Worksheet
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Nervous System and Senses

For Students 6th - 8th
In this health worksheet, students complete the crossword puzzle based upon the theme of the nervous system and its interaction with the senses.
Lesson Plan
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Your Five Senses

For Teachers K - 12th
Students identify the five senses. In this biology lesson, students participate in an experiment and use their five senses to identify various substances.
Lesson Plan
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Earthworm Nervous System

For Teachers K - 5th
Investigate the nervous system of an earthworm! Your class gets into pairs to test, record, and draw conclusions about the reaction earthworms have to different stimuli (sound, light, and smell).
Lesson Plan
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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students identify structures of the brain, and neurons and analyze their functions.  In this nervous system lesson students create drawings and models of anatomy.
Lesson Plan
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The Sense of Hearing

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the cycle of how we listen and hear our own speech. They examine sound waves, and the role of the nervous system in hearing. They investigate the cues besides lipreading that deaf people rely on for comprehension.
Unit Plan
Core Knowledge Foundation

The Human Body—Systems and Senses Tell It Again!™ Read-Aloud Anthology

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Nine lessons over three weeks explore the human body through read-alouds. Third graders listen to and discuss a reading followed by extension activities, including word work and comprehension practice. Learners draft a narrative essay.
Worksheet
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The Nervous System and the Effects of Drugs

For Students 5th - 12th
In this nervous system instructional activity, students read information about how the body receives and sends out information through the peripheral nervous system and central nervous system. Then students complete 3 short answer...
Lesson Plan
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My Five Senses

For Teachers K - 1st
Students investigate the five senses. For this senses lesson, students explore the nervous system. Students examine how the body receives information through the five senses.
Worksheet
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Review for Strand 2A Test: Nervous System

For Students 9th - 12th
Three pages containing 51 true and false questions make up this nervous system review. The major topics listed at the top of the test mention a film strip and a laboratory activity, but the questions appear to be answerable without...
Interactive
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The Nervous System

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this online interactive nervous system instructional activity, students respond to 11 multiple choice and fill in the blank questions regarding the information included in the provided paragraphs.
Lesson Plan
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TE Lesson: Can You Taste It?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students investigate how animals adapt to use its senses to identify foods that are nutritious or noxious. They determine how they associate foods with other things such as birthdays. They discuss the role of the nervous system in the...
Lesson Plan
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Drawing Upon Our Five Senses

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders identify the parts and functions of the body's five senses. In this biology lesson, 5th graders create a replica of the nervous system highlighting its parts. They create a scrapbook containing information on the senses...
Lesson Plan
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Nervous System: Our Sense of Self

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students analyze the effects of damage to the nervous system by examining four fictitious patient cases. They discuss one case together and then individually write essays about the remaining cases
Worksheet
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Health-Nervous System Review

For Students 7th - 9th
In this nervous system worksheet, students are given seventeen clues about structures of the nervous system and they put their answers in a crossword puzzle.
Worksheet
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The Nervous System and the Effects of Drugs

For Students 6th - 7th
In this senses worksheet, students use webbed information to answer several questions. Students read about each one of the five human senses in order to demonstrate an understanding of the material.
Lesson Plan
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THE LAUGHING BRAIN 2: A GOOD LAUGH

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore various theories about laughter, laughter's effects on our mental health, and the benefits of laughter to our immune system.
Lesson Plan
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Nerve Racking

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the components and function of the nervous system. They investigate how engineers design biomedical equipment to assist the nervous system and explain how the five senses are affected during spaceflight.
Lesson Plan
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Future Body

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explain the benefits of cyborg augmentation. In this technology lesson, students research how the nervous system works. They create posters and present them to class.
Lesson Plan
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The Human Body

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders explore the basic body systems and design a commercial advertising one of them. They also create a body systems handbook.
Lesson Plan
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Hand Sensitivity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students experiment with the sense of touch. In this tactile lesson plan, students determine the most sensitive area of the hand. Students experiment by describing objects through touch only. Students compare the amount of sensory data...
Lesson Plan
University of Minnesota

Caeno-WHAT??

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Can you feel that? Can you smell that? Since pupils can't ask worms about their sense of smell and touch, they design and complete an experiment to answer these questions. Individuals expose nematodes to different stimuli using their...
Lesson Plan
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TE Activity: Sound Line

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners investigate the decibel readings of various noises. They determine why high-level readings damage hearing. Students arrange sound from the lowest to highest decibel levels when they written on a piece of paper.
Lesson Plan
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Freddie Feels

For Teachers K
Students become aware of the sense of touch and the body parts effected by touching.  In this five senses instructional activity, students touch mystery items and create a touch page.  Students discuss the body parts connected...
Worksheet
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Coordination

For Students 9th - 12th
Multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and matching questions are all here in a multi-page worksheet or quiz. While the formatting leaves a little to be desired, it would take just a few minutes to change the handout into a...