8. LIFE SCIENCE
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Magic School Bus Gets Planted- Netflix
Photosynthesis
Infographic on photosynthesis
Photosynthesis Article
Photosynthesis Images
Photosynthesis Video
Advanced article- very good- with diagrams
Article on photosynthesis for kids (thylakoid, cholorphyll and cholorplast)
What is thylakoid? wiki
Structure of plants- study video stops after while
Photosynthesis light reactions video advanced
Photosyntheis for kids article
Pictures of photosynthesis
CARBON DIOXIDE/OXYGEN CYCLE
Carbon Dioxide/Oxygen Cycle video
Carbon Cycle- circle of life, lion king, carbon is everywhere
Diagram
Carbon Dioxide Oxygen Game- fun!
Video cartoon
CO2 emissions threaten oceans article
BIOMES
Create a biome game
TUNDRA
Tundra video
Animals that live in the Tundra
Plants that live in the Tundra
Arctic Tundra video
Beluga Whale Blows Bubbles video
Where is Tundra
TAIGA/BOREAL
Taiga/Boreal Forest video
Plants and Animals Taiga
TEMPERATE/DECIDUOUS
Plants and Animals Temperate Forest
Wildlife in Deciduous forests
Temperate/Deciduous Forest Planet Earth 36:07- changing leaf color (on Netflix, show with whole class)
How does Time Lapse work 59:57
Logging- a hopeful solution video
DESERT
Desert- 4 types
Most Beautiful Deserts
Deserts of the World
Animals in deserts
Planet Earth Deserts video
How to animals and plants survive? adapatations of desert organisms
RAINFOREST
Animals in rainforests
Rainforest Need to Know Facts Video- Buzz Feed
Rainforest Facts
Rainforest Info
Layers of Rainforest
Emergent Layer Pics- birds, hummingbirds, bats, eagles, butterflies
Canopy Layer Pics- umbrella layer, air plants, bromeliads, orchids, birds, monkeys, parrots, sloth
Understory Layer Pics- vines, shrubs, broad leaf plants, jaguar, sloth, leopards, gorrillas, monkeys
Forest Floor Pics- snakes, beetles, ant eaters, lizards, frogs, fungi, jaguar, sloth, leopards, gorrillas
Virtual Tour of Rainforest- VERY GOOD!
Cold Rainforest in Chile
Planet Earth- Jungles video
Tropical Rainforest animals
SAVANNAH/GRASSLAND/PRAIRIE
Savannah Animals
Great Plains- planet earth
Savannah Facts
Animal Adaptations of African Savannah
TODAY IN CLASS: Research at least one organism from each biome and write about it's adaptations. How does it survive the challenges in that biome? Does it hibernate? Is it nocturnal? Does it have big ears to hear well and to cool itself down? Does it shed its coat in the summer? Does it have camouflage? Use the links below:
Tundra Adaptations
Taiga/Boreal Adapations
Taiga/Boreal Adaptations2
Temperate/Deciduous Adaptations
Temperate/Deciduous Adaptations2
Desert Adaptations
Savannah Adaptations
Rainforest Adaptations
Penguin Adaptations
Ecosystems Flocabulary
Water Cycle Flocabulary
Food Chains Flocabulary
Parts of a Plant Flocabulary
Pollination Flocabulary
Adaptations Flocabulary
6 Kingdoms (advanced Life Science) Flocabulary
FOOD CHAINS/FOOD WEBS
Ocean Food Web
Phytoplankton wiki
Plankton microscope videos
Zooplankton
Secret life of plankton video
Blue Whale- Baleen (filter feeding)
Leopard Seals
Overfishing
Blue Fin Tuna Overfishing
Tropical Rainforest Food Web
Vampire Bat
Python
In the Belly of a Python
Macaw
Fruit Bat
What are Decomposers? What is their role in the food chain?
What is bacteria?
What are fungi?
What are they? decomposers
List of Decomposers
Pictures of decomposers
List of Herbivores
List of Carnivores
List of Omnivores
Brain Pop- Food Fight GAME
Food Web Game
Food Chain Game
Lots of Links to Food Web/Food Chain/Decomposer Games
TRAITS / DNA
Inherited Traits from your parents: 23 chromosomes from your mom, 23 chromosomes from your dad- which gives you 23 chromosome PAIRS. Chromosomes have DNA inside of them. DNA is a record of instructions telling the cell what its job is going to be. DNA is like blueprints for the cell, or computer code telling a PC what to do. It is written in a special alphabet that is only four letters long! Unlike a book or computer screen, DNA isn't flat and boring - it is a beautiful curved ladder. We call this shape a double helix. The letters of the DNA alphabet (called bases) make up the rungs, special sugars and other atoms make up the handrail.
The rungs are very special. Each one has a name (Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine), but we call them by their initials: A, T, C and G They don't like to be by themselves so they always pair up with a friend. But they are very choosy about their friends:
ATG CGT GGT CAG TCG ATA TAT GGC CCC
These words make up sentences that the cell understands. These sentences are called genes.
[ATG CGT GGT CAG] [TCG ATA TAT GGC CCC]
Each sentence tells a cell to make a special molecule called a protein. These proteins control everything in a cell. In this way, DNA is like the boss of a company, and not the brain of the cell. It issues instructions, but doesn't do very much of the actual work :) These proteins help each cell do its job. Each gene makes one protein, and only one protein.
What is DNA for kids article
Inherited Traits-23 and Me article and video
What is DNA?
What is a gene?
What is a gene kids health for teens
Genes vs DNA vs Chromosomes
What is a chromosome?
DNA infographics
Cool Hybrid Animals
Amazing Hybdrid Animals
Chromosome Count
Video, Why Can't Mules Have Babies? MinuteEarth
Learned vs Inherited- what if they mated computer game
For Inherited Traits:
Flying Squirrel image
Saguaro Cactus image
For Instincts (a type of inherited trait)
Crying Baby image
Growling dog image
For Learned Behaviors:
Dog Riding a Bike image
Kid shooting a basketball image
Polar Bears in dumpster image
PLANT ADAPTATIONS
Pitcher Plant Image and Adaptations
Rafflesia Flower
Welwitchia
Bristlecone Pine Tree :40-2:00
Dragons Blood Tree Image
Phototropism Experiment
Phototropism Time Lapse
What is phototropism
ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS
Adaptations song
Camouflage- blending into environment
Mimicry- looking like another organism or thing
Examples of Mimicry
Inherited and learned traits? Nature: Ocean Wonders (Encountering Sea Monsters) 19:00-30:00
Ted Talks: Camel Adaptations
Animal Adaptations Interactive Sites
Bird Beaks
Bird Feet
Bird Adaptations
Bird Beaks Video
Galapagos Finch
Skull Adaptations PDF
Skull Adaptations- teeth
skull adaptations- eye placement
Image of foot, spread out to spread camel's weight across the ground
It's just fat inside of a camel hump, image
Bird beaks are adapted to different eating styles, image
"Why Woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches," article
Bird beak adaptations of finches, mini infographic
Video, Why Only Some Monkeys Have Tails, MinuteEarth
Video, Why did T-Rex have such tiny arms? MinuteEarth (avoid 0:16-0:22)"Nature: Ocean Wonders, Encountering Sea Monsters, full video"
Video, Why don't scavengers get sick?, MinuteEarth
PLANT LIFE CYCLES
Time Lapse Videos of Plant Life Cycles:
Corn
Radishes
Dragon Fruit, from flower bud to fruit growth with seeds inside after pollination
Rose Bush
Acorn Tree
Pollination of Pear Tree (flower to seed/fruit)
How Pine Cones Open in Response to Moisture to release seeds
Brain Pop: Plant Life Cycles
Brain Pop: Pollination
Fertilization- the male part fertilizes the female part (boy part drops pollen on girl part)
Pollination- the girl part now has the pollen to make and drop seeds
Germination- the roots come out of the seeds and start to form a plant
Male and Female parts of Plants:
Flower Parts
Flower Life Cycle
Pine Tree Parts
Pine Tree Life Cycle
Pine Tree Pollination
Fern Parts
Fern Life Cycle
SEED DISPERSAL
Animal, wind, water
Different types- gravity, wind, water, animals, force
INSECT LIFE CYCLES
COMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS: FOUR STAGES: Examples: Butterfly, Mosquito, Lady Bug, Beatles, Flies, Ants, Mealworms, Bees
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle
Butterfly School
Interesting info about Butterfly Wings
Preparing for Pupa Stage
Silk Makers
Do they die and then come to life? new theory on butterflies
3D x ray images of butterfly transformation
Lady Bug Time Lapse
Lady Bug Life Cycle- Larva to Pupa
Bee Time Lapse Life Cycle
Bee Life Cycle Images
Mosquito Video
Mosquito Life Cycle Animation
Mosquito Larvae
Mealworm Life Cycle Picture
Mealworm to beetle
Ant Life Cycle Images
Fly Life Cycle Images
INCOMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS: THREE STAGES: Examples: Cicada, Roaches, Grasshoppers, Dragonfly
Dragonfly Smithsonian video- but he calls it a larvae- it's a nymph
Dragonfly image
Dragonfly life cycle video- longer, detailed
Cicada story
Cicada Images- life cycle
Roaches
Grasshoppers
Complete vs Incomplete Metamorphosis video
COMPARING LIFE CYCLES
ANIMAL LIFE CYCLES
Non Bugs that go through Metamorphosis: Amphibians: Frogs, Newts, Salamanders, Sirens; Crustaceans:Prawns, Brine Shrimp; Mollusks: Crabs, Barnacles, Gastropods, Sea Squirts; only a few Fish: Flounder, Eels, Salmon
Frog Life Cycle
Life Cycle Frog
VERY advanced info on amphibian changes during metamorphosis
BrainPop: Frog LIfe Cycle
BrainPop: Metamorphosis
BrainPop: What are amphibians?
IN CLASS:
Remeber that all animals have different life cycles, depending on what kind of animal they are.
Amphibians, some mollusks, crustaceans and 3 fish go through metamorphosis. The rest of the animals have regular life cycles, and do not go through metamorphosis. The only type of animal that give birth to it's live young are mammals.
Amphibians- lay eggs, go through metamorphosis
Fish- lay eggs
Reptiles- most lay eggs
Birds- lay eggs
Mammals- live birth
Animal Life Cycles Article
Life Cycle Games
Life Cycle Links
Article on Amphibians
What's the difference between frog and toad?
Random Vocab words- some words you were asking about- what is a mollusk? other words too
Different Types of Animals_
Animal Classes
A to Z Animals List and Facts
Animal Species and Profile
Crustaceans Metamorphosis
Shrimp Metamorphosis
All about metamorphosis- insects, animals, aquatic insects, crustaceans, amphibians
Fish? Only a few do go through metamorphosis
ALMOST ALL ANIMALS DO NOT GO THROUGH METAMORPHOSIS. Let's check out their life cycles
Marsupials:
Marsupial Life Cycles, koalas in Australia
Wombat Life Cycle
Mammals:
Dolphin Life Cycle
Giraffe Life Cycle and baby giraffe born at the zoo!
Elephant
Polar Bear
Cheetah
Chimpanzee
Beluga Whale Life Cycle
Birds:
Chicken life cycle
Fish:
All about Seahorses from Mrs. Cotten, when she was in Australia
Most beautiful fish
clown fish life cycle
Favorites:
World favorite animals
cutest baby animals in the world
baby animal pics!
CAREERS IN THE SCIENCES
Life Science Jobs, and other sciences
Fastest Growing Green Jobs
List of Jobs in General-.gov
Physician Job Profile
BioMedical Engineer Job Profile
Pharmacist Job Profile
Software Architect Job Profile
Ecologist Job Profile
Oceanographer Job Profile
Market Research Analyst Job Profile
Clincal Research Associate Job Profile
Optomistrist Job Profile
A-Z Job Profiles
CareerGirls.com
Forbes: Highest Paying, in demand jobs Article- Physican, Tech jobs, Software Enginneer, Health Care Jobs, Pharmacists
Glassdoor- Highest Paying in demand jobs LIST
PHOTOSYNTHESIS
Magic School Bus Gets Planted- Netflix
Photosynthesis
Infographic on photosynthesis
Photosynthesis Article
Photosynthesis Images
Photosynthesis Video
Advanced article- very good- with diagrams
Article on photosynthesis for kids (thylakoid, cholorphyll and cholorplast)
What is thylakoid? wiki
Structure of plants- study video stops after while
Photosynthesis light reactions video advanced
Photosyntheis for kids article
Pictures of photosynthesis
CARBON DIOXIDE/OXYGEN CYCLE
Carbon Dioxide/Oxygen Cycle video
Carbon Cycle- circle of life, lion king, carbon is everywhere
Diagram
Carbon Dioxide Oxygen Game- fun!
Video cartoon
CO2 emissions threaten oceans article
BIOMES
Create a biome game
TUNDRA
Tundra video
Animals that live in the Tundra
Plants that live in the Tundra
Arctic Tundra video
Beluga Whale Blows Bubbles video
Where is Tundra
TAIGA/BOREAL
Taiga/Boreal Forest video
Plants and Animals Taiga
TEMPERATE/DECIDUOUS
Plants and Animals Temperate Forest
Wildlife in Deciduous forests
Temperate/Deciduous Forest Planet Earth 36:07- changing leaf color (on Netflix, show with whole class)
How does Time Lapse work 59:57
Logging- a hopeful solution video
DESERT
Desert- 4 types
Most Beautiful Deserts
Deserts of the World
Animals in deserts
Planet Earth Deserts video
How to animals and plants survive? adapatations of desert organisms
RAINFOREST
Animals in rainforests
Rainforest Need to Know Facts Video- Buzz Feed
Rainforest Facts
Rainforest Info
Layers of Rainforest
Emergent Layer Pics- birds, hummingbirds, bats, eagles, butterflies
Canopy Layer Pics- umbrella layer, air plants, bromeliads, orchids, birds, monkeys, parrots, sloth
Understory Layer Pics- vines, shrubs, broad leaf plants, jaguar, sloth, leopards, gorrillas, monkeys
Forest Floor Pics- snakes, beetles, ant eaters, lizards, frogs, fungi, jaguar, sloth, leopards, gorrillas
Virtual Tour of Rainforest- VERY GOOD!
Cold Rainforest in Chile
Planet Earth- Jungles video
Tropical Rainforest animals
SAVANNAH/GRASSLAND/PRAIRIE
Savannah Animals
Great Plains- planet earth
Savannah Facts
Animal Adaptations of African Savannah
TODAY IN CLASS: Research at least one organism from each biome and write about it's adaptations. How does it survive the challenges in that biome? Does it hibernate? Is it nocturnal? Does it have big ears to hear well and to cool itself down? Does it shed its coat in the summer? Does it have camouflage? Use the links below:
Tundra Adaptations
Taiga/Boreal Adapations
Taiga/Boreal Adaptations2
Temperate/Deciduous Adaptations
Temperate/Deciduous Adaptations2
Desert Adaptations
Savannah Adaptations
Rainforest Adaptations
Penguin Adaptations
Ecosystems Flocabulary
Water Cycle Flocabulary
Food Chains Flocabulary
Parts of a Plant Flocabulary
Pollination Flocabulary
Adaptations Flocabulary
6 Kingdoms (advanced Life Science) Flocabulary
FOOD CHAINS/FOOD WEBS
Ocean Food Web
Phytoplankton wiki
Plankton microscope videos
Zooplankton
Secret life of plankton video
Blue Whale- Baleen (filter feeding)
Leopard Seals
Overfishing
Blue Fin Tuna Overfishing
Tropical Rainforest Food Web
Vampire Bat
Python
In the Belly of a Python
Macaw
Fruit Bat
What are Decomposers? What is their role in the food chain?
What is bacteria?
What are fungi?
What are they? decomposers
List of Decomposers
Pictures of decomposers
List of Herbivores
List of Carnivores
List of Omnivores
Brain Pop- Food Fight GAME
Food Web Game
Food Chain Game
Lots of Links to Food Web/Food Chain/Decomposer Games
TRAITS / DNA
Inherited Traits from your parents: 23 chromosomes from your mom, 23 chromosomes from your dad- which gives you 23 chromosome PAIRS. Chromosomes have DNA inside of them. DNA is a record of instructions telling the cell what its job is going to be. DNA is like blueprints for the cell, or computer code telling a PC what to do. It is written in a special alphabet that is only four letters long! Unlike a book or computer screen, DNA isn't flat and boring - it is a beautiful curved ladder. We call this shape a double helix. The letters of the DNA alphabet (called bases) make up the rungs, special sugars and other atoms make up the handrail.
The rungs are very special. Each one has a name (Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine), but we call them by their initials: A, T, C and G They don't like to be by themselves so they always pair up with a friend. But they are very choosy about their friends:
- A and T are best friends and always hang out together
- G and C are best friends and always hang out together
ATG CGT GGT CAG TCG ATA TAT GGC CCC
These words make up sentences that the cell understands. These sentences are called genes.
[ATG CGT GGT CAG] [TCG ATA TAT GGC CCC]
Each sentence tells a cell to make a special molecule called a protein. These proteins control everything in a cell. In this way, DNA is like the boss of a company, and not the brain of the cell. It issues instructions, but doesn't do very much of the actual work :) These proteins help each cell do its job. Each gene makes one protein, and only one protein.
What is DNA for kids article
Inherited Traits-23 and Me article and video
What is DNA?
What is a gene?
What is a gene kids health for teens
Genes vs DNA vs Chromosomes
What is a chromosome?
DNA infographics
Cool Hybrid Animals
Amazing Hybdrid Animals
Chromosome Count
Video, Why Can't Mules Have Babies? MinuteEarth
Learned vs Inherited- what if they mated computer game
For Inherited Traits:
Flying Squirrel image
Saguaro Cactus image
For Instincts (a type of inherited trait)
Crying Baby image
Growling dog image
For Learned Behaviors:
Dog Riding a Bike image
Kid shooting a basketball image
Polar Bears in dumpster image
PLANT ADAPTATIONS
Pitcher Plant Image and Adaptations
Rafflesia Flower
Welwitchia
Bristlecone Pine Tree :40-2:00
Dragons Blood Tree Image
Phototropism Experiment
Phototropism Time Lapse
What is phototropism
ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS
Adaptations song
Camouflage- blending into environment
Mimicry- looking like another organism or thing
Examples of Mimicry
Inherited and learned traits? Nature: Ocean Wonders (Encountering Sea Monsters) 19:00-30:00
Ted Talks: Camel Adaptations
Animal Adaptations Interactive Sites
Bird Beaks
Bird Feet
Bird Adaptations
Bird Beaks Video
Galapagos Finch
Skull Adaptations PDF
Skull Adaptations- teeth
skull adaptations- eye placement
Image of foot, spread out to spread camel's weight across the ground
It's just fat inside of a camel hump, image
Bird beaks are adapted to different eating styles, image
"Why Woodpeckers can hammer without getting headaches," article
Bird beak adaptations of finches, mini infographic
Video, Why Only Some Monkeys Have Tails, MinuteEarth
Video, Why did T-Rex have such tiny arms? MinuteEarth (avoid 0:16-0:22)"Nature: Ocean Wonders, Encountering Sea Monsters, full video"
Video, Why don't scavengers get sick?, MinuteEarth
PLANT LIFE CYCLES
Time Lapse Videos of Plant Life Cycles:
Corn
Radishes
Dragon Fruit, from flower bud to fruit growth with seeds inside after pollination
Rose Bush
Acorn Tree
Pollination of Pear Tree (flower to seed/fruit)
How Pine Cones Open in Response to Moisture to release seeds
Brain Pop: Plant Life Cycles
Brain Pop: Pollination
Fertilization- the male part fertilizes the female part (boy part drops pollen on girl part)
Pollination- the girl part now has the pollen to make and drop seeds
Germination- the roots come out of the seeds and start to form a plant
Male and Female parts of Plants:
Flower Parts
Flower Life Cycle
Pine Tree Parts
Pine Tree Life Cycle
Pine Tree Pollination
Fern Parts
Fern Life Cycle
SEED DISPERSAL
Animal, wind, water
Different types- gravity, wind, water, animals, force
INSECT LIFE CYCLES
COMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS: FOUR STAGES: Examples: Butterfly, Mosquito, Lady Bug, Beatles, Flies, Ants, Mealworms, Bees
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle
Butterfly School
Interesting info about Butterfly Wings
Preparing for Pupa Stage
Silk Makers
Do they die and then come to life? new theory on butterflies
3D x ray images of butterfly transformation
Lady Bug Time Lapse
Lady Bug Life Cycle- Larva to Pupa
Bee Time Lapse Life Cycle
Bee Life Cycle Images
Mosquito Video
Mosquito Life Cycle Animation
Mosquito Larvae
Mealworm Life Cycle Picture
Mealworm to beetle
Ant Life Cycle Images
Fly Life Cycle Images
INCOMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS: THREE STAGES: Examples: Cicada, Roaches, Grasshoppers, Dragonfly
Dragonfly Smithsonian video- but he calls it a larvae- it's a nymph
Dragonfly image
Dragonfly life cycle video- longer, detailed
Cicada story
Cicada Images- life cycle
Roaches
Grasshoppers
Complete vs Incomplete Metamorphosis video
COMPARING LIFE CYCLES
ANIMAL LIFE CYCLES
Non Bugs that go through Metamorphosis: Amphibians: Frogs, Newts, Salamanders, Sirens; Crustaceans:Prawns, Brine Shrimp; Mollusks: Crabs, Barnacles, Gastropods, Sea Squirts; only a few Fish: Flounder, Eels, Salmon
Frog Life Cycle
Life Cycle Frog
VERY advanced info on amphibian changes during metamorphosis
BrainPop: Frog LIfe Cycle
BrainPop: Metamorphosis
BrainPop: What are amphibians?
IN CLASS:
Remeber that all animals have different life cycles, depending on what kind of animal they are.
Amphibians, some mollusks, crustaceans and 3 fish go through metamorphosis. The rest of the animals have regular life cycles, and do not go through metamorphosis. The only type of animal that give birth to it's live young are mammals.
Amphibians- lay eggs, go through metamorphosis
Fish- lay eggs
Reptiles- most lay eggs
Birds- lay eggs
Mammals- live birth
Animal Life Cycles Article
Life Cycle Games
Life Cycle Links
Article on Amphibians
What's the difference between frog and toad?
Random Vocab words- some words you were asking about- what is a mollusk? other words too
Different Types of Animals_
Animal Classes
A to Z Animals List and Facts
Animal Species and Profile
Crustaceans Metamorphosis
Shrimp Metamorphosis
All about metamorphosis- insects, animals, aquatic insects, crustaceans, amphibians
Fish? Only a few do go through metamorphosis
ALMOST ALL ANIMALS DO NOT GO THROUGH METAMORPHOSIS. Let's check out their life cycles
Marsupials:
Marsupial Life Cycles, koalas in Australia
Wombat Life Cycle
Mammals:
Dolphin Life Cycle
Giraffe Life Cycle and baby giraffe born at the zoo!
Elephant
Polar Bear
Cheetah
Chimpanzee
Beluga Whale Life Cycle
Birds:
Chicken life cycle
Fish:
All about Seahorses from Mrs. Cotten, when she was in Australia
Most beautiful fish
clown fish life cycle
Favorites:
World favorite animals
cutest baby animals in the world
baby animal pics!
CAREERS IN THE SCIENCES
Life Science Jobs, and other sciences
Fastest Growing Green Jobs
List of Jobs in General-.gov
Physician Job Profile
BioMedical Engineer Job Profile
Pharmacist Job Profile
Software Architect Job Profile
Ecologist Job Profile
Oceanographer Job Profile
Market Research Analyst Job Profile
Clincal Research Associate Job Profile
Optomistrist Job Profile
A-Z Job Profiles
CareerGirls.com
Forbes: Highest Paying, in demand jobs Article- Physican, Tech jobs, Software Enginneer, Health Care Jobs, Pharmacists
Glassdoor- Highest Paying in demand jobs LIST