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Spinal Cord Cereal

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine how the spinal cord is protected by the vertebrae and how the spine bends by experimenting with licorice and cereal.
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The Nervous System

For Students 8th - 10th
For this nervous system worksheet, students complete a crossword puzzle given 15 clues about the structures of the nervous system such as the brain and spinal cord and the functions of the nervous system.
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Nervous System

For Teachers 5th Standards
Get to know the body's central nervous system through an engaging game of nervous system telephone. But this isn't your average game of telephone. Here, pupils must find a way to communicate a message to the brain without speaking....
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Similar/Different: Nervous System

For Students 5th - 10th
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.
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Brain-Controlled Robotic Arms: Cloze activity with Article

For Students 5th - 9th
Fascinating content about current medical research on brain-controlled prosthetics comes in cloze activity form with a link to the original article. Useful for listening and reading comprehension skills development, and for any science...
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Health-Nervous System Review

For Students 7th - 9th
In this nervous system worksheet, students are given seventeen clues about structures of the nervous system and they put their answers in a crossword puzzle.
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The Nervous System

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students investigate the nervous system.  In this anatomy lesson, students identify and define vocabulary related to the nervous system. Students role play the parts of a nervous system and perform an experiment measuring and comparing...
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Neuroscience for Kids Coloring Book

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this neuroscience instructional activity, learners color in 12 different parts of the nervous system, including the brain, spinal cord, and neurons.
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How Does Your Brain Respond to Pain?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Zap! Ouch! That hurts! But why? And how come people don't experience or respond to pain in the same way? Take a journey on the sensing pathway, from your nociceptors, along your nerves, up your spinal cord, to neurons and glial, through...
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Nerve Racking

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study the components and function of the nervous system. They investigate how engineers design biomedical equipment to assist the nervous system and explain how the five senses are affected during spaceflight.
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The Nervous System

For Students 9th
In this nervous system worksheet, 9th graders define each term listed and then label the figure shown pertaining to the nervous system. Then they name three types of neurons and describe the function of each type.
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Controlling the Body Machine

For Students 9th - 12th
In this nervous system worksheet, students review the parts of the body that make up the nervous system and how this body system works. This worksheet has 5 fill in the blank, 5 matching, 3 multiple choice, 5 true or false, and 3 short...
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Vertebrates and Invertebrates

For Students 4th - 6th
Spine or no spine? Vertebrate or invertebrate? Learners sort and classify a list of animals as vertebrates or invertebrates into a graphic organizer.
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The Nervous System

For Students Higher Ed
In this nervous system worksheet, students review the structure and function of the central nervous system. This worksheet has 1 drawing and 17 fill in the blank statements.
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Close-up of the Nervous System

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Make sure your class gets on your nerves! Learners of all ages practice peering into the nervous system to see what's inside. Groups examine prepared slides of mammalian nervous system tissues, all while gaining microscope skills. The...
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Biological Concepts

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students perform a transection of a redworm. They discuss spinal cord injuries in humans. Students compare the ability of the redworm to regenerate the ventral nerve cord with the inability of humans to repair damage to the dorsal nerve...
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Inside Information

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore two pathways for information through the nervous system. The pathways for involuntary action or reflex and voluntary responses are built and related to the element of choice.
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Endocrine System - Hormones

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Use this attractive PowerPoint to introduce all the hormones and their functions to your students. As students view each slide, they should be able to see the relevance of many of the chemicals and their interaction with the human body....
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Endocrine System: Hormones

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The many images and labeled diagrams in this PowerPoint will help learners understand different areas of the endocrine system. The slide show starts with information about the absorption of lipid and protein based hormones, and then...
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Neuron Cookie

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Find out just how enticing learning about neurons can be by creating models with sugar cookies, icing, and candy. With great background information for you and an easy procedure for the kids, studying cells has never been more fun or...
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Coordination

For Students 9th - 12th
Multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and matching questions are all here in a multi-page worksheet or quiz. While the formatting leaves a little to be desired, it would take just a few minutes to change the handout into a...
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Getting Up the Nerve

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the basics of the nervous system through an interactive program. They discover how the brain is linked to muscle movement. They can test cells through the interactive program to see how it reacts to different stimuli.
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Coping with Changes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers build on knowledge of brain and nervous system in order to write about how their nervous systems help them cope with change in environment. Students navigate online sites to explore different parts of brain and nervous...
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The Effects of "Recreational" Drugs on the Development of Chick Embryos as a Model for Human Embryogenesis

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students conduct experiments on fertilized chicken embryos to determine the possible developmental effects that various recreational drugs (caffeine, alcohol, nicotine, and aspirin) might have on them.

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