Living Earth · Week 25 · Structure, Function, and Health
Systems Inside the Body
Modeling interacting body systems and mapping where emotions show up in the body.
- Students will
- Students develop a model showing how the nervous, circulatory, respiratory, and digestive systems interact to respond to a stressful event.
- SEL skill
- Notice where an emotion shows up in the body and name it
- What it looks like
- Students notice where emotions show up in the body and name them.
- Content focus
- Body systems working together
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is noticing what you think, feel, value, and do well, and understanding how that shapes your choices. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- HS-LS1-2: High School Life Science performance expectation
- Science and engineering practice: SEP2 Developing and using models
- Crosscutting concept: CCC4 Systems and system models
- Literacy in science: RST.9-10.7 Translate between quantitative or technical information in words, tables, graphs, and equations.
- 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-awareness activities for Living Earth
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- Sunlight Into Sugar Self-awarenessModeling photosynthesis as an energy transformation and naming what refuels students' own energy.
- Clues in Shared Ancestry Self-awarenessComparing anatomical and DNA evidence for common ancestry and reflecting on the family and community roots students share.
- Semester Reflection: My Growth as a Scientist Self-awarenessStudents explain how the factors of evolution changed a real population, contrast that with how they grew as learners this semester, and set goals for the spring.
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