Scholastic
Study Jams! The Senses: Smelling
It makes sense to sniff out a good lesson on the sense of smell. Here is a six-slide presentation that can be a strong component to that lesson! With photographs and expository graphics, life scientists find that smell is the detection...
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Snot: NC Summer Tour Lesson 2007
Young scholars study various aspects of mucous. In this mucous lesson, students investigate the purpose of mucous. Young scholars create fake mucous.
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Antigens versus Antibodies "KO'd in Round Three" The Third Line of Defense of the Human Immune System
Seventh graders investigate antibodies, as the body's third line of defense against disease. They discover why antibodies do not defend the body against viruses and create a pantomime of the antibody/antigen/HIV relationship.
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The Innate Immune System
My body is my castle. Pupils learn about the innate immune system in the second lesson plan of a three-part unit on the immune system by comparing the innate immune system to a castle and moat. Groups conduct a simulation where they try...
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Integumentary System
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to integumentary system of the body. There are 27 biology terms located in the word search.
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Immune, Lymphatic System
A fantastic slideshow that has images, details, definitions and trivia to accompany each structure and response involved with the immune system. The slides are very useful for all levels of the immune response. A complete sets of notes...
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Tissues
Complete with teachers' notes for most of the slides, this is a tremendous presentation of the four types of tissues: epithelial, connective, nerve, and muscle. Each is displayed with pertinent vocabulary and photos of microscope slides...
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Fighting Infection
Students study immune responses and the structures that are related to immune cells functions. For this fighting infection lesson students construct antibody complexes and model the interaction of the immune system when it is fighting...
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Eat Your Flowers
Students grow flowers in different soil mediums to determine the effect on flavor. In this investigative lesson students study flowers, plant them and taste them to see how they differ in different potting soils.
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Swinging Electrons
Students illustrate paramagnetic and diamagnetic differences due to the unfilled and filled valence shells. They prepare saturated solutions and place into test tubes.