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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cocaine Addiction in Mice

For Students 9th - 10th
Read this passage and answer the five-question quiz to tests your knowledge on drug addiction treatments.
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Other

Healthline: Three Dimensional Body Map: Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
Rotatable view of the nervous system lets you examine the anatomy of the brain in 360 degrees.
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Other

Marine Biological Laboratory: Why Study Marine Organisms for Biomedical Research

For Students 9th - 10th
Descriptions of various research projects using marine organisms that have direct impact on medical research. The resource has a perspective on how medicine makes progress.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: My Body

For Students 2nd - 7th
For elementary school children, this page presents information about lungs, muscles, digestive system, teeth, skin, tongue, hair, heart, and more.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: Science of the Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Introduce students to how the body looks and works with these texts on biology and genetics. This collection includes 20 Grade-Leveled texts (5-10) on the topic of Science of the Body. [Free account registration required for specific...
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University of Washington

Neuroscience for Kids Other Translations

For Students 9th - 10th
Translations of Neuroscience for Kids, an excellent site on the brain and brain science by neuroscientists at the University of Washington. Includes Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Portuguese, Italian, Slovene, and Korean. Translations...
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Curated OER

Drug Mechanisms and Brain Function: The Antipsychotic Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on the effect of certain drugs on human personality. Article's foundation is in anti-psychotic research.
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Curated OER

Drug Mechanisms and Brain Function: The Antipsychotic Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on the effect of certain drugs on human personality. Article's foundation is in anti-psychotic research.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Nose Knows Smell but How About Taste?

For Students 3rd - 8th
As if sniffles and clogged sinuses are bad enough, everything seems to taste bland and flavorless when we are sick. Gather up a few volunteers, hit the kitchen, and try this experiment to find out if there is really truth to the idea...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Think Fast: Do Video Game Players Have Faster Reaction Time

For Students 9th - 10th
Are you an avid video game player? Do you think this helps you have fast reaction times? This Science Buddies science project lays out an experiment to help you test your hypothesis. The Science Buddies project ideas are set up...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What's an Algorithm?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An algorithm is a method of solving problems both big and small. Though computers run algorithms constantly, humans can also solve problems with algorithms. David J. Malan explains how algorithms can be used in seemingly simple...
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Cynthia J. O'Hora

Mrs. O's House: Concussion and Head Injury Action Plan

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Concussions and head injuries are the buzz in sports today. Address concussion and head injuries in the classroom and provide students resources to research and report on findings.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: What Conflicting Mental Tasks Reveal About Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th
Can you pat your head with one hand while you rub your stomach with the other? This experiment is kind of like that, but it can actually give you some insight into how your mind works. The task is to name colors. It sounds simple enough,...
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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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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Warped Words and the Stroop Effect

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Stroop effect describes an experiment about the time it takes to name the color of printed words. When you try to name the color in which color words are printed, it takes longer when the color word differs from the ink color than...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do We Smell?

For Students 9th - 10th
An adult human can distinguish up to 10,000 odors. You use your nose to figure out what to eat, what to buy and even when it's time to take a shower. But how do the molecules in the air get translated into smells in your brain? This...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sound From Left or Right?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Why do humans have two ears? How do the properties of sound help with directional hearing? Students learn about directional hearing and how our brains determine the direction of sounds by the difference in time between arrival of sound...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: How the Body Works

For Students 3rd - 8th
A colorful, interactive site for kids and teens. A holistic approach to learning about your body, including topics such as feelings, drugs, injuries, and other health issues. Available in Spanish.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Control Using Sound

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students gain a deeper understanding of how sound sensors work through a hands-on design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT taskbots and sound sensors.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Don't Bump Into Me!

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students' understanding of how robotic ultrasonic sensors work is reinforced in a design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and ultrasonic sensors.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Fear and the "Dagger of the Mind"

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan accompanies a reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth and lets young scholars explore Macbeth's "response to fear" through studying metaphor, imagery, and dramatic cues and by performing a scene.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Inside Your Computer

For Students 9th - 10th
How does a computer work? The critical components of a computer are the peripherals (including the mouse), the input/output subsystem (which controls what and how much information comes in and out), and the central processing unit (the...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Does Your Body Know What Time It Is?

For Students 9th - 10th
Being able to sense time helps us do everything from waking and sleeping to knowing precisely when to catch a ball that's hurtling towards us. And we owe all these abilities to an interconnected system of timekeepers in our brains. But...
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Pattern Behind Self Deception

For Students 9th - 10th
Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things- from alien abductions to dowsing rods- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are and how they get us into...

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