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Tissue Types
In this human tissue worksheet, students read about the 4 different tissue types in the body. Students read 4 pages about the types.
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Body Organization
Seventh graders explore how the body is organized. They create flashcards of key terms and visit stations to view levels of organization in the human body. They examine themselves and rearrange their flashcards in order of increasing...
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Brain Awareness Week
Students explore human anatomy by completing a list of activities over five days. In this brain science lessons, students examine images of brains and identify the different parts. Students complete an in-class quiz regarding brain...
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GED: Vocabulary: Life Science
In this GED vocabulary activity, students complete a crossword puzzle given 10 clues about genetics and cloning, food chains, vaccines, the brain and the nervous system and organisms. Students are given a word bank to use to complete the...
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GED Vocabulary: Life Science
In this life science GED worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle given 9 clues about structures of the nervous system, the circulatory system, evolution, the digestive system, molecules and fossils. Students are given a word bank...
Wiley Publishing
Anatomy and Physiology Workbook
Peruse a workbook for every system in the human body. From cellular makeup to the integumentary system to human reproduction, the 300-page workbook features informative reading passages, guided practice, and humorous comic strips to get...
Discovery Education
Our Brain and Body on Opioids
Use a presentation that explores the world of prescription opioids. Learners look at the way the brain responds to the drugs and the long terms effects opioids have on the brain and body. At the end of the lesson, groups create a social...
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Fishy Behavior
Here's a lab that may make you rethink that morning cup of coffee. Biology scholars test the effects of caffeine, alcohol, and nicotine on the behavior of zebrafish through an intriguing experiment. Learners observe fish behavior before...
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Anatomy
Fourth graders describe how health behaviors affect body systems, and describe the basic function of major body systems.
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Exploring Muscle Action in the Human Body
Students collect and graph data and use the internet to research the skeletal muscles.
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Cranial Nerves
This page consists of a list of the cranial nerves in triplicate. The diagram of the brain that tops each copy of the list is too small for identifying each nerve. Consider giving your avid anatomists one of these lists with a large...
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The Language of Medicine
In this health worksheet, learners locate 50 terms related to the medical field. The words are hidden in a word search and include parts of the body, and various body systems.
Rice University
Biology for AP® Courses
An eight-unit electronic textbook provides a guide to AP® Biology. Each of the 28 chapters include an introduction, multiple lessons, a summary, review questions, and test prep questions. Teachers see how each lesson connects to a big...
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You Have Nerve!
Fourth graders investigate the nervous system and how it communicates messages to and from the brain.
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Neuron Creations
Students examine neurons. In this nervous system activity, students build models of neurons in order to study their parts and functions.
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And The Beat Goes On...!
Middle schoolers explore the circulatory system. They observe a dissection of a heart and view the path that blood takes through the heart and the circulatory system. Students identify the structures and functions of the heart. They...
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Teaching Awareness of Human Development
Students examine the process of human development and identify the reasons for a good nights sleep. Individually, they write a list of the situations in their lives which are stressful. As a class, they discuss myths about stress and...
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The Nervous System
In this nervous system instructional activity, students review the structure and function of the central nervous system. This instructional activity has 1 drawing and 17 fill in the blank statements.
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Signal Transmission in the Nervous System
Students explore signal transmission in the nervous system. They determine the speed of nervous transmission in an integrated nervous system and investigate the differences between signal transmission in a single neuron and in a nervous...
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Brain Awareness Week
Students explore the brain. In this science lesson, students create a model of the brain and discuss steps taken in order to protect the brain. Students design a container that would protect the brain from injury. Students discuss the...
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Nerve Racking
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.
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My Five Senses
Students investigate the five senses. In this senses lesson, students explore the nervous system. Students examine how the body receives information through the five senses.
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Neuroscience for Kids
For this neuroscience worksheet, students explore the Neuroscience for Kids website and then complete the questions. Students compare axons and dendrites, the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous system, and the different lobes of...
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Neural Pictionary
Students explore the nervous system. They pictorially illustrate terms that deal with the nervous system. Students play a "pictionary" game to review nervous system vocabulary words.