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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Cayman Islands: Turtle Beach: What Controls Our Body?

For Students 4th - 6th
This lesson explains how the five senses work together with the nervous system and the brain to give us essential information about the world around us.
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University of Washington

The Senses

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site has a collection of learning activities, games, experiments, and lesson plans on the five senses. Organized by grade level and topic, this site is packed with an assortment of interactive and engaging activities, that would...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Biology: The Musculoskeletal System Posttest

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge over the musculoskeletal system with this five multiple-choice question posttest.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Biology: The Nervous System Post Test

For Students 9th - 10th
A five-question multiple-choice quiz assessing the topic of the central nervous system of the human body.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Biology: Sensory Systems Post Test

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this five-question post test over the sensory systems and receptors throughout the body. After hitting submit, check to read about the correct answers.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Biology: Sensory Systems Pretest

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this five-question pretest over the sensory systems and receptors throughout the body. After hitting submit, check to read about the correct answers.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Biology: The Animal Body and Principles of Regulation Pretest

For Students 9th - 10th
Students have the opportunity to take this five question pretest to assess their knowledge of the principles of regulation in the human body.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Our Bodies Have Computers and Sensors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students learn about the human body's system components, specifically its sensory systems, nervous system and brain, while comparing them to robot system components, such as sensors and computers. The unit's life sciences-to-engineering...
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Geographyiq

Geography Iq

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed geographical information on any country is available at this site. Within the World Map section, you can get facts and figures about each country's geography, demographics, government, political system, flags, historical and...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Nerve Racking

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson describes the function and components of the human nervous system. It helps students understand the purpose of our brain, spinal cord, nerves and the five senses. How the nervous system is affected during spaceflight is also...
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Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Tswana

For Students 9th - 10th
Batswana are divided into a number of subgroups or "tribes", There are approximately twenty-five totems, which crosscut "tribal" boundaries. Although Batswana received Christian missionaries in the early nineteenth century and most...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Nuts" About Peanuts! (Reading)

For Teachers K - 1st
The lesson will be implemented as part of a unit about plants. The students will learn about the growth cycle of a peanut and use a Five-Step Sequence Think-sheet to sequence the steps. They will also make predictions and complete...
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: The Integumentary System: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try these five multiple-choice questions about the integumentary system. Each question has a clickable hint prompt as well as a self-checking feature.
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Our Sense of Touch

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
How does the sense of touch work? Is the sense of touch more sensitive in some parts of the body, such as fingertips, than in others? In this lesson plan young scholars explore the sense of touch by identifying mystery objects with their...
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Frontiers Media

Frontiers: Feeling Your Way and Knowing by Touch

For Students 9th - 10th
You can perceive things by touching, tasting, smelling, listening and seeing. The sensory system that allows us to "feel" is called somatosensation (so-MAT-o-sen-sa-shun). Somatosensation is a broadly defined perceptual system that...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: The Small and Large Intestines

For Students 9th - 10th
With this module, students will be able to identify three main adaptations of the small intestine's wall that increase its absorptive capacity. Students will also trace the pathway of food waste from its point of entry into the large...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Human and Robot Sensors

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students are provided with a rigorous background in human "sensors" (including information on the main five senses, sensor anatomies, and nervous system process) and their engineering equivalents, setting the stage for three associated...
Activity
Hunkins Experiments

Hunkin's Experiments: How to Map Your Sense of Touch

For Students 9th - 10th
Hunkin's Experiments is a group of simple cartoon illustrations of scientific principles. Some would work well in the classroom, but others have little value beyond entertaining students. All of the projects are easy to do. This would be...