SketchEd Science · Book 1

Biology Made Fun: Crosswords & Color Your Learning

Biology vocabulary students remember — because they drew it, solved it, and colored it themselves.

Biology Made Fun is the first book in the SketchEd Science series: a biology vocabulary workbook built on crosswords and coloring, so students learn the language of life science by working with it, not just reading it.

Biology is a vocabulary-heavy subject, and students who don't own the words struggle with everything built on top of them. Biology Made Fun gives each term a second home — a picture, a puzzle answer, a labeled diagram — so that when students meet the word in class, on a lab sheet, or on an exam, they already know what it means.

An expanded edition is coming

An expanded, refreshed edition of Biology Made Fun is in the works. The edition on sale today is the current 75-page edition. When the expanded edition is available, this page will say so.

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Book facts

TitleBiology Made Fun: Crosswords & Color Your Learning
SeriesSketchEd Science · Book 1
AuthorsAshish C. Abraham & Dr. Tena Abraham
ISBN979-8-9923233-0-6
ASINB0DS3WGF57
Pages75 (current edition)
Price$9.99 on Amazon (current edition)
StatusPublished and on sale · expanded edition coming

The SketchEd method

We're selling a system, not just a book. Every SketchEd title is built on word–picture association: vocabulary is internalized when students connect each word to an image they create and use.

  1. Sketch the Words — students turn each vocabulary term into a picture they draw themselves, so the word and the idea are stored together.
  2. Crosswords — the vocabulary comes back as a puzzle, and students retrieve each term from its meaning.
  3. See It — visual pages that show the concept before students are asked to explain it.
  4. Color & Label — diagrams students color and label, connecting each structure or process to its name.
  5. Prove It — quick checks that show whether the vocabulary has really been internalized.

Go Further pages

Biology Made Fun has 13 reserved Go Further pages on this site under /go/bio/ — one per unit, from Scientific Inquiry & the Microscope through Immunity & Biotechnology.

See the full Go Further plan →