Description

Looking for a biology unit on the domains and kingdoms of life that’s thorough and ready to use? This comprehensive lesson bundle has everything you need to introduce your students to viruses, bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals! All student pages come in both PRINT and DIGITAL versions for efficient use in class or through distance learning.

*PLEASE NOTE: This is an optional add-on unit in my Full Biology Curriculum. It is perfect for use after a Biology course EOC or state standardized test.

➤THIS UNIT INCLUDES:

-15 Teacher Planning Pages (standards document, pacing guides in traditional and block schedule formats, Greek/Latin prefixes and suffixes, differentiation ideas for student interest, ability, and learning environment)

-74-slide editable PowerPoint presentation (highly visual and fully animated)

-9 pages of editable Cornell notes (both fill-in-the-blank and editable versions included)

-3 pages of my popular Doodle Notes™ and a guide to using them in your classroom

-7 activities:

• Bacterial Disease Poster & Gallery Walk
• Protista Microscope Lab
• Flower Dissection Lab
• Plant Anatomy Stations
• Invertebrate Animal Cladogram
• Earthworm Dissection Lab (with video alternative)
• Frog Dissection Lab (with video alternative)

-5 Extension Pages focusing on higher-order thinking skills:

• Digging Deeper: Vaccines
• Data Analysis: Bacterial Growth
• Data Analysis: Anaerobic Bacteria
• Digging Deeper: Red Tides
• Digging Deeper: Lichens

–30 editable task cards for a quick and easy unit review

–Editable online quiz through Google Forms

–Editable unit test with multiple-choice and short-answer questions (in both honors and regular versions)

–Supplementary Resource Ideas: links and videos for additional explanation or exploration

–Answer keys for all student pages

➤What topics are included in this unit?

• Viruses- structure, comparison to living organisms
• Bacteria- structure, reproduction, antibiotic treatments, growth in different conditions
• Protists- types of protists, movement of protozoans, variety of protist characteristics, effects of protists on environment and human health
• Fungi- structure, diversity, reproduction, nutrition, comparison to plants
• Plants- diversity, vascular v. nonvascular plants, structures, flowers and seeds
• Animals- invertebrates v. vertebrates, characteristics of each invertebrate group (sponges, cnidarians, arthropods, roundworms, flatworms, annelids, echinoderms, mollusks), characteristics of each vertebrate group (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals), chordates

The unit is aligned to NGSS and many state standards. If you’d like to know whether your state standards are covered, you can send me an email at [email protected].

NGSS addressed in this unit: HS-LS1-2, HS-LS1-3, HS-LS2-1, HS-LS2-7, HS-LS4-5. Additional details on standards are included in the teacher planning pages of this course.

➤What textbook can I use with this unit?

This unit is comprehensive enough to stand on its own without a textbook. If you prefer to use one, this unit follows the topics in the Miller & Levine Biology textbook, which many teachers use. For other textbook suggestions, simply send me an email at [email protected].

➤Can I edit these resources to fit my needs?

Some of the files in this unit are editable. The text on the PowerPoints, Cornell Notes, and task cards is all editable so you can adjust the level of content and wording. The pacing guide, Google Forms quizzes, and printable unit tests are all fully editable. Labs, activities, extension pages, and any images included in this unit are in non-editable PDF formats to protect my intellectual property rights and those of the illustrators whose images I’ve purchased for use in this resource.