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Bio Bits – Teacher Guides

Bio Bits Teacher Guides and Lesson Plans

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Bio Bits is a series of eight learning modules clarifying and demonstrating the diversity and interdependence of plant and animal life. The sequences are aligned to benchmarks for life sciences for various grades ranging from Grades 3 to 12.

Below are teacher videos that correlate with the eight student videos to help the teacher explore the topics featured in the videos.

Also attached, eight assessment PDFs. One PDF for each of the eight videos.

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Assessment PDFs

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Bio Bits – Teacher Guides Videos

  • Bio Bits: Plant Life on the Sand Dunes Teacher Guide

    Teacher guide for Plant Life on the Sand Dunes: The ecosystem of sand dunes changes the further one goes inland

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  • Bio Bits: Plant Diversity Teacher Guide

    Teacher guide for Plant Diversity: How plant-life accumulates depending on other plant-life

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  • Bio Bits: Photosynthesis Teacher Guide

    Teacher Guide for Photosynthesis: How sunlight is converted into light energy, from the tops of forest canopies to the ground

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  • Bio Bits: Measuring Co2 Emissions Teachers Guide

    Teacher Guide Measuring Co2 Emissions: Studying how much CO2 is being exchanged between the forests and the atmosphere

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  • Bio Bits: Lookalikes, Extinct and Living Animals Teacher Guide

    Teacher guide for Lookalikes, Extinct and Living Animals: Examining the skeleton of the (extinct) giant ground sloths, which is related to the modern tree sloth. Examining the skeleton of mammoths, mastodons, and elephants.

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  • Bio Bits: Effects of Human Activity on Natural Change Teacher Guide

    Teacher guide for Effects of Human Activity on Natural Change: Increase of forest fires due to warmer temperatures, dryer conditions, Fire can regenerate a forest, turning an old forest into a young one.

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  • Bio Bits: Effects of Disturbance on Biodiversity Teacher Guide

    Teacher guide for Effects of Disturbance on Biodiversity: Effects of fire, climate change, logging. One forest had a fire 12 years ago, and isn’t particularly diverse. Another had a fire 60 years ago, and is becoming more biodiverse. Another forest is 300-400 years old, and is extremely diverse.

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  • Bio Bits: Animal structure Teacher Guide

    Teacher guide for Animal Structure: Examining the skulls of carnivores, herbivores, and omnivores to understand different bone structures.

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