This mini bundle on viruses includes everything you need to include viruses in your biology class- from an engaging PowerPoint presentation to a quiz, and some fun tasks in between!

Topics included:

• Basic virus structure: capsid, nucleic acids, envelope, glycoproteins
• Viruses compared to cells and the properties of life
• Common viruses
• Lysogenic and Lytic cycles with mention of bacteriophages
• Viral replication in animal cells
• HIV and influenza

Resources included:

• Engaging, editable PowerPoint presentation with student fill-in version
• Reading Exercise: Viruses and Viral Replication
• Are Viruses Alive? Jigsaw
• Viruses Graphic Organizer
• Viruses Want Ad (with more advanced differentiation version)
• Doctor for a Day: optional project on human viruses
• Study Guide
• Quiz
• Pacing Guide for both 50 minute and 90 minute blocks for anywhere from 2-5 class periods depending on length of class and available time commitment

Standards Addressed:
TEKS
NGSS cross curricular (see preview)
This mini unit is included in my Biology Curriculum Bundle and ties in with my cells unit. Have a question before purchasing? Leave me a question in my store, or send me an email: [email protected]

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