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Human Body Lessons
Students read "The Magic School Bus in the Human Body" and discuss the importance of maintaining a healthy body. They create a hinge and joint paper skeleton, follow the journey of a hamburger through the digestive tract, jump rope and...
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We've Come a Long Way, Baby!
Students study technology and the different reproductive technologies available today. In this human reproductive technology instructional activity students describe how engineers create technologies to improve the health of mothers and...
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Digestion Simulation
Middle schoolers study the human digestion system and the functions of the stomach and small intestines. In this digestion lesson students view a demonstration on the process.
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Watershed Documentary
Students conduct research and collect data about a local watershed area. They create an iMovie showing the human and natural impacts on the creek and watershed areas.
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Comparing Fossils
Students explore early hominid evolution as they analyze bones that share characteristics of both apes and humans. Students compare and contrast key skeletal differences between chimpanzees and humans. In groups, they sort and group a...
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Born to be Wild
Students watch an episode depicting the human vs. polar bear conflict in Churchill, Canada. They conduct online research and analyze the information. They interpret the facts and use storytelling techniques and role playing to convey...
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Lesson Six
Students examine the ocean and its vast resources. In this oceans instructional activity students complete a "seaweed candy" activity then eat their creation.
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Human Evolution
High schoolers examine fossils in order to study humans and how humans evolved over time. In this human evolution lesson students examine different genetic relationships between humans and other species.
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Exploring Environmental Change
Learners examine environments and how the impacts human activities can cause. In this environmental change lesson students research how human activity is causing local environmental changes.
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Born of Blood
Students define attributes of human chromosomes and match them to make a human karyotype. In this investigative instructional activity students demonstrate how traits are encoded in genes found on chromosomes.
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P.L.E.P: Parts of Blood
Students examine the different parts of blood. In this human blood lesson students work in groups and identify parts of blood and construct a model of human blood.
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Stages of Life
Pupils investigate the eight stages of human development. In this stages of life lesson students discuss as a class the stages and complete an activity.
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Ancient Hunters of the Great Lakes
High schoolers describe theories on how the first humans came to America and show the evidence that supports it. In this investigative lesson students study given material and prepare written or oral reports in their groups.
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Life in Space: International Space Station
Students explore the potential challenges of living in space. In this investigative lesson students search the Internet to locate 16 nations that are working together to build the Independent Space Station, then they divide into groups...
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Tortilla Factory
Students identify productive resources and intermediate goods used to produce corn tortillas. In this productive resources lesson, students listen to the book Tortilla Factory and classify resources used to make paper tacos.
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Human Body Parts
Pupils create body cutouts of themselves and label specific internal and external organs/parts that are covered in class in this exciting lesson on Human Anatomy. Digital cameras and pictures of various internal organs are required.
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Human Power or Machine Power
Students compare different means for accomplishing tasks. They explain benefits and liabilities for the above different means. Exploration is studied in photos of laborers, animals and machines doing work.
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Pulse and Blood Pressure
Sixth graders monitor and record vital signs of fellow classmates. In this vital sign lesson students use medical instruments to measure pulse and blood pressure.
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Issues in Genomics
Students explore the definition of ethics and genomics. In this organism lesson plan students participate in the chosen teacher lesson plan.
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Human Activity and Cllimate Change
Students perform activities to explore the affect of human activity on climates. They examine graphs of GHG emissions and their increases that are associated with human activity. Using a Global Climate Changing website, students explore...
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Body Length Experiment
Students measure the lengths of their bodies and various body parts to determine the relationship (or lack of one) between body part length and the length of the entire body. A spreadsheet program is suggested for data collection.
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The Chromosome Connection
Students evaluate the degree of chromosome similarity and difference between humans and apes. Students infer about the relationship between a human and ape based on similarities found.
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Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Seventh graders determine the characteristics of insect families after comparing human family characteristics. They categorize insects by looking for similar characteristics on image cards.