Living Earth · Week 26 · Structure, Function, and Health
Keeping Balance in the Heat
Planning an investigation of the feedback mechanisms that cool the body and practicing a personal feedback loop to cool strong emotions.
- Students will
- Students plan an investigation of how negative feedback mechanisms keep body temperature stable and design a feedback loop for calming strong emotions.
- SEL skill
- Use a notice, pause, adjust loop to cool a strong emotion
- What it looks like
- Students practice regulating strong emotions with a loop of notice, pause, adjust.
- Content focus
- Feedback loops that cool the body
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management is steering your own feelings, thinking, and actions toward the goals you set. More self-management activities
What you get
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Standards
- HS-LS1-3: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP3 Planning and carrying out investigations
- Crosscutting concept: CCC7 Stability and change
- CA Environmental Principles and Concepts: Principle I: People depend on natural systems
- Literacy in science: WHST.9-10.7 Conduct short and sustained research projects to answer a question or solve a problem.
- Traditional course: Biology
Fits these textbook chapters
- California HMH Science Dimensions: The Living Earth, Unit 7: Structure and Function in Living Things
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More self-management activities for Living Earth
- Carrying Capacity and Limits Self-managementGraphing population growth up to a carrying capacity, then naming the limits on students' own energy and time.
- Breathing Out Energy Self-managementModeling cellular respiration and practicing slow breathing as a tool to steady the body before a test.
- Building Blocks of Life Self-managementExplaining how carbon from sugar becomes proteins and fats, and how small daily actions build larger goals.
- Survival in the Heat Self-managementExplaining the adaptations of desert pupfish and naming the personal adaptations students use to handle stress.
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