This video helps children maintain balance in their lives by finding their own physical balance. Following along with their instructor, children use leg and core strength to do multiple poses to achieve physical and mental balance. [3:49]
In this lesson students will learn that the food they are eating contain a variety of things such as nutrients, vitamins, fats, and sugars.
Download and read Baruch Blumberg's Nobel Lecture entitled "Australia antigen and the biology of hepatitis B." This lecture, originally given December 13, 1976, is available in PDF format.
In this lesson students will explore many challenges using beanbags. Locomotor as well as manipulatives and non-manipulatives are involved. Students will enhance their knowledge of physical fitness skills as well as related terminology.
In just one day, the heart pumps approximately 1,900 gallons of blood through the body! Today, see if you can move water as fast as your heart can move blood!
A storybook about the bedtime routine of a young child. Includes audio readaloud feature in 17 additional languages, although text is in English.
How do scientists stay safe when they work with poisonous fumes and powerful acids? For November's After School Science Hour, Karla Arredondo and Ladan Khandel from Berkeley Lab's Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) Division will share how they help scientists carry out their research safely. Get a behind the scenes look into a lab's safety equipment from fume hoods to hazmat suits. Afterwards learn how to create a pollution catcher to test air qualit
Help your students think critically about the dynamic and changing nature of what it means to be a leader. Below you'll find resources that will assist and encourage your students to explore their value systems, promote positive leadership discussions around school, and embolden your students to think beyond the traditional notions of leadership. Bring these Leadership Principles into your classroom by sharing biographies of influential individuals around the world, watching speeches from world leaders, and discovering supplemental lesson materials to assess understanding and prompt classroom discussion.
This is an impressive site about beta-thalassemia. The disease is caused when the body cannot make an important blood protein. You can find information about causes, diagnosis, treatment, lifestyle, and inheritance at this interactive multimedia site.
What is autism? How does it affect behavior? Students will find evidence of the author's tone or purpose for writing the article, as well as hints that show evidence of opinion. Includes a video clip from the movie "Rainman", and an article about autism to read and annotate.
Learn the names of bike parts in this book. Includes audio narration in seven additional languages with text in English.
Learn how to stay safe when you ride a bicycle. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
Elmo sings a song about growing up! This video highlights the milestones children experience as they get older, like catching a ball or putting on socks. [2:34]
A story about what it is like to have a big sister. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
Christine Herrmann, PhD, discusses the history of disease research, infectious agents (or pathogens) that cause disease and their modes of transmission, and ways to reduce the spread of disease. [17:07]
This video introduces a set of lessons in physical activity based on an exhibition at the Children's Museum of Houston. The lessons can be adapted and can provide inspiration to help kids be physically active. The complete teacher's guide can be downloaded, or individual lessons. [3:02]
Students learn about the immune system and complete a crossword puzzle to practice vocabulary. The lesson and a set of PowerPoint slides can be downloaded. Includes an instructional video on immune system vocabulary terms [7:13]
This Kindergarten through 5th grade Kids in Motion activity surrounds a theme children love-their birthday! Surrounding a theme children love, their birthdays, students will exercise, move and stretch in way you might while celebrating a birthday. With the teacher as a model and director, students use various psychomotor skills to exercise their way through a birthday celebration. [9:56]
This video segment adapted from NOVA, features cancer researcher Dr. Judah Folkman and describes his idea about how tumors grow inside the body. Dr. Folkman's idea focuses on angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels. Experiments were designed to test his central hypothesis and thus prove the support mechanism behind tumors. [5:08]
The body consists of arms, hands, fingers, feet, etc. Demonstrate how to measure with a crayon. Each student will create a book about themselves using the book template.