Body Systems | NGSS
Issues and Science, Third Edition, Redesigned for the NGSS
How do we know if a medicine is safe and effective?
Students investigate questions about how systems in their bodies work together and what happens if one of those systems isn’t working properly. They also develop and use models to describe how their bodies turn food into energy that their bodies can use.
Students generate and answer questions such as: How do systems in the human body function? How do they interact? How can a problem in one system affect another system or systems?
Details at a Glance
- 4 Weeks | ~50 minute class periods
- 14 Activities
- Accommodates 5 classes, each with 8 groups of 4 students
- Consumables service 160 students
- Includes Spanish student materials
- Meets our criteria for supporting literacy
- Includes digital resources
- Developed in partnership with SEPUP & The Lawrence Hall of Science
- Includes assessment
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Evidence of Alignment
Issues and Science was developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in response to the need for high quality, three dimensional, phenomena driven curriculum. Quick details from this unit:
- Anchoring phenomenon: The human body is composed of body systems. Although each system has certain functions, the systems all interact in a healthy body.
- Investigative phenomena within the 14 activities connect content to the unit issue, How do we know if a medicine is safe and effective?
- This unit builds towards and assesses Performance Expectations LS1-3 and LS1-8.
Program Components
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Student Book
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Hardbound, high-quality student books are designed to last the length of an adoption for use year after year. Unlike a traditional texbook, the Student Book does not provide science content through reading and questions. Instead students are encouraged to question, investigate, and analyze in each of the heavily field-tested activities.
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