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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses Lesson PlanMaking Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses Lesson Plan
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Making Connections: Exploring Our Brains through the Five Senses

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Students record observations and create drawings and models of anatomy using their five senses. They describe the structures of a neuron and analyze each of their functions. They compare and contrast the typical structural features of a general somatic cell to that of the specialized structures of the neuron.

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9th - 12th
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Science
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