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Six human tissues classroom poster preview Cells Build Tissues classroom poster preview

Human Tissues: Beyond the Circle & Dot

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Classroom collection · 11 resources

Bring cells into focus with color visuals, sketching activities, and supports for different learners.

4 organizer optionsPosters & flipchartsKeys & career slides

Explore six tissue samples, compare their structure with the circle-with-a-dot model, and predict how injury changes them. Choose the drawing and writing support that fits your students.

4 student organizers · Teacher reference · 2 answer keys · Career slides · 3 flipchart and poster visuals

Student organizers

Teacher resources

Flipchart & poster visuals

Career connections

Preview of the Parts of a Microscope teaching slide, with a labeled microscope and total magnification example.

Microscope Lab: Looking Closer

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Microscope Lab · Notes & Station Guides

Help students use a light microscope and make careful observations. Guided notes and matching slides introduce microscope parts, cross sections, Robert Hooke, and scale, proportion, and quantity.

Portrait + compact notes · Teaching slides · Station guide

Student materials 3 PDFs

Teacher materials PPTX

Three Scientific Reading Bookmark backs: Nonfiction Signposts, Think Like a Scientist, and Reading Strategy Tools.

Scientific Reading Bookmarks

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Reading Bookmarks · 3 PDFs

A reading toolkit for students’ notebooks. Each bookmark has Extract → Organize → Apply and annotation marks on the front. Choose one of three reference guides for the back.

Two per sheet · Unbranded · Print at 100%, double-sided, flipping on the long edge

Preview of the PIRL Science and Engineering Practices Tracker with eight practice rows, checkpoint columns, a scoring key, and student reflection prompts.

Science and Engineering Practices Tracker

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Assessment & Tracking · Editable Word

Keep a yearlong record of how students use the eight science and engineering practices. Record checkpoints across units and connect each score to the specific practice element and student work.

1 landscape page · 11 checkpoints · Suggested 1–4 scale · Student reflection

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Preview of the PIRL Crosscutting Concepts Tracker with seven concept rows, checkpoint columns, a scoring key, and student reflection prompts.

Crosscutting Concepts Tracker

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Assessment & Tracking · Editable Word

Track how students use the seven crosscutting concepts to explain phenomena across units. Revisit their reasoning about patterns, causes, systems, and change, using evidence from the specific concept element assessed.

1 landscape page · 11 checkpoints · Suggested 1–4 scale · Student reflection

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How I Teach It: Injuries and Healing, OpenSciEd 6.6 Lesson 1. Notebook-style cover with a foot X-ray, walking boot, and recovery notes.

How I Teach the Unit Intro: Start with the Mystery

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How I Teach It · OpenSciEd 6.6 · Lesson 1

I launch the unit with injury images and medical reports, then use my Injury Mystery Lab, recovery-report annotations, and hands-on stations to help students build and revise explanations from evidence.

Two 66-minute meetings · Classroom screenshots · Annotated recovery-report example

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How I Teach It: Medical Images, OpenSciEd 6.6 Lesson 3. Notebook-style cover with a foot X-ray and cross-sectional image, subtitled Seeing structure before function.

How I Teach Medical Images: Seeing Structure Before Function

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How I Teach It · OpenSciEd 6.6 · Lesson 3

I start with my Medical Images simulation, use reciprocal teaching with selected readings, then teach a mini-lesson on structure, systems, and subsystems. Students finish with a summary that connects the images and text.

Simulation → reading → mini-lesson → summary · Function comes later

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Medical Imaging Argument Practice

The same four scenarios, with three ways to practice claims, evidence, and reasoning.

Simple marker-style flip chart defining structures, systems, and subsystems with a labeled arm model.
Simple flip chart
Detailed infographic connecting body structures and arm movement with medical-image evidence of injury and healing.
Detailed infographic

Flip Chart Ideas: Structures, Systems & Subsystems

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Flip Chart Ideas · 2 Images

Two portrait visuals for the Medical Images mini-lesson: a simple design to recreate with markers and a detailed infographic for student review in Google Classroom. Connect body structures, interacting systems, and evidence of injuries and healing.

OpenSciEd 6.6 · Lesson 3 companion · 2 portrait PNGs

Observation illustration from the Injuries and Healing vocabulary practice set.

Injuries & Healing: Vocabulary Practice

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Interactive Vocabulary Practice

Practice 60 science words with illustrated flashcards, word–picture–definition questions, and short application challenges. Choose an early, middle, or end-of-unit study set to match what you have learned.

Custom word sets · 2 or 4 answer choices · No timer

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Illustrated Observation card from the Injuries and Healing word wall.

Injuries & Healing: Illustrated Vocabulary Word Wall

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Illustrated Word Wall · 4 PDFs

Build vocabulary across OpenSciEd Unit 6.6 with 111 illustrated cards. The complete collection is divided into four smaller, classroom-ready PDF sections for easier downloading, printing, and posting.

Landscape cards · Student-friendly definitions · Medical and life science vocabulary

See–Think–Wonder student guide with four boxes for observing, explaining, investigating, and revising, plus sentence frames.

See–Think–Wonder: Student Guide

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Student Thinking · PDF

A four-square guide with sentence frames and guiding questions for observing, explaining, investigating, and revising ideas. Use it alongside notebooks, images, models, or investigations.

1-page student reference · Sentence frames and guiding questions

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First page of the Think Like a Scientist flipchart, showing four thinking moves and reminders to connect ideas with evidence.

Think Like a Scientist: Classroom Flipchart

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Classroom Display · PDF

Six visual pages model how to observe, explain, investigate, and revise. Includes a connected example, sentence starters, and a final check to strengthen student thinking.

6 landscape pages · Print for a flipchart or classroom display

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Scientific Reading Flipchart Printables preview showing the Extract, Organize, Apply framework.

Scientific Reading: Flipchart Printables

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Science Literacy · Classroom Display · PDF

Use Extract → Organize → Apply as a consistent science-reading workflow, then layer in other strategies when the text calls for them. Additional pages support Reciprocal Teaching, Collaborative Strategic Reading, text structure, Text → Visual → Explain, QAR, CER, and critique.

20 landscape pages · Extra-large classroom text · Print for a flipchart or display

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A clear classroom model showing red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma.

A Model of Blood

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Model & Visual

A concrete model of blood components that helps students see how red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma fit together.

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Students working with blood samples and a microscope in a science classroom.

Modifying OpenSciEd Unit 6.6 Lesson 4: Blood

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Lesson & Activity

A practical look at adapting a lesson that already has worthwhile ideas—protecting the learning target while testing stronger ways to teach it.

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A classroom station with colored materials for a bloodstream role-playing activity.

Bloodstream Role-Playing Game

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Lesson & Activity

Students become blood cells, platelets, or plasma and rotate through body-system stations to see how the bloodstream changes during healing.

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Anatomical illustration surrounded by cell types and lifespan comparisons.

Lifespan of Cells

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Model & Visual · PDF

An illustrated reference comparing cell lifespans across the human body, with questions about cell renewal and why different cells last different lengths of time.

Adapted from OpenSciEd; the PDF includes its attribution.

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The skin page compares the whole body, a skin cross section and epidermal cells.

Scale & Zone: Human Body

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Model & Visual · PDF

Six visual comparisons connect the whole body, tissues and cells through skin, muscle, bone, blood vessels, nerves and adipose tissue.

Preview shows the skin page; the PDF contains all six comparisons.

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Side-by-side examples compare open-ended tasks with scaffolded versions.

Differentiating Classwork

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Teacher Support · PDF

Five practical examples show how partially completed models, word banks, sentence starters, diagrams and guided notes can support students while keeping the learning goal in focus.

A quick visual reference for planning classroom supports.

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