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Body Systems in Action

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders, in groups, create a short skit that shows how body systems work together.
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Stem Cell Differentiation Game

For Teachers 7th - 10th
This carad activity helps students explore detailed facts and scientific procedures around the human body and its cells. In this stem cell lesson, students utilize different colored flash cards to represent different types of human...
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Curated OER

Systems of the Human Body

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students play an interactive activity and answer questions about body systems.
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University of Minnesota

Virtual Neurons

For Teachers 5th - 12th
It's electric! Young anatomists use Virtual Neurons software to build, control, and analyze complex nerve circuits within the body. Colorful and packed with content, class members enjoy interacting with the nervous system...
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Remembering the Respiratory System

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders analyze the components of the respiratory system. In this respiratory system lesson, 6th graders participate in hands on experiments and activities to identify the functions of the major organs of the respiratory system.
Interactive
Concord Consortium

3D Exploration of Bound Antibody and Antigen

For Students 9th - 12th Standards
Our body manufactures antibodies that are the exact shape for the antigens it encounters. The simulation shows a 3-D model of an antibody and antigen pairing. It allows young scientists to explore the complementary shapes.
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Curated OER

Building a Circulation City

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Young scholars examine how the workings of the human circulatory system were discovered.  In this circulation lesson students view a  video, divide into groups and act out their given system. 
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Creative Dramatics

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice simple addition through the use of creative dramatics. In this creative dramatics activity, students work in groups to form human configurations that allow a certain number of points to be touching the floor. They work...
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Curated OER

Dissecting Squid

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore biology by dissecting an animal. For this squid anatomy lesson, 2nd graders collaborate in pairs to investigate the inner body systems of a recently deceased squid. Students utilize plastic knives to cut the squid...
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Curated OER

Season's Greetings

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore Earth's seasons using an interactive website. In this earth science lesson, students watch video segments and explain Earth's seasonal milestones. They discuss the factors that causes seasonal changes.
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California Academy of Science

Kinesthetic Astronomy: The Meaning of a Year

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How many times have you traveled around the sun? Aspiring astronomers grasp what a year is and they differentiate between orbit and rotation by walking around the sun right within your classroom. Place a lamp in the center of the room to...
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Curated OER

Solve the Case!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discover the habits of panthers by solving fictitious crime mysteries.  In this animal life lesson, students utilize their research from previous lessons to solve mysteries in a panther activity.  Students answer...
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California Academy of Science

Kinesthetic Astronomy: Mars Opposition Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Your class will watch as one child orbits the sun as Earth, while another orbits as Mars. If the timing is right, they will see the repetitive dance between the two planets and discover how often they are opposite from each other. For...
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Modeling the Seasons

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Junior geologists become the force that makes the world go around! With a lamp on the floor in the middle of the room to represent the sun, volunteers hold a globe, revolve, and rotate. Observers notice how the light hitting the globe...
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My Habitat Address

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders draw a habitat and write about what they would need to survive in the habitat. They define the input of items such as materials, energy, and information, and what goes out of the habitat. They play a "Habitat Address" game,...
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Nutrition in Me!

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explain the basic healthy eating and physical activity concepts.  In this healthy lifestyles lesson, 3rd graders describe two main components of a healthy lifestyle, demonstrate two different types of physical...
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Curated OER

Explore the Characteristics of Stars with Microsoft WorldWide Telescope

For Teachers 2nd - 9th
Students explore the characteristics of stars. In this space science activity, students use the Microsoft WorldWide Telescope program to identify the properties of stars and identify the stars in the galaxy.
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Curated OER

The Party: Friend or Enemy of Democracy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students recognize and appreciate the paradox between an MP being able to vote according to the wishes of their constituents and / or their conscience versus voting according to party line. The class conducts a simulated vote.

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