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- 3rd - 5th
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Students develop an understanding and appreciation of water purification techniques and their implications for health maintenance. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine some old wives' tales and folk remedies related to health, explore the science behind why people might believe them to be true, and investigate the real scientific causes or reasons for their effects. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine the functions of the kidney. They discover how engineers design instruments to help people with kidney problems. They analyze the role of the dialysis machine in the world today. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students work together filtering different substances through a screen to represent the kidney. They discover the size of the filter is what decides what is filtered out. They examine how engineers design different filters to improve one's way of life. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in a class discussion on the ethical issues faced in the health care industry today. In groups, they develop their own definition of bioethics and role play the role of one of the various types of members of different ethical systems. To end the lesson, they develop the characteristics of their own health care system. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students examine the healthcare system, including insurance, drug prices, and patient rights. Following a field trip to the children's ward of a hospital, they work in groups to analyze various conditions,problems/diseases, presented on index cards. Other facets of the lesson include watching several videos about health care and holding a student debate about adopting a universal health plan. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students participate in a lesson brings together technology and science that is designed for the technology education classroom. It can be taught individually by the technology education teacher or in collaboration with the school library media specialist. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine the functions of the kidney and its place in the urinary system. They discuss how astronauts go the bathroom in space, examine labeled diagrams of the urinary system, and draw a large scale drawing of the excretory system with chalk outside and walk through the drawing and explain how the different parts work. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 5th
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Students investigate how kidneys function. They discuss how a dialysis machine works, and conduct an experiment in which they filter different substances through a plastic window screen, various sizes of hardware cloth, and poultry netting to analyze how the excretory system functions. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students explain the most effective method for cleaning up an oil spill. They examine reasons why an oil spill is devastating to an ecosystem and relate their knowledge of oil spill burning and bio-remediation to the materials used in their experiment. Full Review »
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