Growth Stages 2: Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence

A simple cloze activity gets learners developing a comfort level with sexual development terminology. For Activity 1, they use 12 terms to fill in 11 blanks in an informational text, including sperm, eggs, sex hormones, puberty,...

Upper elementary scientists test basketballs with differing amounts of air to find if inflation affects bounce height. The instructional activity introduction poses the question of whether or not the composition of a ball determines...

Young scholars demonstrate their knowledge of panthers by writing a play on the subject.  In this animal life lesson, students view a slide-show on school computers of a veterinary exam of a panther.  Young scholars...

Students explore biology by completing a human growth worksheet. For this child development lesson, students read assigned text about the human birth process and the ideal growth patterns for a child. Students answer study questions...

Learn the characteristics of puberty and adolescence in humans.

Understand stages of human population growth.

Students document sections of their life through pictures, stories, and video to create an English "memory book". They use photographs, video and edited video which includes their history, includes calculated growth, and genetic...

Learners identify the unique parts of the body of skates and their egg cases.

Students gain understanding of structure, characteristics, and basic needs of living things and their role in world, identify parts of skate, observe details of skate's body and skate egg case, and identify unique characteristics of skates.