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Teamwork makes the dream work! A well-designed lesson helps learners discover how the circulatory and respiratory systems team up to keep their bodies alive. The lesson includes a diagram of the major connections between the lungs and...
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What Happens to Our Hearts When We Are Active?
Students discover the benefits of a healthy heart through exercise. In this physical education lesson, students participate in a few physical activities in order to get their hearts beating faster. Students examine a visual...
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Arthropods
For this arthropods worksheet, students will identify 3 different arthropods and compare these organisms' breathing structures: gills, book lungs, and tracheal tubes. This worksheet has 3 fill in the blank and 6 short answer questions.
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Cardiorespiratory Fitness
Young scholars explore cardiorespiratory fitness. In this biology lesson plan, students gain an understanding of pulse rates in order to compare lung capacities of active and inactive males and females. They also learn how to take and...
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Nanomedicine
Cancer patients need as much help as they can get. Future engineers design a system that delivers cancer medicine to the lungs but doesn't harm other organs. Using ferrofluids and iron particles, they test out their delivery systems.
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Hearbeat
Third graders pair up and listen to each others heartbeat. They run in place for one minute and then listen again and calculate the beats per minute resting and after activity. They switch and repeat the activity.
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Elastic Recoil in Arteries and Veins
A lab in which high schoolers examine the difference between arteries and veins. Budding biologists will find out which blood vessel can stretch furthest, recording their data in a table then answering several questions evaluating their...
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Health - Respiration
Here is an interesting and engaging lesson on the lungs and the respiratory system. In it, fourth graders should gain a better understanding of how the lungs work and the role they play in supporting life. Some good, in-class partner...
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Human Skeleton
Promote reading comprehension and practice naming parts of the human skeleton with this online interactive learning exercise! Scholars read about the functions of the human skeletal system, then work online to label a diagram by filling...
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How Can You Stay Fit?
Students identify ways that cardiovascular fitness is achieved and maintained. In this cardiovascular health lesson, students discuss what aerobic exercise is and list various activities which address cardiovascular fitness. Students run...
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Breathe In, Breathe Out
Students study the respiratory system, the lungs and air. In this respiratory lesson students describe technologies that engineers have found that improve the health of the respiratory system.
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IDENTIFYING PARTS OF THE BODY
Learners identify and describe the various parts of the body therefore, practicing English vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling. They discuss the various body parts, some of the inner organs and also, their functions. Finally,...
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Circulation
In this circulation learning exercise, students review the circulatory system including the structures and functions of this system. This learning exercise has 5 word scramble, 4 short answer, 1 fill in the blank, and 6 true or false...
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Blood and the Circulatory System
In this circulatory system worksheet, high schoolers review the organs that are involved with this body system, including their structure and function. Students explore the problems that can occur with the circulatory system. This...
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Backpacking - Lesson 5 - Getting in Shape for the Trail
Do you have to be in decent condition to go on a weekend backpacking trip? This resource stresses the importance of fitness in backpacking. There are many ways to get the legs, the lungs, and the heart ready for a strenuous excursion....
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Life Science: Human Body Skit
Students create skits based on the human body systems. Working in groups, they role-play as organs in the various systems. They make costumes or wear signs identifying themselves as the organs in their skits.
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Aerobic Frisbee Golf
Students work cooperatively as a team and accurately throw a Frisbee. In addition, students explore fitness components and different systems of the human body.
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Skeletal, Skin, and Muscular Systems
Eighth graders explain the functions of various body systems. Using a concept map, 8th graders identify and explain the fuctions of the skeletal, skin, and muscular systems of the body. After completing their concept map, students...
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Organs and What They Do - Lecture
Pupils read information about the internal organs and body systems. In this organs and systems lesson, students read descriptions of the heart, lungs, stomach, small and large intestine, and liver and gall bladder. Pupils study images of...
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Just Breathe
Learners examine the inhalation and exhalation process. They create a model pair of lungs from given materials. They discover the technology that has been developed based on engineers examining the respiratory system.
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Geometry: Practical Applications of the Distance Formula
Students, working independently and in groups, apply the distance formula to practical situations. After solving various problems, students in pairs design coordinate planes from the school blue print to measure the distance from the...
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Word Groups - Odd Word Out (3)
In this word work activity, 4th graders find the odd word out from each of 6 word groups and write on the line below. They examine each group of 5 words to determine which one is not included in the classification.
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Aerobic Frisbee Golf
Students work cooperatively to accurately throw a Frisbee in order to learn about fitness components and different systems of the human body.
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Spaceship Commander Tag
Learners participate in a gross motor and locomotor game of tag. A group of students, spaceship commanders, work together to capture all of the "aliens" in the class while wearing hula hoops and practicing a variety of locomotor movements.