Human Biology

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  Biochemistry Lab - Metabolism & Food Labels
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  Lab Students will analyze their lunch based on the type of biomolecules in the food they would eat. This is a great metabolism lab that lets students relate to the metabolism, biomolecules, monomers and polymers.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-6 MS-LS1-7 (Metabolism)
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Biome Resource Availability Worksheet
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  Worksheet Assess student’s knowledge of the terrestrial biomes and the resources available to organisms in each biome.
  NGSS Standard MS-LS2-1 (Resource Availability)
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Metabolism & Monomer - Polymer Test Question Bank
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  Test Metabolism and Monomer Polymer question bank to help you build assessments. An active membership is required to view questions.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-6 MS-LS1-7 (Metabolism)
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Human Body Systems Disorder Project
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  Project Students will do a BLAST and learn about how the mutated protein affects cells, organs, and organ systems and those systems overall impact on homeostasis. The example students will use is sickle cell disorder.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-1 HS-LS1-2 HS-LS1-3
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Design a Homeostasis Lab
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  Lab This is an introductory lesson into how to design an experiment. Students will practice writing a hypothesis. Students will create procedures to conduct their own experiment. Students will create a data table for their experimental data. Students will write a conclusion that has them focus on evidence from their experiment.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-3
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Homeostasis Test Question Bank
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  Test Question bank to build assessments. An active membership is required to view questions.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-3
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Body Systems Interactions Test Question Bank
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  Test Question bank to build assessments. An active membership is required to view questions.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  How HIV Infects Cells - AP
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  Worksheet Students read about how HIV infects cells, answer 3 questions, and then color the virus / cell parts for 15 keywords.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS)
  Published by Shannan Muskopf

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  Fetal Pig Dissection
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  Lab Fetal Pig dissection lab manual.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS) MS-LS1-4 (Animal Plant Structures)
  Published by Shannan Muskopf

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  Digestive System Lab: What Happens When You Eat
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  Lab These six digestive system labs have students increasing their knowledge of how digestion occurs in the human body. Students will identify organs involved in performing digestion and eat time they eat.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 HS-LS1-6 MS-LS1-3 (HBS) MS-LS1-7 (Metabolism)
  Published by Kelly Ludwig

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  Blood Type Genetics Lab
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  Lab In this blood typing lab, students pretend to investigate blood samples (actually simple chemicals) and use their analysis of the experiment to solve a crime and determine if two babies were switched in the hospital.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS3-3
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

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  Macromolecule Lab - Organic Compound Mystery
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  Lab In this macromolecule lab, students learn about the three food-based biomolecules by testing for triglycerides, glucose, starch, and proteins. Students will use indicator solutions like test strips, paper bag stain test, iodine, and Biuret solution. Students experiment on the following mystery substances: vegetable oil, glucose, corn starch, powdered egg whites, and water.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-6
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

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  What is Food Worksheet
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  Worksheet Students discover using their peer and class discussion what makes food and what is food mostly made out of. Good intro to biomolecules and metabolism.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-6
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Plant Growth Homeostasis Lab
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  Lab Students will learn how to disrupt homeostasis in plants and use this disruption to understand biological processes. Students will be able to integrate how many processes are involved for plants to grow. Students will be able to design a guided inquiry experiment.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-3 HS-LS1-4 HS-LS1-5 HS-LS1-6 HS-LS1-7 Common Core Standard RST 9.10.3, 9.10.5, 9.10.7, WST 9.10.1b, 9.10.1e, 9.10.2a, 9.10.7, 9.10.9
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Characteristics of Life Lab
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  Lab Students will learn use their observation skills to determine if an object is living, dead, dormant, a product of a living thing, or never alive using the main characteristics of life.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-3 HS-LS4-2 MS-LS1-1 (Cell Types)
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Human Body Wanted Poster Project
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  Project Students will create a to create a "Wanted" poster about an organ. Students will research an organ system contains your organ, the organ's main functions, ow does your organ works with other systems to keep the body healthy, which diseases or disorders affects your organ, and can a person live without the organ.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS) MS-LS1-8 (Brain)
  Published by Stacy Baker & Tracy Trimpe

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  Cell Membrane Lab: Vitamin E and Aging of Cells
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  Lab In this cell membrane lab, students learn how Vitamin E inhibits the oxidation of phospholipid and glycolipid molecules in cell membranes. Students then take this concept further with predicting ways to save humans from several life threatening problems revolved around the cell membrane and the immune system.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-6
  Published by Kelly Ludwig

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  Circulatory System Lab - Heart Rate Regulation
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  Lab In this heart rate lab, students learn how to measure heart rate and then they design an experiment to test the effects of an activity or stimulus on heart rate. In their lab report, students analyze and interpret the experimental data, and culminate with a presentation of their experiment to the class.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 HS-LS1-3 MS-LS1-3 (HBS)
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

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  Plant Anatomy Lab - What Parts are Food?
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  Lab In this plant anatomy lab, students learn about the structure of angiosperm plants and their diversity of plant forms. Students make claims about which parts of plants, fruits, and vegetables come from.
  NGSS Standard MS-LS1-4 (Animal Plant Structures)
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

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  Transcription and Translation Lab - From Gene to Protein
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  Lab In this transcription and translation lab, students learn how a gene provides the instructions for making a protein, and how a mutation in the gene for sickle cell hemoglobin can result in sickle cell anemia. Students use paper models to transcribe and translate the DNA into a protein.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-1 HS-LS3-1 HS-LS3-2 MS-LS3-1 (Mutations)
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

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  Sense of Taste Lab
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  Lab In this lab about the sense of smell and taste, students investigate how a person identifies different flavors of jellybeans. Students learn about the olfactory receptors and the olfactory bulb transmit information to the brain and how the brain interprets salt, sweet, sour, bitter, or savory flavors.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS) MS-LS1-8 (Brain)
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

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  Human Body Systems Word Search
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  Worksheet A word search with 31 terms related to the human body systems.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS) MS-LS1-8 (Brain)
  Published by Tracy Trimpe

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  Nervous System Crossword
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  Worksheet 17 question crossword puzzle about the nervous system.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-8 (Brain)
  Published by Tracy Trimpe

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  Skeletal & Muscular System Crossword
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  Worksheet 19 question crossword puzzle about the skeletal and muscular systems.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS)
  Published by Tracy Trimpe

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  Food for Thought Lab
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  Lab Students model how populations of different regions of the world compare with regards to numbers and food availabilty. Students will be divided by regions, and given food. The amount of food is based on statistics of each region.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS2-1 HS-LS2-2
  Published by Shannan Muskopf

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  Aerobic and Anaerobic Respiration Lab: Breathing and Holding Your Breath
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  Lab In this aerobic and anaerobic respiration lab, students learn a basic understanding of the regulation of breathing. Students then design an experiment to test whether changing oxygen and carbon dioxide levels in their bodies influence how long they can hold their breath.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 HS-LS1-3
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

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  Biological Acids and Bases Lab
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  Lab In this introductory acids and bases lab, students will determine the pH of common household acids and bases and transfer their knowledge about acids and bases to the human body's homeostasis. This lab is an easy hands-on biochemistry lesson to introduce homeostasis to students.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-3
  Published by NGSS Life Science

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  Enzyme Specificity Lab
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  Lab Students learn how enzymes function how they bind to specific substrates using lactose and sucrose. 3 mini experiments are included in this lesson plan.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-3
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty

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  The Immune Response Activity
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  Lab Students place paper signs on a red blanket and perform a sequence of events that mimic the humoral immune response.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS)
  Published by Margaret Mikel

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  Kindney - Nephron - Bowmen’s Capsule - AP
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  Worksheet Students color in the different parts of a kidney, nephron, and Bowmans capsule and then answer 5 analysis questions.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2 MS-LS1-3 (HBS)
  Published by Shannan Muskopf

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  Understanding Cancer
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  Multimedia This is a great information webpage about what is cancer, the kinds of cancer, screening methods, causes, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and so much more. The teacher notes is about myths and misconceptions around commonly asked questions about cancer.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-4 HS-LS3-2 HS-LS3-3
  Published by National Cancer Institute

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  Human Population Growth Lab - Spread of an Infectious Disease
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  Lab In this human population growth lab, students simulate the exponential growth of an infectious disease in a population. Students then discuss how human diseases spread and their exponential and logistic growth curves. Lastly, students graph the simulated results.
  NGSS Standard HS-LS1-2
  Published by Ingrid Waldron and Jennifer Doherty