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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 »
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- 5th - 8th
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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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students explore the endocrine disruption theory. They work in groups to research and develop a persuasive oral argument to support one side of the endocrine disruption theory. Students engage in debate and other activities to analyze the chemical controversy. Full Review »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »
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- 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 »