Help students explain how body systems work together and how organisms use food matter and energy. This 36-page printable PDF puts a detailed five-step teacher worked example at the center of instruction: Read the clues, Annotate, Find evidence, Analyze, and Eliminate and justify.
The student review lessons provide quick checks of understanding of the targeted standards before test prep, helping teachers identify misconceptions and support student success. Four illustrated lessons connect directly to four simple hands-on paper models and the review questions.
Included:
- Teacher facilitation guidance for student ownership, peer feedback, responsive grouping and closing self-assessment, informed by the Louisiana Educator Rubric. Ratings depend on observed teaching and student evidence.
- Two-page teacher think-aloud with evidence marking, distractor explanations and guided transfer.
- Four review lessons and eight quick checks: interacting body systems, nervous-system information processing, photosynthesis/respiration, and food-matter uses.
- Four connected paper activities with materials, directions, reusable cards, recording prompts, teacher answers and model limits. No food tasting, live culturing or exercise required.
- Shared system and process diagrams and model evidence.
- Four multiple-choice questions, a select-two item, dependent and independent pairs, and two-point written response with keys and scoring.
- Original six-point extended task with response space and task-specific criteria.
- Eight task cards and matching answer cards.
- Optional six-point digital quiz questions, setup directions and manual scoring guidance. A premade live Form is not included.
Standards: Targets Louisiana 7-MS-LS1-3, 7-MS-LS1-6 and 7-MS-LS1-7, with corresponding NGSS MS-LS1-3, MS-LS1-6 and MS-LS1-7. The sensory information-processing lesson also connects to NGSS MS-LS1-8 content. Includes Louisiana-specific homeostasis, sensory information processing, photosynthesis and respiration, and aerobic/anaerobic comparisons. Official LDOE assessment guidance and standards references checked October 27, 2026. This is independent topic review that can support the Amplify Metabolism topic; it is not the complete Amplify curriculum or an official LEAP resource.
Use: Suitable for review, small groups, intervention and prepared substitute packets. Teachers select and print the needed sections and prepare cards in advance. Students benefit from prior instruction. Paper activities model mechanisms and do not experimentally measure metabolism or diagnose health conditions.
File format: Printable PDF. No editable Word template is included in the purchase.
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