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Cooking Lesson

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders taste different flavors on their popcorn. In this taste bud lesson, 4th graders make predictions about taste and dip popcorn into four different flavors. They record how the flavors tasted - sweet, salty, bitter, or sour.
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Why Does My Body Smell?

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate how germs spread among people. In this health lesson, 4th graders discover the causes of infection and proper hygiene methods.
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Worksheet
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Viruses Quiz

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students will test their knowledge of viruses. Students answer ten multiple choice questions pertaining to virus characteristics.
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Worksheet
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Spelling List 18: Sight Words, Polysyllabic "-ing," and Academic Vocabulary

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this spelling list worksheet, students practice spelling words that are sight words, polysyllabic -ing, and vocabulary. Students practice spelling 21 words total.
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Worksheet
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Halloween Scene

For Students 5th - 6th
In this math worksheet, students solve 4 story problems which pertain to Halloween. Students estimate, calculate prices, and convert liquid measures to solve these problems.
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Lesson Plan
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Enzymes in Action: An Inquiry Approach to the Effects of Enzymes

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils experiment with enzymes as key components of chemical reactions in all living things through this series of lessons.
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A Very Simple Conductivity Meter

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct a simple conductivity meter to test the ionic or non-ionic nature of water samples including one from their home.
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Extraction of DNA from White Onion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students conduct lab test with minced onion to determine where chromosonal DNA is located within the cell, and whether or not it can be extracted.
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Immune System Function

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study the different facets of the Human immune system, including the functions of all the different organs in the immune system.
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Introduction to the Digestive System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students describe the digestive system and simulate what happens to food as it passes through. They use an apple, tubing and hydrochloric acid to simulate the digestive process.
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How Can We Extract Human DNA?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers perform an experiment in which they extract DNA samples from hair samples. They follow a set procedure to extract the DNA and complete summary questions.
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Lesson Plan
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Make Sense of Nature

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Worksheet
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Human Body Digestion

For Students 5th - 6th
In this health worksheet, students find the words that related to the concept of digestion. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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The Human Cheek Cell

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students list the parts of cell theory and describe and define vocabulary.  In this cell lesson students complete a handout that includes sketching a cell. 
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Blood, I Presume?

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners explain the value of blood in trials.  In this DNA lesson students work together to collect and share information and ideas that they come up with after learning how to distinguish blood from other stains. 
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What's on Your Plate?

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students demonstrate the path of food in the body. In this biology lesson plan, students conduct an experiment to determine how large the the digestive system is. They name the different organs involved in the digestive process.
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Article
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Kids Health: Your Digestive System

For Students 3rd - 8th
A complete student lesson on the human digestive system. Students can listen to the text being read, watch a video on the subject, and view an interactive diagram of the digestive system. When finished, learners take an online quiz.
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Interactive
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Kids Health: Your Digestive System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to learn about the amazing process of digestion through the digestive system. View great drawings about other parts of the body that aid in this process. Available in Spanish.
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Activity
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Kids Health: Stick Out Your Tongue and Say Aah!

For Students 3rd - 8th
This illustrated tongue tutorial shows that this organ is used for more than just talking (and tongue twisters). Features include Spanish version and links to related human body topics.
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: The Mouth, Pharynx, and Esophagus

For Students 9th - 10th
Describe the structures of the mouth, including its three accessory digestive organs: the mouth, pharynx, and esophagus. Also trace the pathway food follows from ingestion into the mouth through release into the stomach.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Northern Short Tailed Shrew

For Students 4th - 8th
Northern Short-tailed Shrews have poisonous saliva. This enables them to kill mice and larger prey and paralyze invertebrates such as snails and store them alive for later eating. Learn more about the Blarina brevicauda, more commonly...
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Activity
University of Washington

Taste: Activities, Experiments Models and More

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site has an directions for an exercise called "Tasty activities." Tasty Buds is just the first of many cool activities exploring one of the five senses. The grade levels for the activities vary so keep searching for your best fit.
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Article
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Kids Health: What's Mono?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Two-page article relaying the symptoms and transmission of mononucleosis, also known as the "kissing disease." Includes links information on related topics such as fever, headaches, muscles, flu, and strep throat.
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Article
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Kids Health: Meningitis

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn about a highly contagious disease that affects the brain. You will find out who can get meningitis, and how it is treated.

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