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Explore Rx Quiz
In this exploring prescriptions instructional activity, students answer 6 multiple choice questions related to diseases, medicine, the human body and poisonous plants. Students use an on line web site that gives them an immediate score.
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Bird Brained
Students examine bird anatomy and explain bird intelligence. In this animal behavior lesson students research the Internet on bird behavior and work in groups to complete a challenge.
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No Pain, No Brain!
Learners complete a variety of activities related to the /ai/ digraph. As a class they recite a tongue twister, then spell different words containing the /ai/ digraph using letter manipulatives. Students listen to the book "The Long Long...
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The Brain and the Sense Organs - Lesson Plan
Young scholars identify the five sense organs and state the uses of the five senses.
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Brain Booster: Telling Time to the Hour and Half Hour
In this daily math problem instructional activity, students complete three activities that help them tell time to the hour and half hour. Students show their work using pictures, numbers, or words and may use cubes, number lines or...
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Brain Booster: Addition with Regrouping
In this daily math problem worksheet, students complete three activities that help them solve problems using addition with regrouping. Students show their work using pictures, numbers, or words and may use cubes, number lines or hundred...
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Brain Boosters: Valentine's Day Math
In this problem solving worksheet, students are given two Valentine story problems to solve. Each problem has a place to show your work. Students must use different operations to solve the problems.
Is it Even or Odd?
Brain Boosters: Daily Word Problem
Your youngsters will be able to determine whether the solution to the problem is even or odd by counting the number of cubes shown.
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Puzzles and Brain Teasers
In this puzzle learning exercise, students draw the given picture using one continuous line without crossing a line or taking their pencil off the paper.
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Tree Brains
Seventh graders use a tree as a graphic organizer for a prewriting strategy. Some of the "trees" are used to create verbal paragraphs for practice.
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Women's Brains
Students experience an example of bias in science dealing with women and gender.
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Nervous System
In this biology learning exercise, students find the words in the puzzle related to the nervous system. The answers are found by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.
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Hormone Secretions from the Nervous System
In this health worksheet, students find the words that are consistent with the hormone secretions of the nervous system and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Controlling the Body Machine
In this nervous system worksheet, learners review the parts of the body that make up the nervous system and how this body system works. This worksheet has 5 fill in the blank, 5 matching, 3 multiple choice, 5 true or false, and 3 short...
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Puppet on a String: An Engaging Look at Movement
Pupils examine how muscles can work together with joints. In this movement lesson students use a marionette to observe how muscles work.
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Brain Power
In this math word problem worksheet, learners solve 4 problems that require them to use their addition, subtraction, and multiplication skills.
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Letter Puzzles
For this letter puzzle worksheet, students solve 2 puzzles given a list of letters. Students determine the relationship between the set of letters.
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Cocaine in the Brain
Students examine the effects of cocaine and heroin and withdrawal symptoms. In this drug instructional activity students participate in an activity that illustrates cocaine's actions.
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Stories of Painkiller Addiction: Contemplating Nature vs. Nurture
Does having an addict in your family make it more likely to become one yourself? Explore the genetic risk factors, as well as the prominent environmental influences, for substance addiction in a lesson that encourages awareness and open...
University of Minnesota
Homeostasis of Thermoregulation
Whether you're battling the flu or trying to warm up on a chilly day, your body's ability to react to temperature change is fascinating! Anatomy scholars discover the fantastic feedback loops that control body temperature in a rigorous...
University of Minnesota
What's the Deal? Addiction Card Game
Addiction is a big deal! Playing a game of cards helps learners understand the concept of addiction. Through their analysis, they examine the potential for addiction and how it varies for each individual.
Teach Engineering
Processes on Complex Networks
Introduces your class to random processes in networks with an activity that uses information about disease spread using the susceptible, infectious, resistant (SIR) model. Participants determine whether a susceptible person becomes...
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Word Connections
Students explore the science of word associations. They take a memory quiz, read articles on how the brain processes language, explore the concept of false memories and create and illustrate their own original word associations.
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Draw What You Feel in the Bag: Art Game
Here is a great game to play on a rainy day or as a warm up. Kids feel an object in a paper bag, they do not attempt to identify it, they simply draw what they feel. This results in a contour drawing based on line, feeling, and texture....