Ready-to-Use Life Science Activities for Grades 5-12

A series designed to help educators teach scientific concepts and develop students' appreciation and understanding of the work done by generations of curious scientists. All books in the series emphasize the "process" of science and offer a variety of exciting hands-on experiences that relate science to students' everyday lives. Each volume provides 15 uniformly formatted teaching units covering 15 major topics in particular areas of science. Each ready-to-use unit contains:

-- A Teacher's Classwork Agenda for the Week and Content Notes for Lecture and Discussion

-- A reproducible Fact Sheet to introduce students to important content vocabulary and concepts in that unit

-- Four 40-to-50 minute Lesson Plans

-- Four reproducible Journal Sheets for student use in taking notes and recording lab activity data

-- A reproducible 15-minute Review Quiz The complete library includes 300 tested lessons and over 600 reproducible fact sheets, worksheets, homework assignments, and review quizzes organized into five volumes.