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Animals and organisms in general have incredible talents, variety and a great deal of scientific learning that they can help us understand. Animals and organisms come from deep sea creatures to fungi to invertebrates and protozoa even to unusual pollinators and spiders! Organisms are just excellent to learn about. From their adaptations to their ability to be bioluminescent… animals provide us with a source of inspiration and a great deal of learning as does this set of research project templates.

These animals based research project templates (webquests) provides the perfect grab and go, print and provide resources that can help your students learn all about biology / life science topics. For digital, you can provide a Google doc copy for ease of submission or a Microsoft word version as well. In these biology related research project templates (webquests) with questions to check comprehension and inspire scientific thinking. They gives a rich and supportive framework that can be tweaked as needed for students to support differentiation.

These animals science research project templates include:

• 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!

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

AN ANIMALS 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:

Animals Biology / Life Science Research Project Template

• 7 - 7 page Google doc teacher version with supporting appendix items
• 7 - 3 page Google doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
• 7 - 7 page Word doc teacher version with supporting appendix items
• 7 - 3 page Word doc student version with room to fill in answers (text boxes)
• 7 - 7 page PDF teacher version with supporting appendix items
• 7 - 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

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.