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- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students use their imaginations to make their body's protective systems go into action, thereby giving an actual experience of what the Endocrine System can do. They identify body reactions associated with adrenaline. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
- Rating
Students use their imagination to make their body's protective systems go into action, thereby giving an actual experience of what the Endocrine System can do. A teacher guided simulation serves as a springboard for discussion. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students use visualization to experience their own body's adrenaline response to danger. They identify bodily reactions associated with adrenaline and define the endocrine system and its functions. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students use an analogy to the mail delivery system to study the workings of the human endocrine system. They discover the interrelationships between the human body systems while comparing them to engineering communicating with astronauts. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students are divided into a group of hormones and a group of receptors. The hormones have to find their matching receptors, and the pair, once matched, perform a given action. This activity helps students examine the specificity of hormone-receptor interactions within the endocrine system. This lesson clearly illustrates how hormones help to "tell" our bodies what to do. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students use a KWL graphic organizer to stimulate schema and demonstrate their knowledge of the nervous and endocrine systems. They view a movie, "Biologix: The Neuroendocrine System." Students complete a Venn Diagram as a summative evaluation of the lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students discuss the stages of bodily change that they have gone through since birth. They watch a web based video to examine how the endocrine system controls some of the changes associated with being teenagers. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students watch as the teacher lists organ systems and associates one with another. They review prior lessons on the endocrine system. Students use life size body part cut outs and arrange them into a life size cut out of a human body. They listen as the teacher creates a brace chart of the body by organizing the body into its four components, and expanding out. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students practice relating structures and functions of endocrine and reproductive systems and explain how the endocrine system maintains homeostasis. They give examples of negative feedback and locate the glands in student bodies. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th
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Students identify, interpret and relate structures and function of the endocrine system (including hormones and glands). Then they play a game with two teams where a gland is said aloud and the first team to raise their hand and answer correctly with a hormone that is secreted from that gland, scores a point. Full Review »
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