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In today’s world of short attention spans and media overload, the ability to create visual representations to communicate data is an important skill...
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How Do Drugs Affect the Brain?
In this lesson, students continue to follow the story of Chris through the process of the scientific method as they gather important information about...
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In this lesson, students are introduced to a teenager named Chris, whose story unfolds with each subsequent lesson. The only known fact about Chris is...
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Thinking About the Future of Research
In this lesson, students look toward the future of research, specifically animal research. Students discover alternative methods to animal research an...
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In this lesson, students explore the importance of the scientific method and how it applies to both historic scientific discoveries and our every- day...
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In this lesson, students continue the process of inquiry as they follow the steps of the scientific method. Through exploration and discovery, they id...
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In this lesson, students explore four categories of neuroscience research—specifically, four approaches that are helping to understand drug addictio...
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In this lesson, students work in small groups to analyze and sort a variety of research discoveries. This unit illustrates in part the historical role...
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In this lesson, students look at and clarify their understanding of the concept of ethics. In the first activity, students develop a definition for et...
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In this lesson, students explore ethical considerations in research, focusing specifically on the example of the inclusion of animals in medical resea...
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This chapter contains the unit test and answer key as well as the essay question assessment Rubric for the book This is Your Brain. Other alternate as...
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This chapter contains supporting materials such as a Student Glossary, Parent/Guardian letter, resources for teachers, parents, and students for the b...
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In this activity, students will be able to describe the role decomposers play in an ecosystem and learn to identify organisms that live on the forest ...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about gravity. The probe is designed to see if students recognize that gravity ex...
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the size of the Moon. The probe is designed to find out if students understa...