Middle School Life Science

Welcome to Albert's Middle School Life Science course!

This page provides specific content-related information for Albert's Middle School Life Science course, including how it is organized, how to find questions using standards or tags, and ideas for classroom uses. If you need technical assistance, please visit our Help Center or contact hello@albert.io.

Middle School Life Science is organized by content themes and further broken down into topics. The content themes represent a unit of study and are shown below:

Each theme contains a range of specific topics. For example, here are some topics within the Interactions in Ecosystems theme:

Some themes have phenomenon-based topics. These are special topics at the end of most themes that are unique phenomenon-based sets of supplements and questions based on the Next Generation Science Standards.

Each topic contains two subtopics that categorize questions into their designated skill level types. The two subtopics used in Middle School Life Science are below:

All Albert questions are aligned to state standards relevant to the subject matter, including the Next Generation Science Standards.

This standards-alignment provides another easy way to find useful questions besides the Theme and Topic organization. Using the Standards button at the top left corner of any subject page, you can filter for just your state’s standard set then simply search for your state’s standards to find all questions in our course library aligned to that standard! For more details, please see this article in our Help section.

This course also includes Albert’s own Middle School Science Standards, which can also be used to search for content. The standards follow the format Albert MSLS 1.A.1.

In addition to searching by the standards’ names, you can also search by their content! Simply type in a few words from the standard description to see all relevant standards pertaining to that content.

Albert’s Middle School Life Science course includes three types of tags, content, question type, and skill. These are words or phrases that provide information about what a question covers, such as the content tag history, the question type tag application, or the skills tag graph. Tags provide another easy way to search for relevant content in our course library. Simply search using the Tags button at the top left corner of any guide level.

Middle School Life Science uses a variety of question types to test students’ understanding of content and provide meaningful practice of important skills.

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