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Learning about mitosis and meiosis gives middle and high school students a deeper understanding of how living organisms grow, repair damaged tissues, reproduce, and pass genetic information from one generation to the next. This engaging pair of resources helps bring the fascinating science of making new cells to life through a combination of literacy based learning and inquiry driven investigation. The dual reading passage set introduces students to the processes and importance of mitosis and meiosis through two accessible texts. The first passage contains approximately 15 informative paragraphs supported by six questions, including three comprehension questions, a fill in the gaps activity, a true or false task, and a critical thinking prompt.

The second passage provides approximately 10 additional paragraphs with five questions, including two comprehension questions, a fill in the gaps activity, a true or false question, and another opportunity for deeper reflection and analysis. Complementing these readings is a comprehensive research project template featuring a one paragraph summary, mathematics connection, engineering or technological connection, five term glossary, three challenging inquiry questions, and a creative item space that encourages students to demonstrate understanding in multiple ways. Six additional inquiry questions divided into easier and more advanced sets provide valuable differentiation opportunities for diverse learners.

A detailed 20 point rubric supports self, peer, or teacher assessment, while clear teacher guidance ensures straightforward implementation. The included 10 page HTML resource offers extensive primer material on mitosis and meiosis and includes convenient JSON export and import functionality for student responses, making it suitable as both a stand alone learning experience and an enhancement to existing lessons. Ideal for biology, genetics, cell division, heredity, and life science units, this versatile resource bundle promotes scientific literacy, critical thinking, research skills, and meaningful cross curricular connections while helping students appreciate the cellular processes that make life possible.

This mitosis and meiosis research project template (webquest) provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about mitosis and meiosis. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this mitosis and meiosis research project template (webquest) with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. It gives a rich and supportive framework that can be tweaked as needed for students to support differentiation.

This mitosis and meiosis research project template includes:

Space for a one paragraph summary (that links to the 2 page science article also available on this topic - but does not have to).
Students should produce a mathematical connection, an engineering / technology connection, 2 interesting facts / stats.
5 glossary terms they should fill in with their own words (which also links to the science article also available)
3 thought provoking questions (ie: critical thinking questions) they must answer.
Finally, each template has 3 alternative thought provoking questions for younger students and 3 other alternative harder questions to extend high flying or older students. Giving you a total of 9 possible thought provoking questions that could be used with students to enhance their research and critical thinking.
Further, I have added a 1 page - 20 point rubric to be used for either self-assessment or teacher assessment as you deem fit. I hope it helps support the learning even further!
A new and improved HTML format addition to give plentiful initial materials.

The template is some of my best work and I am proud to share it with you.

The mitosis and meiosis science article provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can supplement lessons. It is a mitosis and meiosis article with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. I am very proud of this series of science articles and they are rich with information and wonder at the majesty of science. Each science article includes a fun fact(s) to add to the knowledge gained from this article. Formatted in an easy to read and digest manner, each paragraph is numbered to help with referencing and each question answer has a paragraph reference number to point to the specific information (where applicable).

A SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJECT TEMPLATE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
To extend students
To increase scientific literacy and research skills in your class
Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast and you need a long running task
To inspire students on a particular topic
As a scaffold to support students who need support on research skills and can use a framework
To enhance critical thinking when doing research and making a relevant and interesting output
Give a selection of these research project templates for students to choose from
To enhance students ability to express ideas and synthesis knowledge
To increase scientific literacy in your class
A weekly reading / research task

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

Mitosis & Meiosis Science Research Project Template

7 page Google doc teacher version with supporting appendix items
3 page Google doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
7 page Word doc teacher version with supporting appendix items
3 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
7 page PDF teacher version with supporting appendix items
3 page PDF student version with space to fill in answers
1 page 20 point rubric for self or teacher assessment in all three - Google doc, Word doc and PDF form
10 page HTML format addition with plenty of materials to initially support students. (UPDATE)

Mitosis & Meiosis Dual Science Article

2 x 3 page Word doc teacher version with answers
2 x 2 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
2 x 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
2 x 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
2 x 3 page Google doc teacher version with answers
2 x 2 page Google doc student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)
New 2 - 2 page HTML format that works on any browser allows answers to put in and saved via JSON format and uploaded via JSON format too for ease of use!

Please note: That the Doc versions are images with editable text boxes overlayed on top and this is the most effective way to keep the article sleek and well-designed and also that students cannot change things significantly.