Biology Accelerate (Grades 3-7)

This curiosity-building biology curriculum bundle of six Accelerate-level Science Unlocked kits will engage your middle school student in hands-on learning for an entire school year. This full-year science biology curriculum includes:

• Full-colored student workbook
• Student assessments
• Supplies and equipment needed for experiments
• Real-world application

No prior teaching or science experience is needed! Teachers and parents, you will be well-equipped. Science Unlocked detailed teacher guides will help guide you through assisting with hands-on middle school biology curriuclum learning experiences with:

• Context and answers to student questions
• Options for including children of different ages and abilities
• Step-by-step experiment instructions
• Lesson planning timeline

The Biology Accelerate (Grades 3-7) Science Unlocked bundle includes the following kits:

Unit 1: Adaptations and Survival (4 Kits)

How's It Growin'?

Plant Resources and How to Get Them

Discover the world of plant growth including the variety in plant parts, plant needs, and what plants will do to meet their needs.

Eye Spy

Spotlight on Structure and Function for Survival

Open your eyes to the unique traits that make species perfectly suited to survive in their habitats.

Seeking Survival

The Role of Relationships and Biodiversity

Learn the intricacies of ecological relationships by simulating pollinator and plant relationships and testing predator behavior.

Hungry for Change

Connecting Populations and the Environment

Make connections between populations and the environment while discovering an amazing insect that breaks down plastics.

Unit 2: Structure and Function (2 Kits)

Making Sense of Senses

Traveling Through the Brain

Discover synesthesia and make a brain hat to learn how the brain processes your senses which allows you to experience the world.

Magnificent Magnification

Bringing an Unseen World into Focus

Look into the microscopic world of plants and animals by creating your own slides, and explore the smaller side of life!

More information about the learning objectives in each kit can be found in the contents section below. This NAPPA award winning curriculum is based on NGSS science standards for 3rd through 7th grade science education. Read below in the contents section to learn more about the standards met in each kit. 

More Information

• How's it Growin'? Safety Information (SDS)
• Eye Spy Safety Information (SDS)
• Making Sense of Senses Safety Information (SDS)
• Magnificent Magnification Safety Information (SDS)

This Accelerate level Science Unlocked bundle includes:

• How's it Growin'?
• Eye Spy
• Seeking Survival
• Hungry for Change
• Making Sense of Senses
• Magnificent Magnification

• How's it Growin'?
  • Learning outcome: Design and conduct investigations to discover the world of plant growth, including the variety in plant parts, plant needs, and what plants will do to meet their needs.
  • NGSS science standards alignment
  • 3-LS4-3: Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
  • 5-LS1-1: Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water.
  • MS-LS1-6: Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence for the role of photosynthesis in the cycling of matter and flow of energy into and out of organisms.
• Eye Spy
  • Learning outcome: Open your eyes to the unique traits that make species perfectly suited to survive in their habitats.
  • NGSS science standards alignment
  • 3-LS3-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
  • 3-LS3-2: Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
  • 3-LS4-1: Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago.
  • 3-LS4-2: Use evidence to construct an explanation for how the variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and reproducing.
• Seeking Survival
  • Learning outcome: Simulate and study the relationships species have in the wild!
  • NGSS science standards alignment
  • 3-LS2-1: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive.
  • 3-LS4-4: Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
  • MS-LS1-4: Use argument based on empirical evidence and scientific reasoning to support an explanation for how characteristic animal behaviors and specialized plant structures affect the probability of successful reproduction of animals and plants respectively.
• Hungry for Change
  • Learning outcome: Discover an amazing insect that can break down plastics on our planet!
  • NGSS science standards alignment
  • 3-LS1-1: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
  • MS-LS2-3: Develop a model to describe the cycling of matter and flow of energy among living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
  • MS-LS2-4: Construct an argument supported by empirical evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.
• Making Sense of Senses
  • Learning outcome: Discover synesthesia and make a brain hat to learn how the brain processes your senses which allows you to experience the world.
  • NGSS science standards alignment
  • 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
  • 4-LS1-2: Use a model to describe that animals receive different types of information through their senses, process the information in their brain, and respond to the information in different ways.
  • MS-LS1-8: Gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.
• Magnificent Magnification
• Learning outcome: Have you ever wondered about the world too small for the human eye to see? Look into the microscopic world by creating your own slides, and explore the smaller side of life!
• NGSS science standards alignment
• MS-LS1-1: Conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.
• MS-LS1-2: Develop and use a model to describe the function of a cell as a whole and ways parts of cells contribute to the function.
• MS-LS1-3: Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.