Variations In Life Science

12 Ten Minute Programs
Grade(s): Middle School
Curriculum: Science

This is a series of 12 titles designed to be individually used to cover certain areas the teacher feels the students need to help them better understand and comprehend the topics. They cover four basic questions:

  1. What do we know?
  2. How do we know it?
  3. How do we use that knowledge?
  4. What does that knowledge mean to our everyday life?

The units are fully flexible in design, but the teacher is encouraged to use them in their entirety, which means each unit would take 4 to 5 classroom periods because of the related activities that accompany each Title.

Program Titles:

  1. An Eye Into Life (cells and microscopes).
  2. The Ultimate surveyors (bacteria).
  3. Invisible allies (beneficial bacteria).
  4. Something in common (classification).
  5. Without which nothing (photosynthesis).
  6. The price of survival (Tropical foods).
  7. What's in a face? (Skin).
  8. Life is motion (the muscular-skeletal system).
  9. A matter of the heart (circulation).
  10. Angies' ears
  11. Like a key hormone
  12. The way we are(genetics)