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You and Your Body.
Delta Science Module (DSM) series. Hudson, N.H.: Delta Education, 1994.
Program Overview
The Delta Science Module (DSM) series has 51 life, physical, and earth science units for grades K-8 that emphasize science concepts, science content, and process skills. The series includes 12 modules for grades 5-6 and 8 modules for grades 6-8. Each requires about 3 to 4 weeks to complete and includes a teacher's guide and materials for a class of 32 students.
Teacher's Guide
Recommended grade level:
5-6.
In You and Your Body, students investigate several organ systems of the human body, as well as foods and nutrition. Activities include constructing models of an arm and a leg to simulate the role of muscles and joints in movement. Students also measure their own reaction times, pulse rate, and lung capacity. They observe and discuss the properties of skin and teeth. They test a variety of foods to determine the relative protein and fat content. Students investigate their senses of smell, touch, hearing, and sight.
You and Your Body includes 14 activities, which require about 17 class sessions. In addition to directions for activities, the teacher's guide provides a module overview, a schedule of activities, objectives for each activity, background information, materials management and preparation tips, sample answers to discussion questions, teaching suggestions, and reinforcement activities. Also included are reproducible activity sheets for student work and a performance-based assessment. A "connections" feature at the end of each activity provides suggestions for extending or applying the concepts addressed.
Key to Content Standards: 5-8 (see app. C)
UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESSES: Systems, order, and organization; evidence, models, and explanation; 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.
SCIENCE IN PERSONAL AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES: Personal health; science and technology in society.
Prices:
Teacher's guide (ISBN 0-87504-105-1), $27.95. Kit, $279.00. Refill package, $84.00.
Publisher/supplier:
Delta Education.
Materials:
Available locally, from commercial suppliers, or in kit.
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Muscles, Multi & Applied Sciences: Wellness: First Module in Bio-Related Technologies Unit.
Nutrition, Physical Sciences: Vitamin C Testing, ~ Science Investigations for Intermediate Students, Life Sciences: Food and Nutrition, ~ Middle School Life Science, ~ Food, Energy, and Growth, Multi & Applied Sciences: Integrated Science: Book Two, ~ Science 2000: Grade 6, ~ Science 2000: Science 1 (Grade 7), ~ Wellness: First Module in Bio-Related Technologies Unit.
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