Curated OER
Kids Health: About Kids Health
This page for the huge KidsHealth site gives you a jumping-off point and an overview of the site's content, purpose, and usage. With sections for parents, kids, and teens, KidsHealth has been online since 1995 and today it is accessed...
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Browsing Biochemistry
Here you can learn about biochemistry, the chemistry of the living world. Content explores carbohydrates, lipids, amino acid structure and proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, and metabolism.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Cellular Respiration
Web-based activity provides an opportunity for students to study cellular respiration in an up-close and personal way. By following atoms and molecules through an interactive animation, they will be able to see the changes that take...
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Calorie Calculator
Use this interactive calorie calculator to determine what your optimal daily caloric intake is according to your activity level and body type.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 7.3 Metabolic Reactions Teacher Professional Development Overview
This four-day professional development session introduces teachers to the OpenSciEd materials generally in addition to the 7.3 Metabolic Reactions unit.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: Unit 7.3 Metabolic Reactions
This unit on metabolic reactions in the human body starts out with students exploring a real case study of a middle-school girl named M'Kenna, who reported some alarming symptoms to her doctor.
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 7.3 Metabolic Reactions
This Metabolic Reactions unit has students investigating what happens to food after we eat, and how it affects the body.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Energy and Metabolism
Discover what you know about energy and metabolism by taking this post test.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Energy and Metabolism
Discover what you know about energy and metabolism by taking this pre test.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Digestive System Game
Test your knowledge of the human digestive system with this interactive labeling exercise.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Fisiologia Celular 2 Bachillerato
This unit deals with metabolism: catabolism and anabolism. It contains 19 interactive activities.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: La Dinamica De Los Ecosistemas
This unit shows how ecosystems change over time and how matter and energy, which are essential to its operation, are transformed and passed from one living thing to another forming, in some cases, authentic cycles. It contains 19...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Is a Calorie?
Emma Bryce explains how a few different factors should go into determining the recommended amount of calories for each person. [4:12]
Other
My Science Box: Is It Alive?
A lesson plan that introduces middle schoolers to the concept of classifying objects as either living or non-living. From this lesson, students begin to think about the necessary characteristics of life.
Chem4kids
Chem4 Kids: Metabolism
Understand the science of metabolism with this simplified definition.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Metabolism and Replication
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How organisms get energy and replicate.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Metabolism
How the human metabolism works and health problems that can develop are explained in clear language.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Carbohydrates
You'll be introduced to carbohydrates in this Clinical Chemistry Carbohydrate Game.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Graves' Disease
This site from the MayoClinic.com provides a great overview of the form of hyperthyroidism known as Graves' disease. The sections in the article include signs and symptoms, causes, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and self-care.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Digestive System Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over the human digestive system, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Examples of Chemistry in Everyday Life
Gives examples of chemical interactions occurring in the human body, in the world around us, in foods, and in products we use.
Bryn Mawr College
Serendip: Is Yeast Alive?
Brief text summary of what students learn in the Is Yeast Alive? Lab, along with links to download Student Handouts and Teacher Preparation Notes in PDF or Word formats. Characteristics of life are addressed and metabolism and the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Trip Along the Alimentary Canal
Students will prepare a digital presentation on the digestive organs, accessory structures, processes, digestive chemicals, and nutrients. This is a part of the unit on digestion and metabolism, and is performed at the beginning of the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Quiz: How Did Life Begin and Change
A five question quiz over the concepts about the beginning of life on Earth. Test your knowledge of this topics.