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Nervous System
Are you nervous about teaching the nervous system to your beginning biologists? Worry no more! This PowerPoint provides a note-taking guide and diagrams of the neuron and the brain. Viewers will walk away with a clear understanding of...
Scholastic
Study Jams! The Senses: Smelling
It makes sense to sniff out a good lesson on the sense of smell. Here is a six-slide presentation that can be a strong component to that lesson! With photographs and expository graphics, life scientists find that smell is the detection...
University of Minnesota
Blind Spot
Your eyes each work independently, so how do we only see one image? The quick hands-on experiment encourages young scientists to test their blind spots on each eye individually. After learning where the blind spot is and why it exists,...
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Reflexes
Students experiment to explain how reflexes, nerve impulses travel to the brain.
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Quick Concept Demonstrations
Students research the nervous system. Demonstrations on how to pick up keyed information in text is shown daily and weekly. Reviewed for content is Nerve Impulse, Polarization and Depolarization and perception. A spreadsheet will graph...
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You Have Nerve!
Fourth graders investigate the nervous system and how it communicates messages to and from the brain.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
The Brain's Response to Drugs
Marijuana affects the brain differently than inhalants, which have a different effect than opioids. Elementary and middle school classes read about these drugs as well as nicotine, methamphetamine, hallucinogens, and steroids before...
Nemours KidsHealth
Vision
From the iris and retina to glasses and contact lenses, learners will be excited to see what activities are in store for them as they learn about the complex organ of the human eye.
College Board
2014 AP® Biology Free-Response Questions
The most popular AP science exam, Biology, also maintains the highest passing rate. The College Board releases old test questions covering trichomes and much more, along with statistics and scoring guidelines to help scholars study for...
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The Nervous System
In this nervous system instructional activity, students review the structure and function of the central nervous system. This instructional activity has 1 drawing and 17 fill in the blank statements.
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Invertebrate Chordates
Most chordates are easy to identify because of the specific classification criteria of their phylum. But what about tunicates? Young scientists read a short explanation about why tunicates, or sea squirts, are considered to be members of...
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Tissues
In this tissue worksheet, students are given notes on 6 types of epithelial tissues, 10 examples of connective tissue, three types of muscular tissue and the components of nerve tissue.
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Brain Anatomy
Students explore the brain. In this brain anatomy lesson, students explore the brain, identify the parts and neurons. They identify nerve pathways involved in daily activities.
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Mapping the Homunculus
Students determine the relative number of nerve endings located in the skin. By calculating the reciprocal of these measurements, students have the appropriate data for predicting the relative size of the homunculus found on the cerebral...
Lions Clubs International Foundation
Mindful Self-Management Exercise: Managing Stress
Help scholars manage stress with an activity that prompts them to think of their feelings as clouds floating over their heads. Learners identify their feelings, focus on their responses, and allow them to float away.
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Body Invaders: Headaches
Young scholars create a commercial for a headache treatment. In this headaches lesson, students view a video and discuss the types of headaches and their treatments. They write a script for a commercial for a headache treatment.
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The Nervous System
In this nervous system learning exercise, students ball up a piece of paper and stand in front of a friend and gently toss the paper ball at their face. Then they describe their friends response and why they actually responded to the...
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Invertebrate Chordates
In this invertebrate learning exercise, students fill in the blank of four statements that focus on the characteristics of invertebrate chordates. Then students will number five statements in the order water flows through a tunicate....
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Connect the Dots
In this connect the dot worksheet, learners connect he dots that link the numbers to reveal a part of the ducks body which has no nerves or blood vessels.
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Tissue Types
In this tissue worksheet, students are given a matrix with the major tissues, the specific types of tissue and the location of each tissue in the body. Students complete the missing components of the chart with either the major tissue,...
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Puppet on a String: An Engaging Look at Movement
Students examine how muscles can work together with joints. In this movement lesson students use a marionette to observe how muscles work.
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How Does Your Hair Know How Long to Grow?
Students explore how hairs know how long to grow despite not having nerves or eyes. They are introduced to the observed growth rates and lengths of phases in the hair growth cycle.
Small Planet Communications
The Nervous System
Eighth graders perform a variety of activities to explore the human nervous system--making posters, charts, presentations, etc. All activities are extremely well designed and planned for clear assessment.
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Regents High School Examination: Living Environment 2005
The 2005 version of the Regents High School Examination in the area of ecology is as comprehensive as previous years' exams. It consists of 40 multiple choice questions on everything from the structure of DNA to the interactions within...
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