Use the links below to access these teacher-tested science lessons. Note that these are only a few of the many resources available at the Life Science Teaching Resource Community (see link below):
- Physiology Activities for the K-12 Classroom – This is a collection of inexpensive activities from previous PhUn Week events. Try them with your students!
- Animals’ Needs: This unit allows students to have fun learning about food sources, healthy eating, safe food preparation and handling, food groups and overall nutrition. In this activity, student teams observe a worm model and live worm, create a worm terrarium, and observe worm behavior over time.
- Skin Wise: In this unit, students learn about their skin and the importance of protecting it. Great embedded math skills building!
- Water Any Body?: In this unit, students learn about the water their body takes in and releases each day and how water is essential to human health.
- Lungometer: This activity allows students to measure their lung capacity using everyday materials. This one is always fun…great for an outdoor lesson.
- Healthy Heart Experiemnts: Online simulations of simple physiology experiments.
- Find additional resouces in the Life Science Teaching Resource Community (see link in Resources below).
Use the Careers in Physiology Website link at top of page to:
- Learn more about physiology
- Find out what physiologists do
- Meet some interesting physiologists.