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Protection, Support, and Locomotion
In this vertebrate skeleton learning exercise, students will read a paragraph about the function of bones, muscles, and skin. Then students will complete 6 short answer questions.
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Protection, Support, and Locomotion
In this human body instructional activity, students will review 5 terms associated with the skin by filling in the blank. Then students will read 14 statements about the human skeleton and muscles and determine if its true or false.
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An Arm and A Leg
Young scholars examine how the movements of bones are dependent on the interaction of pairs of muscles. They design and construct a prototype of an artificial limb using a syringe system, and determine whether water or air makes the...
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Rattle Your Bones and Flex Your Muscles
Third graders identify bones, muscles and joints. They explore and investigate the interaction between bones, muscles and joints, and movement of the hand or foot. To help the teacher provides a poster of the human skeleton.
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Protection, Support, and Locomotion
In this skeletal system activity, students will read a graphic organizer and complete 1 short answer question about the five functions of the skeleton. Then students will use a graphic organizer about muscle types to fill in a table...
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Nervous System and Senses
In this health activity, middle schoolers complete the crossword puzzle based upon the theme of the nervous system and its interaction with the senses.
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Mutations and Gene Regulation
Teenaged scientists can use this quiz or study guide to show off their understanding of genetic mutations and their causes; includes short answer, multiple choice, matching, and more.
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Youth and weightlifting
Students research and develop a weight training program appropriate for an 13-16 year old.
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Bones: The Body's Support
In this bones worksheet, students compare the axial and the appendicular skeletons. Students also review the bone components. This worksheet has 6 matching, 8 short answer, 4 fill in the blank, and 6 true or false questions.
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The Muscle System
In this biology learning exercise, 9th graders define striated and identify if the muscles of chicken's leg are striated or smooth. Then they determine how the muscles of a chicken leg are attached to the bones. Students also cut muscles...
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Biology Trivia
Learners answer questions. In this biology lesson, students answer various questions pertaining to biology.
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Biology Trivia
In this biology trivia worksheet, students write short answers to 101 questions about animal classification, human anatomy, animal facts, and attributes of organisms.
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Anatomy and Physiology "Quickies"
Students use a variety of creative writing tools within this assignment: poems on particular organ systems, write a short story and/or create a word graph. They are involved in a demonstration of lactic build up in the muscles, a...
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Integrating Biology: The Elements in Your Body
In this body elements worksheet, students read about the chemical make-up of the human body and answer questions about the elements.
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Skeletal and Muscular Systems Crossword Puzzle
In this crossword puzzle worksheet, students answer 17 clues about vocabulary related to the human skeletal and muscular systems.
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Plant and Animal Cells
Young scholars investigate the difference between plant and animal cells. They observe a variety o plant and animals cells by looking at a piece of cork, an onion, elodea, prepared slides of paramecium, human bone, frog blood, and human...
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Proteins
Students conduct a variety of experiments to explore protein. In this biology lesson, students solve a mystery by testing for the presence of glucose, protein starch and triglycerides. They explain how DNA transcription and translation...
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What is the Skeletal System?
Students investigate the human skeletal system. In this biology lesson, students trace the outline of their body onto butcher paper and fill in the names of the bones. Students use an overhead transparency of the human skeletal system to...
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The Strength of the Muscular System
Seventh graders investigate the strength of the muscular system. They explore voluntary and involuntary muscle movement and discuss the types of muscles: cardiac or heart, skeletal, and smooth. They visit stations to answer questions...
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Endocrine System: Hormones
Almost a duplicate of another slideshow on our site, these slides covering classes of hormones and their function, have gaps prepared for your pupils to fill in. This copy could be printed out for your class to complete as notes during...
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Endocrine System - Hormones
Use this attractive PowerPoint to introduce all the hormones and their functions to your students. As students view each slide, they should be able to see the relevance of many of the chemicals and their interaction with the human body....
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Endocrine System: Hormones
The many images and labeled diagrams in this PowerPoint will help learners understand different areas of the endocrine system. The slide
show starts with information about the absorption of lipid and protein based hormones, and then...
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Health Physics: The Effects of Radiation on Living Things
A mix of scientific details and background information about the well-known sites of radiation attacks or accidents. This topic may open up details that you may consider as sensitive, and could be upsetting to some pupils. This is a...
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Vertebrate Skeletons
For this biology worksheet, students examine the human skeleton and then classify animal bones according to their similar function.