Coping with changes
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A lesson plan for Grades 7 and 9–12 Biology
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- Appropriate grades
- 7 and 9–12
- Subjects
- science (biology and life science)
- Provider
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
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The purpose of this lesson is to understand how the nervous system allows us to learn, remember, and cope with changes in the environment.
In grades 3–5, students start viewing the body as one whole system, as one whole organism. In the 6th grade and up, students should start to understand how organs and organ systems work together. For instance, the brain is part of the nervous system and works in conjunction with neurons (cells). The nervous system works with all other body systems, such as the musculoskeletal system.
The activities in this lesson introduce the nervous system, both in parts and as a whole. By learning about the whole system, students will understand that the brain, spinal cord, and nerve cells are at the root of all other body functions.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Science (2005)
Grade 7
- Goal 4: The learner will conduct investigations, use models, simulations, and appropriate technologies and information systems to build an understanding of the complementary nature of the human body system.
- Objective 4.01: Analyze how human body systems interact to provide for the needs of the human organism:
- Musculoskeletal.
- Cardiovascular.
- Endocrine and Nervous.
- Digestive and Circulatory.
- Excretory.
- Reproductive.
- Respiratory.
- Immune.
- Nervous system.
- Objective 4.03: Explain how the structure of an organ is adapted to perform specific functions within one or more systems.
- Liver.
- Heart.
- Lung.
Brain. - Stomach.
- Kidney.
- Objective 4.04: Evaluate how systems in the human body help regulate the internal environment.
- Objective 4.01: Analyze how human body systems interact to provide for the needs of the human organism:
Grades 9–12 — Biology
- Goal 4: The learner will develop an understanding of the unity and diversity of life.
- Objective 4.02: Analyze the processes by which organisms representative of the following groups accomplish essential life functions including:
- Unicellular protists, annelid worms, insects, amphibians, mammals, non vascular plants, gymnosperms and angiosperms.
- Transport, excretion, respiration, regulation, nutrition, synthesis, reproduction, and growth and development.
- Objective 4.05: Analyze the broad patterns of animal behavior as adaptations to the environment.
- Innate behavior.
- Learned behavior.
- Social behavior.
- Objective 4.02: Analyze the processes by which organisms representative of the following groups accomplish essential life functions including:
