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- 6th - 8th
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Students investigate how the human body self-regulates to maintain a stable internal environment despite changes in the external environment -- a process called homeostasis. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students create a list of signs the human body gives during threatening weather conditions. They investigate the causes and conditions of dehydration, overheating, and hypothermia. Full Review »
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- 10th - 12th
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Students investigate the structure and function of the excretory system of the human body. Breathing, sweating, and urinating are explored as important components of the system. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 8th
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Students assess the factors affecting animal populations. Working in groups they define specific vocabulary terms and complete several activities from "Project Wild." Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students evaluate their choices for foods and exercise, correlate eating and exercise choices with maintaining long-term health and preventing disease. They recognize the relationship between daily diet and maintaining homeostasis. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students participate in a lab that demonstrate one example of how the human body maintains homeostasis. Students collect data from themselves and observe how their own bodies react to exercise. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students investigate the concepts of homeostasis, competition, pathogens, and antiseptics. They conduct an experiment that compares the antiseptic properties of native plants by growing bacteria on agar plates containing plant extracts, and create and analyze a graph of the results. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students navigate and analyze information about the presentation of a disease during a class discussion. They document and share their analysis of information in a class discussion in order to describe a variety of disease origins. Full Review »
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- 7th - 11th
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Students explore homeostasis and identify it in work in an organism. They brainstorm things that stay the same and participate in several demonstrations that illustrate homeostasis. Students predict baseline breathing and jumping jacks Full Review »
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- 6th - 10th
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Students explore how the human body maintains a stable internal condition as the immune system fights off an infection. They measure and compare their own body temperature to the average class temperature then view a Quicktime video that describes the function of fever. Full Review »

