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Coloration Exploration

For Teachers K - 5th Standards
Finding an animal in nature can be like a game of hide and seek. A thorough lesson explores different coloration strategies of animals. Pupils complete look-and-find puzzles and coloring sheets to differentiate between different types of...
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How Do Flowering Plants Reproduce

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students investigate how flowering plants reproduce. They identify and describe the functions of the major sexual organs of a flower and fruit by examining and dissecting flowers and fruit.
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THE EMBRYO GAME

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop a game similar to BINGO. They compare the reproduction and embryo development of different organisms while initiating group and cooperative learning. They constuct cards from vocabulary words.
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Alcohol and Pregnancy Don't Mix!

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders learn about John Kellerman, a youngster who was born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. They learn how alcohol and pregnancy doesn't mix.
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How Does Evolution Work?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students are introduced to how the process of evolution works. As a class, they review the characteristics of natural selection and how those with advantageous traits reproduce and survive. To test this theory of natural selection,...
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Meiosiss Revisited

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders are engaged in a lesson that covers the concept of meiosis with the intention of covered sexual reproduction. They cover the concept of genetic traits and how they are transmitted over generations with or without...
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Emergency Contraceptive Pills, Day 5: Contraception 911

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students define and discuss emergency contraception. They conduct a survey, complete various worksheets, role-play scenarios, identify three ways of obtaining emergency contraceptive pills, and discuss when emergency contraception would...
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Pollinators and Wildflowers

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students explore how plants depend on pollinators to reproduce.  In this pollination lesson students dissect a local flower and collect and identify pollinating insects. 
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Human Embryo Development and Birth Defects

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Open this lesson with a discussion on birth defects. Break the class into groups to visit a website and learn about what happens at each stage of human embryo and fetal development. Assign each group a particular birth defect to...
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The Birth Control Movement

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students examine the resistance to the birth control movement. They compare and contrast the reasons for and against birth control and examine the social agendas of the supporters of birth control.
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What Happens in the First Nine Months?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explore human development using Internet resources that contain text, drawings, photos, and video about human development. They research a trimester of pregnancy then create drawings to show what is happening to the fetus during...
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Pregnancy and Birth

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Participants describe the process of pregnancy and childbirth. Working in pairs, they sequentially order a set of ten cards listing the steps of pregnancy and childbirth. After the cards are arranged correctly, each phase is discussed in...
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Sex Under the Influence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the effects of drinking on decision making. In this alcohol use lesson, students discover how their decision making skills are hindered when drinking. Students discuss how HIV is and is not transmitted and analyze the...
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Changing Bodies

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders investigate the human body by viewing a movie and asking questions. In this sexual maturation instructional activity, 7th graders identify the ways boys and girls develop into men and women through puberty. Students view...
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A Reef of Your Own

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the reproductive strategies of reef building corals.  For this coral reef lesson students describe the behaviors of reef building corals and their nutritional strategies. 
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Evolution

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research the theory of evolution and the controversy.  In this evolution lesson plan students view a film on Charles Darwin then they write an essay about whether or not intelligent design should be taught in science class. 
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Teenage pregnancy trends in Canada

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze demographic data relating to teen pregnancy trends. They develop skills to locate and interpret data. They discuss the factors that influence teenage pregancy such as social, economic, and educational issues.
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Responsibilities of Parenting

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students sign the job sheet, scenario sheet and Lucky day and Bad day sheets and select one of the jobs from the provided list. Then, they meet and decide who will go to which stores. Students also role play a particular scenario as...
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Taking Care of a Baby

For Teachers K - 2nd
Caring for a newborn is harder than it looks! Elementary pupils learn more about taking care of babies with an age-appropriate instructional activity that addresses how babies grow inside their mothers, what they need to grow, and how...
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Growth Stages 1: Infancy and Early Childhood

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars explore biology by completing a human growth worksheet. In this child development lesson, students read assigned text about the human birth process and the ideal growth patterns for a child. Young scholars answer study...
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Contraceptive Options

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students discuss ways to avoid pregnancy.  In this contraception options lesson, students can describe various types of contraception option. Students study the case of Rosa and David.
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Dear Expert

For Teachers 10th - 12th
High schoolers identify sexual decision-making issues. In small groups, they answers letters written to them as the expert. Groups discuss the most appropriate way to respond to the scenario given to them and formulate an answer to the...
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Anatomy and Physiology

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders investigate the male sexual anatomy. Each part is discussed in detail with lecture from the teacher. The topic of circumcision is also covered and it helps to promote cultural diversity. The internal functions of the penis...
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Plant Propagation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students successfully start a new plant by any means of vegetative propagation. They select a propagation method which is appropriate for the plant and keep a laboratory journal of the treatment and progress of the new plant.

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