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" Where in the World is Your Blood Type?
Students explore a map of the worldwide distribution of blood types and observe the patterns. In this blood type lesson students conduct a lab and determine the geographic distribution of the different blood types and determine a pattern.
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Blood Web Hunt
Fifth graders examine the components of blood. Using internet websites and a handout, 5th graders search for answers to questions about blood. They explore components such as red blood cells, white blood cells, platelet and plasma.
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The Battle of the Guts
Students listen to story, The Magic School Bus: Inside Ralphie, take notes from story on how body fights germs, identify different functions of immune system, and use Kid Pix slide show to explain how body fights viruses and bacteria.
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Donating Blood
Learners examine the facts of blood and discuss the different parts of blood and their function. They discover different people have different blood types and where they can go to donate blood.
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Tag, You're Sick
Students play a game to model how the immune system works. In this health and wellness lesson, the teacher explains how the immune system works, then students play a game of tag trying to stay away from germs, viruses, and bacteria and...
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KARYOTYPE ALTERNATIVES
Young scholars comprehend that karyotyping is a process in which chromosomes are cut from an enlarged picture and arranged in decreasing order of size. The cells to be viewed are first chemically treated to increase the number of...
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Operation Anitbody
Students identify the types of cells that are important in the immune system. They investigate the different mechanisms used by white blood cells as they protect the body from foreign invaders. Students are given five case studies,...
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Highways of Life
Young scholars explore the circulatory system. They participate in media activities to explore blood flow and identify the parts of the circulatory sytem. Students create a model of the circulatory system.
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The Cardiac 100
Young scholars make a full scale diagram. In this heart and blood flow activity, students pretend they must design the cardiac 100 racecourse and they must teach the new blood cells how to get around the heart. Young scholars create a...
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Infection Wars
Students observe blood cells under a microscope and make drawings of their observations. They write and act out a short play starring blood cells, antibodies and bacteria to demonstrate fighting infection.
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Heating and Cooling a Really Large Lizard
Remind your middle school scientists how fox ear size varies depending on the climate they live in; large ears allow heat loss while small ears keep heat in. Discuss how a cold-blooded animal might try to regulate body temperature. Then...
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Making Blood
Fifth graders review what they have already gathered about human blood. After reviewing the components of blood, they work together to make their own. Using the internet, they complete a blood web hunt and share their discoveries with...
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Fighting Infection
Middle schoolers study immune responses and the structures that are related to immune cells functions. For this fighting infection lesson students construct antibody complexes and model the interaction of the immune system when it is...
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Pre-Hardy-Weinberg
Students examine the inheritance of ABO blood groups. In this investigative lesson students perform a lab and show how natural selection can alter the gene frequencies in a population.
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What's Your Type
Students record their blood types on a class graph and calculate the potential number of blood donors for each group.
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The Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students discover that skin protects our bodies the way apple skin protects an apple.
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Chancing it
Seventh graders examine different transplant types and estimate the possible outcomes. In this biology lesson plan students discuss donors and transplants then divide into groups and complete a worksheet.
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Extraction of DNA from White Onion
Students conduct lab test with minced onion to determine where chromosonal DNA is located within the cell, and whether or not it can be extracted.
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PICTURE PERFECT PYRAMID
Students create a model of the USDA's Food Pyramid Guide, using shoe boxes. They bring an assortment of shoe boxes from home. Students are given a copy of the "Food Guide Pyramid." They wrap boxes for the bread group in white, the...
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Circulatory System,
Fourth graders study the components and physiology of the human circulatory system.
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Circulatory System Design
Students identify the different parts of the circulatory system and their function. They work together to create their own model of the system and use it to determine the rate of blood flow. They answer questions related to their model.
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What is the Immune System and How Does HIV Affect It?
Student discuss the effect of HIV on the immune system. In this human body lesson, students research the immune system and how the HIV virus weakens it. They create a bulletin board showing how HIV is transmitted.
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The Human Body
Every moment, the systems in your body are working together to keep you breathing, standing, and thinking. Elementary schoolers explore the human body and its systems with an impressive, 15-page lesson plan that should leave your...
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I Can Balance. You Can Balance.
It's disturbing to think that one third of children born after the year 2000 will suffer from diabetes and perhaps be the first generation to live shorter lives than their parents! Too many youngsters are not eating properly and are not...
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