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Students analyze how the body senses a temperature change. In this neurobiology lesson plan, students participate in experiments with water to determine how a body reacts to a temperature change.
Students demonstrate the role that their brain plays in everyday life. In this brain lesson, students participate in "mirror drawing" and observe how their brain adapts to new information.
In this nervous system instructional activity, students identify 2 ways that a computer and brain, a telephone wire and the spinal cord and a camera and an eye are similar and different.
An incredible series of lessons on the human body is here for you! Young scientists explore various websites, construct a skeleton using macaroni, compare/contrast a frog skeleton to a human skeleton, label the main parts of the human body, and create a clay model heart. Wow! What a lesson!
Using an article about the toxicity of uranium exposure, learners discuss how the precautionary principle relates to epidemiologic studies. They analyze exposure data displayed in graphs and write descriptions of the results. You will need to track the article down online since the link does not take you to it. A four-page worksheet is provided which includes background information, diagrams, data tables, and a series of questions to answer.
Students examine how to read scientific articles critically. In this critical thinking lesson plan students answer questions and summarize the concept on an article.
Help your class understand Autism. They conduct research into how the brain is effected by the disorder of autism. Then they write a letter to the Center For Disease Control about their findings and forward some of the new research to them.
After listening to your lecture while wearing earplugs, give high schoolers a pop quiz. Have them remove earplugs, grade the quizzes, and then discuss how different life would be with limited hearing ability. Pupils review how waves work, and then participate in a jigsaw to teach each other how hearing occurs. This 18-page resource does not include the overhead transparency mentioned, but it provides a tremendous amount of material for studying hearing with your health, biology, or physics classes.
Tenth graders examine the nervous system and how it functions. In this nerve impulse lesson students explain how neurons transmit and the functions of the brain.
Students research computer information and use it to find the mean of things. In this computer skills lesson students are given activities in which they calculate and use a spreadsheet to enter data on the mean of their assignment.