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Walking Willie

For Teachers K - 5th
Students walk for a timed amount over a measured course and receive a paper marker for each 'lap' they complete. At the end of the time period the entire class counts off the total of their markers to determine how many miles have been...
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Food and Food Groups

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders research the importance of diet and its relationship to disease. They examine their own attitudes about the foods they eat.
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Digestive System

For Students 7th - 9th
In this digestive system worksheet, students answer a list of true/ false questions. The students answer questions based on their knowledge of each process of the digestive system.
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Physical Adaptations in Ice Age Mammals

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students identify the body parts in Ice Age mammals that allowed them to survive. They answer questions as a class and discuss. They examine photographs of the animals as well.
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Build-A-Horseshoe Crab

For Teachers K - 6th
Students discover many facts about horseshoe crabs. Students identify the main body parts of horseshoe crab. They explore the habits of the horseshoe crab and their importances to the ecosystem. Adaptations for younger students are...
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Animal Adaptations

For Teachers 4th
students in groups to work on bulletin board, making a list of animal adaptations. They write an example of each body covering and find pictures of animals with these coverings. They mount pictures and label the covering. They should be...
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Applied Science - Science and Math Pre Lab

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore human senses. In this applied Science lesson, students utilize their senses to distinguish various objects. Students explain their descriptions.
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Engineering and the Senses: Hearing

For Teachers K
Students explore the sense of hearing. In this 5 senses lesson, students consider how humans and animals use the sense of hearing along with their other senses. Students discuss the body parts responsible for the 5 senses and...
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Compound Sentence

For Students 6th - 10th
In this sentence structure worksheet, students review a definition and examples of compound sentences prior to responding to 10 questions that require them to label the parts of compound sentences.
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Biomechanics of Joints

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine the range of motion of your knee, wrist and shoulder and observe that these body parts act like different types of mechanical joints.
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How Alzheimer's Affects the Brain

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners study how Alzheimer's affects different parts of the brain, sketch a healthy neuron and its parts, and diagram brain changes during the early and late stages of Alzheimer's.
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Respiratory System

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students analyze the function of the lungs. In this lesson about the Respiratory System, students explore breathing and the movement of air through the lungs. Students perform an 4 part experiment to observe what it might look like for...
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Bible: Mayan Gods

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students discover beliefs and practices of the Mayans.  In this Mayan gods lesson, students discuss "The World Tree" of the Mayans, the three layers of the tree, and their meanings.  Students discover the manner and purpose of...
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Hidden Hibernators

For Teachers K - 8th
Young scholars review the concept of hibernation and the animals that sleep during all or part of the winter. They complete the Hibernation Word Search Puzzle to name 16 animals that hibernate during the winter months.
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Honey Bee Biology

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students review the basic parts of an insect and explore the anatomical characteristics of a honey bee. The second part of the lesson focuses on ways to identify a honey bee from other stinging insects.
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Totally Cellular

For Students 7th - 10th
For this biology worksheet, students learn about cells and their various parts. They first read a page and a half of facts about cells and then answer the 10 questions in the packet. The answers are on the last page.
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Go Jump In The Lake!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners experiment with local lake water to determine the health of the lake waters. They explore the human impact on the lake water, hypothesize and share inferences in a scientific report.
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Vertebrate Skeletons

For Students 6th - 8th
In this biology learning exercise, students examine the human skeleton and then classify animal bones according to their similar function.
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Making a Model Lung

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils explain the parts of the body that are involved in breathing and explore lung function.  In this model lung lesson students make a model of a lung then interpret and explain it. 
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Starvation in the Ghettos

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students investigate how human beings survive under camp and ghetto life's extreme condition while understanding the USRDA requirements. They recognize the suffering and loss of life due to the lack of adequate nutrition.
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Explore! Fun with Science

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Students explore the challenges of living in space by designing a facility that can provide everything required to support humans and can protect them from the harsh environment of space.
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Robots

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play the parts of robots and their controllers. In this robot lesson plan, students learn about robots, and use verbal commands to simulate how a robot would command to it's controller.
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Introducing Models to Elementary School Students

For Teachers K - 8th
Students explore the concept of models. In this model activity, students examine 3-dimensional models of various objects and body parts to better understand the natural world.
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Anatomy of the Heart

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders examine the different parts of the heart. In this biology lesson, 10th graders perform dissection of the fetal pig. They explain how the heart maintains homeostasis.

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