This lesson explains reproduction to students using a PowerPoint presentation and includes a teacher’s resource with sample definitions and language that can be used. Students then receive cards and try to arrange themselves in the correct order of a 28-day menstrual cycle showing where sperm would need to be present in order for a pregnancy to occur as well as how methods of contraception can prevent pregnancy. The homework is watching a short video about pregnancy myths and answering questions on a worksheet.

Students learn about the anatomical structure of the human eye and how humans see light, as well as some causes of color blindness. They conduct experiments as an example of research to gather information. During their investigations, they test other students' vision, gathering data and measurements about when objects appear blurry. These topics help students prepare to design solutions to an overarching engineering challenge question.

Students learn more about how light sensors work, reinforcing their similarities to the human sense of sight. They look at the light sensing process incoming light converted to electrical signals sent to the brain through the human eye anatomy as well as human-made electrical light sensors. A mini-activity, which uses LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT intelligent bricks and light sensors gives students a chance to investigate how light sensors function in preparation for the associated activity involving the light sensors and taskbots. A PowerPoint® presentation explains stimulus-to-response pathways, sensor fundamentals, and details about the LEGO light sensor, including its two modes of gathering data and what its numerical value readings mean. Students take pre/post quizzes and watch a short online video. This lesson and its associated activity enable students to gain a deeper understanding of how robots can take sensor input and use it to make decisions via programming.

Through this unit, students act as engineers who are given the challenge to design laparoscopic surgical tools. After learning about human anatomy and physiology of the abdominopelvic cavity, especially as it applies to laparoscopic surgery, students learn about the mechanics of elastic solids, which is the most basic level of material behavior. Then, they explore the world of fluids and learn how fluids react to forces. Next, they combine their understanding of the mechanics of solids and fluids to understand viscoelastic materials, such as those found in the human body. Finally, they learn about tissue mechanics, including how collagen, elastin and proteoglycans give body tissues their unique characteristics. In the culminating hands-on activity, student teams design their own prototypes of laparoscopic surgical robots remotely controlled, camera-toting devices that must fit through small incisions, inspect organs and tissue for disease, obtain biopsies, and monitor via ongoing wireless image-taking. They use a (homemade) synthetic abdominal cavity simulator to test and iterate the prototype devices.

A Guide to Becoming a Buzzing Naturalist

Short Description:
This buzzing guide for naturalists introduces the young and the young at heart to bumble bees in Cape Breton. Through interactive quizzes, videos, and text, readers learn all about bumble bees in their community and discover what they can do to protect them.

Long Description:
Bumble bees of Unama’ki: A Guide to Becoming a Buzzing Naturalist is an online guide targeted at the young and the young at heart naturalist that is interested in learning more about bumble bees in Cape Breton. Throughout this online Guide, you’ll learn about bumble bee life cycles, anatomy structure, identification, threats, and more. Dive in and flip through pages of bee-utiful bumble bee photographs, terrible bee jokes, and endless bee puns. Test your knowledge with interactive quizzes and find out how to get involved in bumble bee conservation efforts.

Word Count: 7406

Included H5P activities: 19

(Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

In this lesson, students will deepen their understanding of gender expression through the use of anchor texts and a video. They will apply their understanding through a self-portrait that reflects an iteration of their gender expression.

This lesson is designed to help students learn to access health care on their own.

Students are presented with an engineering challenge that asks them to develop a material and model that can be used to test the properties of aortic valves without using real specimens. Developing material that is similar to human heart valves makes testing easier for biomedical engineers because they can test new devices or ideas on the model valve instead of real heart valves, which can be difficult to obtain for research. To meet the challenge, students are presented with a variety of background information, are asked to research the topic to learn more specific information pertaining to the challenge, and design and build a (prototype) product. After students test their products and make modifications as needed, they convey background and product information in the form of portfolios and presentations to the potential buyer.

This lesson details the basics of healthy relationships: what they are and how to recognize them. It also covers consent, boundaries, power dynamics, red flags, and characteristics of different kinds of relationships. Students will engage in discussions and activities in which they will identify characteristics and assess the health of relationships in brief scenarios.

This interactive module introduces the anatomy of the immune system and walks through the timeline of a typical immune response.

The timeline includes the differences between the first time a pathogen is encountered versus subsequent infections, including an explanation of how vaccines work. Different tabs, videos, images, questions, and a detailed glossary of terms allow this resource to be explored at varying levels of depth depending on the class. Refer to the “Educator Resources” tab in the Click & Learn for implementation suggestions.

The glossary and illustrations in the Click & Learn are also provided as slide decks; you may make copies of these slides and adapt them to your classroom.

The “Resource Google Folder” link directs to a Google Drive folder of resource documents in the Google Docs format. Not all downloadable documents for the resource may be available in this format. The Google Drive folder is set as “View Only”; to save a copy of a document in this folder to your Google Drive, open that document, then select File → “Make a copy.” These documents can be copied, modified, and distributed online following the Terms of Use listed in the “Details” section below, including crediting BioInteractive.

Meet ROBO!As a simple, environment and design-friendly robot, ROBO is your hub to create, contribute, and learn through fun and unique activities. From simple self-regulated learning prompts to simple programming to making your own block-based or JavaScript code to personalise this robotic woody friend, ROBO focus on supporting your learning experience and learner progression. This manual will give you everything you need to get started!Learning Objectives:I know what ROBO can doI can play with ROBOI can use ROBO to set a timer to learn, take a break, and motivate myselfI can remix some of ROBO functions

This video describes the role of the brain in regulating body temperature and how sometimes fever is employed to fight off infection.

(This case study was added to OER Commons as one of a batch of over 700. It has relevant information which may include medical imagery, lab results, and history where relevant. A link to the final diagnosis can be found at the end of the case study for review. The first paragraph of the case study -- typically, but not always the clinical presentation -- is provided below.)

The mother of this fetus was a 24 year old G1 P0 woman with multiple medical problems. These include cerebral palsy, mixed hearing loss, a history of seizures, history of a heart murmur, surgery for cleft lip, and asthma. The current pregnancy was without complications through the first two trimesters. An 18 week anatomy scan was unremarkable. A fetal echocardiogram at 18 weeks was also unremarkable. Early in the third trimester, a clinical concern for size less than dates arose. An ultrasound at 30 weeks found an enlarged fetal heart. No evidence of hydrops was identified, however. On a routine clinic visit at 32 2/7 weeks gestation, the mother complained of no fetal movement for the previous two days. A bedside ultrasound confirmed an intrauterine fetal demise. Labor was induced, with delivery of the stillborn female fetus.

This resource is a video abstract of a research paper created by Research Square on behalf of its authors. It provides a synopsis that's easy to understand, and can be used to introduce the topics it covers to students, researchers, and the general public. The video's transcript is also provided in full, with a portion provided below for preview:

"Microbiomes share an intimate relationship with the organisms they colonize, even across evolutionary timescales. That’s the basis of a theory called phylosymbiosis. Phylosymbiosis holds that microbial communities evolve as their host evolves and has been confirmed to exist for certain insects and mammals. Researchers recently tested whether that relationship holds among fish. Approximately 420 million years ago, fish made an epic evolutionary split into elasmobranchs -- creatures with all-cartilage skeletons -- and bony fish. Since then, the two have accumulated vast differences in anatomy and physiology, most notably in their skin. That’s where the researchers zeroed in. For a small sample of fish, they used metagenomics to compare the makeup of microbial communities living on fish skin. Between fishes considered closely or distantly related in evolutionary terms, findings revealed that elasmobranchs displayed patterns of phylosymbiosis, while bony fish did not..."

The rest of the transcript, along with a link to the research itself, is available on the resource itself.

Students are introduced to engineering, specifically to biomedical engineering and the engineering design process, through a short lecture and an associated hands-on activity in which they design their own medical devices for retrieving foreign bodies from the ear canal. Through the lesson, they learn the basics of ear anatomy and how ear infections occur and are treated. Besides antibiotic treatment, the most common treatment for chronic ear infections is the insertion of ear tubes to drain fluid from the middle ear space to relieve pressure on the ear drum. Medical devices for this procedure, a very common children's surgery, are limited, sometimes resulting in unnecessary complications from a simple procedure. Thus, biomedical engineers must think creatively to develop new solutions (that is, new and improved medical devices/instruments) for inserting ear tubes into the ear drum. The class learns the engineering design process from this ear tube example of a medical device design problem. In the associated activity, students explore biomedical engineering on their own by designing prototype medical devices to solve another ear problem commonly experienced by children: the lodging of a foreign body (such as a pebble, bead or popcorn kernel) in the ear canal. The activity concludes by teams sharing and verbally analyzing their devices.

Following the steps of the iterative engineering design process, student teams use what they learned in the previous lessons and activity in this unit to research and choose materials for their model heart valves and test those materials to compare their properties to known properties of real heart valve tissues. Once testing is complete, they choose final materials and design and construct prototype valve models, then test them and evaluate their data. Based on their evaluations, students consider how they might redesign their models for improvement and then change some aspect of their models and retest aiming to design optimal heart valve models as solutions to the unit's overarching design challenge. They conclude by presenting for client review, in both verbal and written portfolio/report formats, summaries and descriptions of their final products with supporting data.

In this capstone course students will use new and previous knowledge about drug delivery to design capstone innovation project. Throughout the course students will engage in learning opportunities in drug delivery, gain a better understanding of anatomy and physiology related to drug delivery, and participate in a self-directed project to solve a problem. This learning tool will guide students through the process of understanding drug delivery and how drug delivery is applied to treating infectious diseases. DDF’s capstone project is aligned with NGSS and Common Core standards in math and ELA core curriculum. The learning activities, final project, and mid-unit assessments are provided to the teacher and students in the form of eLearning readings, quizzes, interactive tools, and presentation outlines. Students using this module should find success in self-directed learning, though the of use additional resources in the community, at school, at DDF, and in scientific literature, may help them achieve their goal.For more information about expanded learning opportunities, questions about the program, and assistance with learning tools, please contact our DDF eLearning Project Manager Lindsay Malcolm: lmalcolm@tsrlinc.com

ProblemSpark has the ability to use different devices, i.e., smartphone, tablets, laptops and desktops. However, when you are meeting with your team, some members are in different locations on their way to the meeting. Your Spark board can connect and transfer connnections from one device into a meeting room.SubjectManual Paring to Spark BoardSpark DemoObjectiveTo set up Spark connection to a meeting located in a centralized place.To demonstate how to transfer a started meeting on a moble device into a meeting where the Spark board is located.Materials Spark boardMobile devicesCompetencies/ Core4 (WRITTEN/ORAL) COMMUNICATION XXXINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & QUANTITATIVE LITERACY XXX

By the end of this section, you will be able to:Identify the parts of a typical leafDescribe the internal structure and function of a leafCompare and contrast simple leaves and compound leavesList and describe examples of modified leaves