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Online Conversion

For Students 9th - 10th
Conversion calculators galore! Convert just about anything from one measureable unit into another measureable unit here with over two dozen calculators. Each of the links is specific to a measureable quantity. Some examples include...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hot or Not

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity explains what a fever is and how the immune system uses it to try and protect the body against germs. The students then explore temperature further by creating a model of a thermometer and completing a temperature...
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Monitoring Physiological Changes: Scientific Basis of Fertility Awareness

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all you can with this guide to fertility awareness. Clear explanations regarding male and female physiology and how it is related to fertility. Discover the best times to become pregnant or to avoid it. Links to other pregnancy and...
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Colorado State University

Metric Numbers to Remember

For Students 9th - 10th
Look to this site for many important numbers and conversion factors used between the metric system and the customary system, such as speed of light, body temperature, distance from sun to earth, plus more.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Superhumans & Bionics: Mind Over Machine

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Investigate a unique project that uses brain waves to operate machines, and perform biofeedback experiments to control physiological processes. Control hiccups and regulate your body temperature with your mind.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Heat Convection

For Students 9th - 10th
Using understandable words and exceptional graphics, this page describes the transfer of energy by means of the convection process. Contains several links to related topics.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: A Kids Guide to Fever

For Students 3rd - 9th
Get the facts on what causes a fever and how you get rid of it in this article written for kids.
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Climate and Weather Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A weather unit designed to help the pupils examine 3 factors to determine weather and climate: latitude, elevation, and nearness to large bodies of water.
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Curated OER

Smithsonian Institution Archives: Lillian Mary Moore (1887 1929)

For Students 9th - 10th
Lillian Mary Moore (1887-1929) earned her Ph.D. from the department of physiology at the University of California, and then taught there from 1923 to 1929. Moore's research focused on regulation of body temperature
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University of Washington

Neuroscience for Kids: Biological Rhythms

For Students 9th - 10th
Site contains experiments students can do in the classroom to enhance their understanding of biological rhythms.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: What's Covering You? And Why

For Teachers 4th - 8th
This lesson plan features activities that investigate four functions of skin.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Heat Exhaustion and Heatstroke

For Students 9th - 10th
What are the signs and symptoms of heat exhaustion and heatstroke? Learn the answer to this question and learn about emergency treatment in case of heat exhaustion or heatstroke.
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Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Feeling Your Way and Knowing by Touch

For Students 9th - 10th
You can perceive things by touching, tasting, smelling, listening and seeing. The sensory system that allows us to "feel" is called somatosensation (so-MAT-o-sen-sa-shun). Somatosensation is a broadly defined perceptual system that...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is Energy? Short Demos

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Three short, hands-on, in-class demos expand students' understand of energy. First, using peanuts and heat, students see how the human body burns food to make energy. Then, students create paper snake mobiles to explore how heat energy...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Winter Monsoon in India, 1910

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1910 of the Indian subcontinent and the Central Asia region showing the typical rainfall distribution patterns during the winter monsoons, keyed to show areas of rainfall ranging from very light to heavy rainfall. The map...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Summer Monsoon in India, 1910

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1910 of the Indian subcontinent and the Central Asia region showing the typical rainfall distribution patterns during the summer monsoons, keyed to show areas of rainfall ranging from very light to, according to this text, the...

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