Climate Literacy
Clean: Climate Feedback Loops
This is the seventh of nine lessons from a student learning module called "Visualizing and Understanding the Science of Climate Change." This lesson addresses climate feedback loops and how these loops help drive and regulate Earth's...
King's Centre for Visualization in Science
Explaining Climate Change: Lesson 7: Climate Feedback Loops
This is the seventh lesson in a series of learning modules on the topic of climate change. In this lesson, you will learn how several important feedback loops help drive and regulate earth's unique climate system and affect climate...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Feedback Loops: How Nature Gets Its Rhythms
Anje-Margriet Neutel describes some common positive and negative feedback loops, examining how an ecosystem's many loops come together to make its 'trademark sound.' [5:11]
BioMan Biology
Bio Man Biology: Endocrine Ed
Game on vocabulary and functions of the endocrine system. Covers hormones, feedback loops, adrenaline, melatonin, insulin, glucagon, and growth hormone. Includes multiple-choice quiz at end.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Hormone Regulation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online tutorial students will learn to describe feedback mechanisms that regulate hormone secretion.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Hormone Regulation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how feedback mechanisms regulate hormone secretion.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Design Steps 5 and 6: Create and Test a Prototype
Students learn about the importance of creating and testing prototypes during the engineering design process. They start by building prototypes, which is a special type of model used to test new design ideas. Students gain experience...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Homeostasis
This section of a textbook provides information regarding human homeostasis, a process that has the body continuously monitor its internal conditions. Includes a linked video.
Globe
The Globe Program: Learning to Benefit the Environment
The GLOBE program is a worldwide network of students and scientists working together to monitor Earth's atmosphere and water. There are lots of resources here, and you can email a student involved in the program to learn more about GLOBE.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: The Mystery of Chronic Pain
We think of pain as a symptom, but there are cases where the nervous system develops feedback loops and pain becomes a terrifying disease in itself. Starting with the story of a girl whose sprained wrist turned into a nightmare, Elliot...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Animation for Grades 6 12
Young scholars will create an animation to represent one of the many feedback loops that influences climate change. To create their animation, students will use clay, cut paper, whiteboard or other materials commonly found in the...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Hormones
Students will find out about the three major classes of hormones on the basis of chemical structure, and learn the role they play in human physiology.
Morning Earth
Morning Earth: All Lives Seek Balance: Introduction to Homeostasis
Scholars explore the Biology concept of homeostasis. The tutorial consists of definitions, examples, and pictures. Topics include homeostasis in organisms, how they work, and the internal environment.
Frontiers Media
Frontiers: Brain Machine Interfaces: Your Brain in Action
Brain-machine interfaces (BMI), or brain-computer interfaces (BCI), is an exciting multidisciplinary field that has grown tremendously during the last decade. In a nutshell, BMI is about transforming thought into action and sensation...
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Homeostasis and Regulation in the Human Body
This article helps students identify the process by which body systems are regulated so that they remain stable.