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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Temperature Time Warp

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains why cold-blooded creatures need a warm environment to survive.
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Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Temperature Time Warp

For Students K - 1st
In this activity, learners explore the behavior of cold-blooded animals by observing what happens when they change a fly's temperature.
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Homeostasis: Blood Sugar and Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete, student-paced lesson on homeostasis in the human body, focusing on blood sugar and core temperature. Students work their way through illustrated and animated tutorials, and answer review questions along the way. There is a...
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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Be a Scientist

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students practice estimating Celsius temperatures using a thermometer in this interactive web lesson. Boiling, freezing, and human body temperatures are used as benchmarks for estimating.
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Body Cooling Rate of Animals

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make two models to stimulate the cooling rate of different skin surface areas. They use a Temperature Sensor to measure the cooling rate of the models. The students also compare the cooling rates of the models to determine the...
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Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Experiments: Staying Warm Winter Experiments

For Students 2nd - 4th
A lot of your body heat escapes from your head. Wearing a hat stops some of this heat loss. Try this simple experiment to prove it.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Perspiration Cooling of Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses perspiration in the context of physics.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Homeostasis in Humans

For Students 9th - 10th
Homeostasis is the regulation of internal conditions inside cells or organisms, to create the optimum conditions for biological function, including body temperature. Links to a video and test are provided.
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Encyclopedia of Earth

Encyclopedia of Earth: Atlantic Ocean

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the features, size, salinity, temperature, ocean floor, currents, and tides of the Atlantic Ocean.
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DOGO Media

Dogo News: Why Seeing Ice Powers Sends Shivers Down Your Spine

For Students 6th - 8th
Article reports on the effect that seeing images of extreme cold can have on the physical body. Includes video.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
With the help of simple, teacher-led demonstration activities, students learn the basic concepts of heat transfer by means of conduction, convection, and radiation. Students then apply these concepts as they work in teams to solve two...
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Globio

Glossopedia: Chocolate

For Students 3rd - 8th
Chocolate begins as a seed of the tropical cacao tree. It has been a prized taste sensation for more than 2,500 years. One reason chocolate is so nice to eat is that it melts just below body temperature. So it really does melt in your...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Heat Generation in Brown Fat

For Students 9th - 10th
Read the passage "Heat Generation in Brown Fat" and complete the related five-question quiz.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Mammal Endothermy

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how mammals maintain their body temperature.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Energy and Heat Balance

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how the human body regulates temperature and explain the significance of the metabolic rate.
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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Skin Structure and Function

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive, self-paced lesson on the body's largest organ, the skin. Students learn information and watch descriptive animations to aid in understanding, answering review questions throughout the activity. A self-check quiz follows...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: How Do Human Sensors Work?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This lesson highlights the similarities between human sensors and their engineering counterparts. Taking this approach enables learners to view the human body as a system, that is, from the perspective of an engineer. Humans have...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Requirements for Human Life

For Students 9th - 10th
Earth and its atmosphere have provided us with air to breathe, water to drink, and food to eat, but these are not the only requirements for survival. Although you may rarely think about it, you also cannot live outside of a certain range...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Physiology Monitoring and Cycles Lab With Report

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using physiology monitoring, students will understand how to collect data using scientific methods in this activity. Students will also learn how to communicate the finding in a lab report. Physiology monitoring will include measuring...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Homeostasis

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] When you walk outside on a cool day, does your body temperature drop? No, your body temperature stays stable at around 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Even when the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hot Cans and Cold Cans

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students apply the concepts of conduction, convection, and radiation as they work in teams to solve two problems. One problem requires that they maintain the warm temperature of one soda can filled with water at approximately body...
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California Institute of Technology

Infrared Zoo Lesson 3: The Invisible Zoo

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How do biologists and zoologists use infrared technology to learn how warm and cold-blooded animals thermoregulate their internal body temperature? Have your students explore this phenomenon using this great lesson plan.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Math: Measurement

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find a variety of worksheets, booklets, conversion charts, warm-up activities and more on measurements. There is even one activity that could be used in a French language class which...
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Other

Ornithology: Metabolism and Thermoregulation

For Students 9th - 10th
A good site that discusses the rate at which a bird's metabolism functions and its effect on the body temperature of the animal.

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