The Focus On Elementary Biology Student Textbook (3rd Edition) covers biology fundamentals, including what life is, cells, plants, animals, bacteria, and viruses.
 
The Focus On Elementary Biology Student Textbook, 3rd Edition introduces young students to the scientific discipline of biology. Students will learn about the history of the study of biology; tools used by biologists; characteristics of living things; how scientists sort living things into groups (taxonomy); cells and their makeup and functions; how plants make food (photosynthesis); parts of a plant and their functions; life cycles of plants, butterflies, and frogs; microscopic organisms (protists) and how they move and eat; viruses, bacteria, and archaea; fungi, molds, mushrooms, and yeasts; animal cells; many different animal phyla; and more.