LEARN NC

K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

Fascinate-U Children's Museum
Through touch and play young students learn about health and science topics at this children's museum.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Millis Regional Health Education Center
Visitors are sure to have fun while they learn about the human body and how to stay healthy at this health education facility.
Format: article/field trip opportunity
Comparative anatomy: A continuum
In groups, students will design a presentation that will trace the development of an organ system through the major phyla of the animal kingdom looking for the relationships between structure and function by documenting adaptations.
Format: lesson plan (grade 9–12 English Language Development, Information Skills, and Science)
By Joan Warner and Melissa Thibault.
Estuaries in North Carolina: A primer
Estuaries are places near the coast where freshwater and saltwater mix. Influenced by ocean forces yet partly sheltered from them, estuaries have unique and fascinating ecologies. This article explains what estuaries are, their geology and role in the larger...
By Waverly Harrell and Jennifer Godwin-Wyer.
Midwives and herbal medicine
In North Carolina in the New Nation, page 2.3
Excerpts from the medicine recipe book of Rachel Allen, who lived near Snow Camp, North Carolina, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, show how residents of the backcountry treated wounds, illness, and disease.
Commentary and sidebar notes by L. Maren Wood.

Resources on the web

Food and the digestive system
This Science NetLinks lesson is the first of a three part series. Most of this lesson will focus on what nutrients are needed to do particular tasks for the body. More specifically, where the nutrients come from, their different forms, and then their importance... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 4 Healthful Living and Science)
Provided by: Science Netlinks
Virtual Body
Explore the human body including the brain, heart, digestive system and skeletal structure. Know it all? Test your knowledge using the Organize Your Organs and Build a Skeleton activities. (Learn more)
Format: website/activity
Provided by: MEDtropolis
The busy brain
The purpose of this lesson is to understand how the brain receives and sends signals to the body. This lesson focuses more on answering questions and helping students realize the “job” of the brain and the nervous system in regard to the body as... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 7 Science)
Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
Got Broccoli?
This Science NetLinks lesson encapsulates what students have learned about nutrients, their different forms, and their importance for particular tasks in the body. It works in conjunction with Why We Need Food and Good Food, Good Health, which are Science... (Learn more)
Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Healthful Living and Science)
Provided by: ReadWriteThink