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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses
Students identify structures of the brain, and neurons and analyze their functions. In this nervous system instructional activity students create drawings and models of anatomy.
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The Human Skeletal System: Inside and Out
Students study bone size, structure and shape. They use various geometrical shapes to make a skeleton and produce a poster depicting the skeletal system and its functions. They arrange the pictures into the five sections, glue on...
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Review of the Five Senses
Young scholars investigate the five senses. In this human biology instructional activity, students are given five items and identify which items match best with each of the senses. Young scholars use objects such as a rock, hard candy,...
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Can You Name Parts of the Body?
Students share what they know about the human heart. In this early anatomy instructional activity, students discuss the location, shape, and importance of the human heart.
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Bones and Muscles
Third graders are introduced to bones as the body's means of support and protection. They research bone facts and conduct an experiment with chicken bones. They identify and observe involuntary muscles at work.
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Super Science Sleuths Explain It All: Circumnavigating the Circulatory System
Middle schoolers access prior knowledge of the circulatory system. In this circulatory system lesson, students participate in experiments related to the circulatory system and film for a podcast. Middle schoolers work in pairs to...
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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses
Students record observations and create drawings and models of anatomy using their five senses. They describe the structures of a neuron and analyze each of their functions. They compare and contrast the typical structural features of a...
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Show 303: New Research into Dyslexia
Students explore the causes of dyslexia. They view CT sans and MRIs to view the brain and how it responds. Students read reports about dyslexia. They discuss the nature of dyslexia, its cause, how to diagnose it, and its permanency.
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Five Senses - Learning With The Senses
Students name the five senses, compare learning with and without the senses.