Look

• Artificial Selection at Work
• Darwin and Natural Selection
• DNA, Chromosomes, and Genes
• New Variation in Populations
• Scientist at Work
• Curriculum Resources

Children's Ideas

• Children's Ideas Bibliography

Featured Classroom: Teacher and School

• Lesson and Curriculum
• Reflect on Your Teaching

Bottle Biology Spotlight

Session 6

Introduction

A Closer Look

• Classifying Reptiles
• Identifying Species
• Vertebrate Evolution
• Building a Tree of Life
• Scientist at Work
• Curriculum Resources

Children's Ideas

• Children's Ideas Bibliography

Featured Classroom: Teacher and School

• Lesson and Curriculum
• Reflect on Your Teaching

Bottle Biology Spotlight

Session 7

Introduction

A Closer Look

• Energy and Life
• Communities
• Photosynthesis
• Cell Respiration
• Energy Pyramids
• Scientist at Work
• Curriculum Resources

Children's Ideas

• Children's Ideas Bibliography

Featured Classroom: Teacher and School

• Lesson and Curriculum
• Reflect on Your Teaching

Bottle Biology Spotlight

Session 8

Introduction

A Closer Look

• What is an Ecosystem
• Matter and Life
• The SPONCH CaFe
• Building Bodies
• Material Cycles
• Scientist at Work
• Curriculum Resources

Children's Ideas

• Children's Ideas Bibliography

Featured Classroom: Teacher and School

• Lesson and Curriculum
• Reflect on Your Teaching

Bottle Biology Spotlight