Be a Scientist

This lesson requires students to do a report on distinct scientific fields using Shape of Life videos, Internet resources and a handout about “Cool Science Careers”.

Lesson Plan Files
Lesson Category
Science Process

Videos to use with this lesson

Damhnait McHugh, Ecologist: Annelid Ecology
Des Collins, Paleontologist: The Burgess Shale
Geerat Vermeij, Evolutionary Biologist: Reading A Shell’s Story
Genetics: Genes Tell Us About Evolution
Ian Lawn, Neurobiologist: Anemone Nervous System
Jack Costello, Biologist: Why Jellyfish Swim
James Hagadorn, Paleontologist: Traces of Early Animal Life
Jenny Clack, Paleontologist: The First Vertebrate Walks on Land
John Pearse, Don Wobber, Biologists: Sea Star Behavior
Kristi Curry Rogers, Paleontologist: How Dinosaurs Grow
Matt Scott, Geneticist: How Genes Build Bodies
Mitchell Sogin, Evolutionary Biologist: Proof of the First Animal
Paleontology: Paleontologists Study Fossils
Paleontology: Paleontologists Study Tracks and Traces