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Applied Science-Techonology Post Lab
Students study animals. In this machines and tools lesson, students study animals to figure out how various tools were created for humans to use. They are read the story An Elephant Never Forgets its Snorkel to help spark ideas. They...
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Applied Science - Technology (KA) Pre Lab
Students explore tools. In this tool lesson plan, students see how tools and machines were invented to help people work easier. They see different types of simple machines such as wheel and axle, lever, and wedge.
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Obesity in Our World Today
Seventh graders investigate overeating and personal health by researching obesity facts. In this healthy eating lesson, 7th graders research the Internet for facts about youth obesity and the causes of ailments such as diabetes. Students...
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Human Rights Education Handbook: Image Theater
Students create a human machine to represent a concept related to human rights such as opression, liberation, justice. They make one machine per group, adding one person with a repeating sound and motion at a time.
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The Anesthetic Machine
In this biology worksheet, students identify and locate various vocabulary terms pertaining to the operation of an anesthetic machine in veterinary practice. There are 54 biology terms located in the word search.
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Machinery In Society
Students explore technology by completing a worksheet in class. For this common machinery lesson, students define the different designs that make simple machines work such as wheels, pulleys and gears. Students utilize verbs to describe...
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Levers and Pulleys
Seventeen pages of material leave you well-prepared to carry out this activity on levers and pulleys. Photos and diagrams make the instructions clear; resource links provide additional information. The missing aspects of this teacher's...
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Our Amazing Skeleton
Students study the skeleton, about the number of and types of bones in the body, and how outer space affects astronauts' bones. They discover how to take care of their bones here on Earth to prevent osteoporosis, or, weakening of the...
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Exercise and Muscles
Eighth graders identify and label the primary and secondary muscles used to perform an exercise. Students perform an exercise on a weight machine to figure out which muscles are being used. Students illustrate the muscles used by...
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Internal Anatomy: A Fun Look At The Digestive System
Students look at the functions of the body. In this biology lesson plan, students explore the functioning of some body part and construct a "living doll" composed of the body parts discussed.
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Help, I can't reach it!
Students learn the major organ systems in the human body and research simple machines on the Internet; They design an informational brochure about a medical profession and present that career topic to the class.
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Healthy Heart Parent Night
Students use a smoke analysis machine and create a visual display to show risks involved in smoking. In this cigarette smoking lesson, students demonstrate how to use a smoke analysis machine and show results in a visual display....
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Home: Where the Heart Is
If you're looking for copious background information to support study of the human heart, here it is! You can find photos of hearts, and text about the development, structure, systems, and monitoring that support heart function. Also...
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Just Passing Through
Young scholars examine the functions of the kidney and its place in the urinary system. They discuss how astronauts go the bathroom in space, examine labeled diagrams of the urinary system, and draw a large scale drawing of the...
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Worksheet 2: Functions as Machines
In this algebra worksheet, students read about the concept of functions and how to apply them. Then they fill in the graphic organizer with the right type of functions.
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History of the X-Ray
Seventh graders discuss the history of the x-ray machine. In this social science lesson plan, 7th graders understand how a x-ray machine works. Students recognize that there have been many improvements to the x-ray machine over the years...
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Energy Content Of Foods And Fuels
Learners engage in a study of food and how it used as fuel for the human body. They research how biological systems require energy and compare them to the physical science systems like machines. They compare and contrast what they have...
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Force on a Current Carrying Wire
What do electrical currents have to do with an MRI? Using a simple wire setup and a magnet, class members explore forces used in an MRI by investigating the magnetic force acting on a wire carrying a current.
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TE Lesson: Out of Breath
Students study the parts of the human respiratory system while examining the gas exchange that takes place in the lungs. They make a model lung. They look at how the respiratory system is affected by spaceflight.
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Muscles, Oh My!
Students explore the human muscular system. In this science instructional activity, students discuss how engineering is related to the field of bio-mechanics and human movement.
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Observing Motion
First graders explore movement and motion. In this motion lesson, 1st graders how objects can move as well as how the Earth is in constant motion and the force of gravity. Students complete a coloring sheet.
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NASA Robots
Learners investigate how robots are used in space. In this space science lesson, students participate in an experiment using a blindfold and complete assigned tasks. The learners demonstrate how robots are "thinking" machines.
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Superhumans and Bionics: Building Hi-Tech Exoskeletons
Students explore how the body works. Students experiment and participate in activities to compare speed to stride length. Using the data collected, students draw conclusions about the biology of dinosaurs, their speed and stride length.
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Scientific Notation II: The Mantissa
Practice converting a conventional number into scientific notation, and vice-versa. Using an applet, they perform the operations of multiplication and division on numbers expressed in scientific notation.