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- Symbiosis Notes*: Students view a presentation in PPT or Google Slides and fill in blanks on a Cloze worksheet.
- Mutualism Text & Worksheet*: No textbook needed! Students read about mutualism, including tons of real-life examples such as butterflies and milkweed, bees and orchids, ants and fungi, and many more. After the reading, students answer text-dependent questions.
- Commensalism Text & Worksheet*: No textbook needed! Students read about commensalism, including numerous real-life examples such as cattle egrets and cows, barnacles and marine animals, plant seeds and animals, and many more. After the reading, students answer text-dependent questions.
- Parasitism Text & Worksheet*: No textbook needed! Students read about mutualism, including tons of real-life examples such as aphids and plants, lice and chickens, beech drops and beech trees, and many more. After the reading, students answer text-dependent questions.
- Symbiosis Graphic Organizer*: Students summarize what they have learned in the symbiosis readings with a convenient graphic organizer.
- Symbiosis Data Analysis & CER Stations*: Kids practice their data analysis skills as they dive deeper into examples of symbiosis! Students visit 10 stations. Each station provides information about a symbiotic relationship and a data table related to the information. Students use information in the text and data from the table to answer a question in the claims-evidence-reasoning format.
- Top 10 Weirdest Symbiotic Relationships Article & Questions*: This SUPER FUN and ENGAGING symbiotic relationships article teaches kids about cool and weird examples of mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism! (Eye worms, corpse flowers, and parasites that eat tongues, just to name a few – kids love this stuff!) Includes a follow-up worksheet with text-dependent questions.
- Symbiosis Review Worksheet: RIGOROUS! This worksheet includes prior standardized test questions from various NGSS-based state exams. Questions require more analysis than a typical matching or vocabulary worksheet, so they get kids thinking!
- Symbiosis Quiz: This 10-question multiple-choice quiz includes two versions and covers mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism.
*Skip the line at the copier! The starred resources include both PDF and digital Google Slides options to assign.
Key Terms:
- parasatism
- commensalism
- mutualism
- symbiosis
Teacher Notes:
- Answer keys are always included.
- Please note that these symbiosis activities are not editable.
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Related Standards:
- NGSS MS-LS2-2: Construct an explanation that predicts patterns of interactions among organisms across multiple ecosystems.
