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PACER Center

The Peer Advocacy Guide

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Teasing, mocking, and disrespect can be the hallmarks in the life of those with disabilities. Disrupt the cycle of abuse with a toolkit designed to turn peers into advocates for all those who are bullied. Everything needed to create a...
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Curated OER

What's Up, Doc?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore cardiovascular fitness and create and follow a fitness program. They document the benefits of participating in a fitness program.
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Curated OER

How Animals Prepare for the Winter

For Teachers K
Students study animals. In this hibernation lesson, students are read Stranger in the Woods and they discuss what various animals do in their habitat during the winter. They work as a class to create their own hibernation environment...
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Curated OER

Sheep Brain Dissection

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students study the brain and examine what the functions of the major functions are.  In this investigative lesson plan students dissect a sheep's brain and note the similarities and differences between it and a humans brain. 
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Curated OER

Picture Fists Full of Kisses

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Ease children's back-to-school jitters with this primary grade lesson based on the book The Kissing Hand by Ruth E. Harper. Starting off with a singing of the song "I Wish I Had a Little Red Box", children go on to discuss and...
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Curated OER

Tap Your Feet

For Teachers K - 1st
Pupils access a website to examine how to follow a pattern. They find their own heartbeats and tap along with the beat. They access a second website to design a class composition before showing how they keep the beat. They use...
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Curated OER

River Study

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore a stream in their area and show the class the topographic map of the stream. They locate the topographic map and name the streams, lakes and ponds in their watershed. They write a paragraph about their stream and...
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Curated OER

Urbanization in the Amazon Basin: Can Indigenous People Survive?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the relationship between economic development and social change of indigenous peoples.
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Curated OER

River Study

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study physical features of a local stream. They study how to identify water features on topographic maps.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Heart Rate Recovery Times

For Students 9th - 10th
After exercise, your heart rate increases, this is normal for everyone. However this experiment asks whether the recovery time for a heart's beating rate is faster for people who get regular exercise versus those that do not.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Caffeine and Heart Rate: A Pharmacological Study Using Daphnia

For Students 9th - 10th
In this project, water fleas (Daphnia magna), a semi-transparent freshwater crustacean, are used to study the effects of caffeine on heart rate. You do not have to learn how to take a crustacean's pulse though, because you can actually...
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Michigan State University

Michigan State University: Lets Net: Heart Rate

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this experiment, students will compare heart-rates of classmates and family member to draw conclusions about their data. Students can collect data and collaborate with others on the Internet to broaden their sample size. Lesson...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Kids Science Projects and Experiments: Pulse and Heartbeat

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn by experimenting with science. Project about the heartbeat and pulse.
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Other

California State University: Biology Labs Online: Cardio Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive set of virtual experiment assignments where students explore the roles of blood pressure and heart rate in maintaining a balanced cardiovascular system. Includes background information, glossary, online notebook, and...
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Your Beating Heart

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan site, the students will learn about the circulatory system and perform an experiment where they take their pulse after various activities.
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Treehut

Suzy's World: Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out why your heart beats and perform an experiment to see your pulse moving.