NOVA: The Battle to Breathe - Worksheet & Key + Google Forms

Keep students watching and writing the whole way through with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet for NOVA: The Battle to Breathe (PBS, 2026). The 15 questions follow the video in the order it plays, so students record each answer as that moment happens on screen instead of reconstructing it afterward — which holds their attention and leaves them with an organized set of notes to study from later.

Built for Biology, it is a natural fit for High school Biology and AP Biology genetics units (grades 9-12) teaching autosomal-recessive inheritance, gene-to-protein expression, and protein folding - cystic fibrosis is one of the two or three diseases every genetics chapter names, and Anatomy and Physiology and Health Science classes covering the respiratory system, mucus and ciliary clearance, and the pancreas, plus AP Biology exam review on transcription, translation and membrane transport. The film runs about 53 minutes, so the sheet is built to carry a multi-day study or a longer viewing block rather than a single sitting. Use it as a full-period viewing activity, a guided companion when you hand the room to a substitute, or a focused review at the end of a unit. A complete answer key is printed on the final page, so whoever is covering the class can run it with no preparation and no background knowledge. The 2-pages layout is clean and low-ink, designed to print two-sided. Everything is laid out for a low-prep class period: hand out the page, press play, and let students do the rest. The questions stay in the order the video presents them, so students can follow along without losing their place. It prints cleanly in black and white, which keeps a full class set cheap to photocopy.

If it works well for your students, a quick rating wherever you downloaded it helps other teachers find it. Questions or a correction are always welcome at contact@responseresources.studio.