Are you a current, future, or prospective zoology teacher desperate to engage your zoology students in a meaningful activity every single day? Are you ready to cut down time spent lecturing and prepping and to maximize student learning? This full-year zoology curriculum bundle is exactly what you need to (1) cut down your time lecturing, (2) minimize your prep time, and (3) engage your students in a meaningful activity each day.
Teach zoology for a semester only? Scroll below to see how the curriculum can be modified for a half-year course.
What units are included?
- Unit 1: Biology Review
- Unit 2: Classification
- Unit 3: Introduction to Animals
- Unit 4: Porifera
- Unit 5: Cnidaria
- Unit 6: Platyhelminthes
- Unit 7: Nematoda
- Unit 8: Annelida
- Unit 9: Mollusca
- Unit 10: Arthropoda
- Unit 11: Echinodermata
- Unit 12: Chordata
- Unit 13: Fishes
- Unit 14: Amphibia
- Unit 15: Reptilia
- Unit 16: Birds
- Unit 17: Mammals
What is included in each unit?
- 4-to-8 page detailed pacing guide
- PowerPoint or presentation through Google Slides™ with editable text and teacher lecture notes
- Fill-in-the-blank notes packet
- Engaging activities for each and every day (each major unit includes between 10 and 20 activities, including escape rooms, gallery walks, virtual field trips, and more)
- Labs (ex. living planarian lab, living earthworm lab, arthropod modeling lab, living fish lab, and more)
- Dissections (earthworm, squid, crayfish, dogfish shark, frog, rat)
- An editable test, answer sheet, and key
Print or digital? 99% of resources are available in BOTH print and digital forms through Google Slides™. Every notes packet, lab, and activity includes a digital version through Google Slides™ with textboxes ready for students to type in their answers and click submit! A very small number of resources are only available in print form due to the nature of those resources (ex. sorting cards, crossword puzzles).
Are these resources editable?
I did my best to make this curriculum as editable as possible for you! All text in the PowerPoint, notes, and applicable activities is editable. In order to abide by copyright laws or to maintain formatting, the pictures in all resources are non-editable and cannot be moved. If you find you need anything to be more editable, don’t hesitate to email me and I’ll see what I can do!
Can this be modified for a half-year course? Absolutely! The curriculum is activity based, giving you the ability to pick and choose which activities you want to include. The text included on the notes is also editable, so you can adjust the notes to your schedule. Here are a few easy suggestions to shorten the curriculum.
- Skip Unit 1 and Unit 2 completely. (save 11 days)
- At the end of each unit, I include an optional day to complete an escape room. Skip the escape rooms. (save 14 days)
- Skip the myth or fact challenges at the beginning of the unit. (save 8 days)
- Instead of having students complete projects during in-class time, have them complete them on their own time. (save 10-ish days)
- Be choosy with your dissections. Rather than including all dissections, pick one or two. (save 10-ish days)
- Skip the videos and companion worksheets. (save 5 days)
- Assign the coloring packets for homework instead of giving students a full class period to work on them. (save 10-ish days)
- I have budgeted a full day for each test on the pacing guides, but historically my students finish tests with 10 – 20 minutes left in class. Use this time to get a head start on notes or the myth or fact activity for the next unit! (save 5-ish days)
Who do I have in mind while I’m developing this curriculum?
- Teachers who teach a full-year zoology course… and teachers who teach a half-year course! One goal I have for this curriculum is for it to be flexible.
- Teachers who currently teach zoology and want a streamlined, engaging, activity-packed curriculum
- Teachers who don’t currently teach zoology but are thrown the opportunity to start a new elective course
- Teachers who would love to teach zoology and want a curriculum to share with admin to get the ball rolling
- Parents who want an activity-based and easy-to-implement course for their homeschooled students
Do you have questions about the curriculum or need assistance as you implement it? You can reach me at rachel@sciencefromscratch.com. I’m here to help!
