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The Facts About Concussions

The Facts About Concussions

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students explore brain injuries called concussions: what they are, how they occur, the challenges in diagnosing them, and ways to protect yourself from them.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Florida's Everglades: The River of Grass

Florida's Everglades: The River of Grass

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the unique environment of southern Florida's Everglades and gain insights into the interrelatedness of living things, nonliving things, and climate.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

How Does Your Environment Affect Your Health?

How Does Your Environment Affect Your Health?

In this media-rich self-paced lesson, students explore how environmental factors affect human health and how they can reduce their exposure to health hazards in their environment.

5-8

Self-paced Lesson

Nutrition: What Your Body Needs

Nutrition: What Your Body Needs

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine the nutritional content of different foods and learn about the health benefits and risks associated with the food choices they make.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Observations of Climate Change

Observations of Climate Change

In this media-rich self-paced lesson, students learn how data gathered through surveys with local residents and data collected by remote satellites are complementary tools that help deepen our understanding of the effects of climate change in the Arctic and elsewhere.

6-12

Self-paced Lesson

Personification: Cowbirds

Personification: Cowbirds

In this lesson designed to enhance literary skills, students explore personification as a literary device through the story of the cowbird, which is portrayed as "evil" in a documentary video.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Powering Your Body with Exercise

Powering Your Body with Exercise

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the positive effects that exercise has on the body and some activities they can do to improve their health.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

The Promise and Perils of Genetic Technologies

The Promise and Perils of Genetic Technologies

In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore some of the technologies designed to detect and treat inherited diseases and the ethical debate surrounding them.

9-12

Self-paced Lesson

Protect Your Health and Environment

Protect Your Health and Environment

In this media-rich self-paced lesson, students explore health hazards in their environment and learn how to make their environment safer.

3-4

Self-paced Lesson

Reconnecting with Your Environment

Reconnecting with Your Environment

In this media-rich activity designed for teacher professional development, take a nature walk to observe aspects of your local environment, then plan an activity for students that will help them better understand their own surroundings and how they interact with the natural world.

6-12

Self-paced Lesson

Reproduction: One Goal, Two Methods

Reproduction: One Goal, Two Methods

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the advantages and disadvantages of the two basic forms of reproduction for the living things that practice them.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Snake Jaws: Connecting Structure and Function

Snake Jaws: Connecting Structure and Function

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn how animals' physical characteristics, such as jaw structure, are directly related to the function they perform when the animal interacts with its environment.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Solving a Public Health Problem

Solving a Public Health Problem

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students study a disease outbreak and the investigation that followed to understand the role that public health workers play in protecting the communities they serve.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Surviving Winter

Surviving Winter

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn about the varied physical and behavioral adaptations that animals rely on to help them survive changing environmental conditions, such as the arrival of winter.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Taking Action for a Clean Environment

Taking Action for a Clean Environment

In this media-rich, self-paced lesson, students explore activism, some of the tactics that youth activists may use to influence others and bring about change, and the characteristics activists possess.

9-12

Self-paced Lesson

<em>Tiktaalik</em>: A Fish Out of Water

Tiktaalik: A Fish Out of Water

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students learn that transitional fossils provide scientists with evidence to establish how major animal groups are related to one another.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

Using the 3Rs to Help the Environment

Using the 3Rs to Help the Environment

In this lesson designed to enhance literacy skills, students examine our growing waste problem and learn about strategies we can use to lessen the strain on our landfills and Earth's natural resources: reduce, reuse, recycle.

5-12

Self-paced Lesson

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