Use this template to create a flip book that will help students understand the difference between the terms ecosystem, habitat, population, and community.

Give students a manilla folder and have them write “Nucleus” on the cover.

Hole punch two holes on the top and two on the bottom (while folded, thus leaving eight hole-punches).

Explain that the nucleus contains all the information that makes each person who they are.

Give students a blue paper.

Fold it in half the long way, and cut about two-thirds in, ending in a curve, to make the shape of jeans. Write “Genes” on the top.

Use the leftover blue paper to make a pocket for the genes jeans. Have students write different traits they have on small slips of paper to put inside the pocket.

String the “genes jeans’ onto the “clothesline” of chromosomes. Explain that chromosomes are X-shaped and are where our genes are found.