Protozoans | Biology / Life Science Reading Comprehension 2 Passages & Questions

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Protozoa offer a vivid, microscope-level window into cell biology, evolution, and ecosystem dynamics, making them a perfect anchor topic for middle and high school life science standards such as NGSS MS-LS1 and HS-LS1. Presenting the material through two carefully leveled science reading passages - one richly detailed for advanced readers and one written in clear, accessible language - ensures every student can grasp concepts like phagocytosis, vector-borne disease, and the carbon cycle while still being challenged at the right depth. Each passage comes with aligned comprehension and critical-thinking questions that could help build into learning about and on scientific vocabulary, data analysis skills, and evidence-based reasoning, turning literacy time into hands-on inquiry. This differentiated format streamlines lesson planning, reinforces cross-curricular reading goals, and maximizes engagement by letting students progress from foundational facts to higher-order application without leaving anyone behind.

This 2 article set of protozoans articles provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resource that can help your students learn all about protozoa. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In this protozoans article with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking.

For many educational standards, a base level of content knowledge is needed around the relevant topics, this protozoans article covers that foundational knowledge for the standards: MS-LS1-1 | MS-LS1-2 | HS-LS1-5

The accessible version is geared towards approximately 5th / 6th / 7th grade science students, while the more advanced version is geared towards approximately 8th / 9th / 10th grade science students. This range for both could be extended with prep work or additional materials.

THIS PROTOZOANS ARTICLE CAN BE USED SO MANY WAYS:

Useful for substitute (sub) teaching
To extend students
To increase scientific literacy in your class
A weekly reading task
Great as a lesson filler when class goes too fast
To inspire students on a particular topic
Give a selection of these articles for students to choose from

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THIS PROTOZOANS ARTICLE:

2 - 3 page Word doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
2 - 2 page Word doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
2 - 3 page PDF teacher version with answers
2 - 2 page PDF student version without answers (but space left to do so)
2 - 3 page Google doc image - textboxes teacher version with answers
2 - 2 page Google doc image - textboxes student version with room to fill answers (text boxes)

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.

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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).