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The Human Body: How Can I Maintain and Care for Myself?
New York Science, Technology and Society Education Project (NYSTEP). Problem-Solving Activities for Middle-Level Science series. Albany, N.Y.: NYSTEP, 1995.
Program Overview
The Problem-Solving Activities for Middle-Level Science series consists of 8 stand-alone modules. Each module contains 2 to 6 units focused on technological and/or ethical aspects of issues involving science, technology, and society. The series was designed so that teachers might select modules and units that address local needs and draw on local community resources. A module requires 3 to 8 weeks to complete, depending on the units selected. Supplies and equipment may be required that are not typically part of a school's science inventory.
Teacher's Guide
Recommended grade level:
7-8.
The Human Body introduces students to basic human biology and helps them learn how their own informed choices can impact their health and longevity. During the module, students research the structure and systems of the human body, determining which parts and functions can be replaced by technological devices. They work with models of the genetic code and chromosomes to understand how each person is unique. They construct growth curves for themselves and compare them to generalized growth curves. Students also investigate how the number of hours of sleep they get can affect their behavior; design and carry out experiments to see how certain substances protect skin from the harmful effects of sunlight; and participate in a student-run health fair. Several of the activities allow students to design experiments as well as do statistics (mean, median, mode, and range).
Designed to serve either as a starting point or culmination for a study of the body, the unit is built around the idea that each student plans and develops a personal manual of information about caring for his or her body. As students complete the 9 activities in the unit, they gain the information and skills they need to complete their manual.
The Human Body is divided into 3 units; the first and third units are intended to be required, and the second is intended as a set of optional activities. Each unit has directions for its activities, a bibliography, interdisciplinary connections (to technology, social studies, language arts, mathematics, health, home and career skills, arts, and foreign languages/culture), and suggestions for extensions. A list of resources for the study of adolescence and the human body also is provided.
Key to Content Standards: 5-8 (see app. C)
UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES: Systems, order, and organization; change, constancy, and measurement; form and function.
SCIENCE AS INQUIRY: Abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry; understandings about scientific inquiry.
LIFE SCIENCE: Structure and function in living systems; reproduction and heredity; regulation and behavior.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Understandings about science and technology.
SCIENCE IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Personal health; risks and benefits.
Prices:
Teacher's guide: In New York State, free with attendance at workshop; outside New York, $7.
Publisher/supplier:
New York Science, Technology and Society Education Project.
Materials:
Available locally, or from commercial suppliers.
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