Description

Want to incorporate more scientific literacy and critical thinking skills in your Biology lessons?
These skill extension worksheets are a perfect addition to your high school Biology curriculum. They include opportunities for analyzing and interpreting scientific data, critical thinking, and reading comprehension in the context of real-world science. These lessons can be used as homework pages, bell-ringers, sub plans or assignments for early finishers or honors students.

➤PLEASE NOTE: All of the extension pages in this bundle are also part of my Full Biology Curriculum and my Online Homeschool Biology Curriculum (2nd edition).

*This is an electronic download delivered to your email.  No physical items will be sent to you.

➤Three types of critical thinking lesson pages are included:

• Digging Deeper (44 pages): These are scientific literacy pages that aim to raise the level of difficulty in your Biology course. Most include short reading passages followed by discussion questions that review the content and encourage critical thinking.
• Data Analysis (25 pages): These are math extension pages. They either provide opportunities for math calculations relating to the content or contain graphs for students to interpret. They are excellent for preparing students for standardized tests and upper-level science classes.
• Other (6 pages): These pages include additional skills practice pages such as Greek and Latin roots, homeostasis, and graphing.

➤Extension Pages organized by content:

• Intro to Biology- Latin & Greek Pretest, Observations & Inferences, Variables, Data Tables Practice, Graphing Practice, Pseudoscience, How to write a CER, Water & Organisms, Nutrition Labels, Enzymes, Types of Microscopes
• Cells & Cellular Processes- Phospholipid Fluidity, Viruses, Endomembrane System, Van Helmont’s Experiment, Chlorophyll, C4 and CAM Photosynthesis, Fermented Foods, Comparing Cellular Energy, Fermentation Tubes, Cell Cycle, Metastatic Cancer, Cell Differentiation
• Genetics & DNA- Dihybrid Crosses, Dihybrid Corn, Nondisjunction, Gene Linkage, Eukaryotic v. Prokaryotic DNA Replication, Semi-conservative Replication, Antiparallel Strands, A Genetic “Library”, Epigenetics in Space, DNA Fingerprinting, DNA Phenotyping, Genetic Engineering and GMOs
• Evolution & Classification- A COVID Case Study, Coevolution, The Ozarks’ Collared Lizard Case Study, Tiger Corridors, Dichotomous Key Practice, Reading Cladograms, Stratigraphy & Fossils, Half-Life, Endosymbiosis
• Ecology & Sustainability- Make a Climatogram, Solar Insolation, Biomes, Weather, Local Geography & Climate, Food & Energy, Energy Pyramids, Age Structure Diagrams, Population Growth, Prey Adaptations, Ecological Niches, Effects of Supply Chain

Answer keys are included for all pages.

➤How can I use this in a virtual learning environment?

A Google Slides version of all the extension pages is included in this bundle. If your students have access to Google Slides, they can access the digital pages and type, draw, or insert images directly on the note pages. These are perfect for 1:1 classrooms.