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Using Imagery To Introduce the Endocrine System

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners listen with closed eyes to a story that starts in a relaxed tone and ends in a scream. They list the body reactions they experience: fast heart rate, shaking, etc. and hypothesize the reason for the reactions. They explore the...
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Using Imaginary to Introduce the Endocrine System

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine the functions of the endocrine system.  In this body protective systems lesson students identify body reactions, define terms and complete an activity.
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Endocrine And Reproductive Systems

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners investigate the hormonal levels that are created with the endocrine system and tie it to the act of sexual reproduction. The lesson plan discusses how the respiratory system is organized as a comparison to the endocrine system...
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Virginia Department of Education

Body Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
The human body is an amazing thing! Explore the body with your high school class as they investigate each system in detail. They learn components of each organ system and disease processes that can negatively affect general health and...
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Regulation - Human Nervous and Endocrine Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils explore homeostasis within the nervous and endocrine system with this Smart Board activity. In this biology lesson plan, students will fill in the know and want to know sections of a KWL chart as a class using a...
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Endocrine System Study Question Worksheet

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this endocrine system worksheet, students define 8 words associated with this human system. They answer 11 short answer questions about the structure and function of the organs and hormones that make up the endocrine system.
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Unlocking the Endocrine System

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use an analogy to the mail delivery system to study the workings of the human endocrine system. They discover the interrelationships between the human body systems while comparing them to engineering communicating with...
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Endocrine Excitement!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are divided into a group of hormones and a group of receptors. The hormones have to find their matching receptors, and the pair, once matched, perform a given action. This activity helps students examine the specificity of...
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The Grand Glands

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students extend their knowledge of the endocrine system through in depth examination utilizing the technology of video. They play a game where they have to identify a variety of glands once they're given clues.
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Regulation - Human Nervous and Endocrine Systems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students use a KWL graphic organizer to stimulate schema and demonstrate their knowledge of the nervous and endocrine systems. They view a movie, "Biologix: The Neuroendocrine System." Students complete a Venn Diagram as a summative...
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Organ Systems

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students examine organisms that are composed of tissues, organs, and systems. They dissect a fetal pig and explore the assigned organs systems such as the skeletal, muscular, and circulatory organs. Students identify and explain their...
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Science NetLinks: Changing World 1: Endocrine Disruptors

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate how environmental surprises and endocrine disruptors influence perceptions of benefits and costs. The decisions of science are under these type of influences and must be thought out with a definite method.
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Endocrine Man

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Young scholars identify the parts and function of the endocrine system. In this biology lesson, students draw a man and label the glands of the endocrine system. They present their poster in class.
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Chemical Controversy

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students explore the endocrine disruption theory. They work in groups to research and develop a persuasive oral argument to support one side of the endocrine disruption theory. Students engage in debate and other activities to analyze...
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Infectious Diseases

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders identify and explain how infectious diseases effect organ systems. Using an analogy with automobiles and body systems, they discover how one part influences the operation of the whole. Students write paragraphs about...
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Human Body Systems

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the systems that comprise the human body. In this human physiology lesson plan, students create a model of the human body and research a disease from a particular system. Students will then choose to either interview a...
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Human Body Systems

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the structure and function of body systems and their inter-relationships. They draw and label the major body systems, observe demonstrations of various body systems, define key vocabulary terms, and compare...
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Body Systems Unit

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders complete a unit of lessons on the body systems. They watch the video, Magic Schoolbus Inside the Human Body, trace their bodies and construct the systems on the tracing, simulate the digestive system, and participate in...
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Organ System Interactions

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders who have studied all of the organ systems now discover how they all are related and work together in the human body. They discuss a variety of situations in which more than one system plays a part. They identify the...
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Cell Communication

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students clarify common misconceptions about cells. They assess initial knowledge of cells and cell behavior, read and discuss an article and consider the role of cell communication in the diseases of diabetes, multiple sclerosis and...
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Endocrine System

For Teachers 12th - Higher Ed
In this endocrine system worksheet, students match the correct gland found in the endocrine system to its hormone and target cell(s). They also describe the actions of each gland and hormone combined together.
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The Skeletal System

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students identify bones off a skeleton during quizzes; assemble disarticulated skeletons; bird, frog and rat. They dissect frogs, remove the muscle tissue, and identify of bones.
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Nuffield Foundation

Controlling Body Mass

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Many variables impact your body mass, not just diet and exercise. Scholars collect and study data about body mass to better understand the complexity of a sensitive topic. They learn about leptin deficiency, the hypothalamus, and more.
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Take Two and Call Me in the Morning

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders are introduced to the workings of the major systems of the Human Body: circulatory, digestive, respiratory, nervous, skeletal, and endocrine Systems. They learn the major organs of the systems and their functions.

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