Homeostasis Worksheets

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        Homeostasis worksheets and feedback loop labs that are designed for high school, middle school, and elementary school life science teachers. NGSS Life Science offers many great science lessons. Click the Free Lesson Plan (PDF) link below or become a member to get access to the answer key and editable file. Free types of evolution curriculum includes:
  • Project
    Human Body Systems Disorder Project
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    High School 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
  • Lab Experiment
    Design a Homeostasis Lab
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    High School 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
  • Lab Experiment
    Plant Growth Homeostasis Lab
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    High School 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
  • Lab Experiment
    Characteristics of Life Lab
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    High School 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
  • Lab Experiment
    Circulatory System Lab - Heart Rate Regulation
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    High School 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
  • Lab Experiment
    Biological Acids and Bases Lab
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    High School 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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Homeostasis Concepts

  • Homeostasis - setpoint.
  • Feedback Mechanisms - negative feeback mechanisms, positive feedback mechanisms.
  • Feedback Loops - stimulus, response, effector, receptor sensor, control center.
  • Hormones - amino acid based hormones, steroid homones, thyroid hormones, receptor proteins.