Educators

Discover SCIENCE with Dr. Bear (SCIENCE) provides educators with pre-reviewed lesson plans for hands-on arts and sciences lessons about different health topics that include suggested links for NGSS standard connections.

Standard	Lesson	Connection	Extension Activity
LS1.A LS2.B LS4.B	An Air Affair Brush Up on Breathing Mucus Madness The Nose Knows	As humans, we use our lungs to take in air. How are our lungs similar or different to other organisms’ lungs? How do plants take in air?	(Social justice opportunity): Look at asthma rates in different areas. Why do some communities have higher rates of asthma than other places? How is the environment affecting how people can breathe? (Suggested background on this topic)
LS1.A LS1.D ESS3.A	From Fork to Stomach	Make observations on what happens in the “stomach” bag to describe what happens during the digestion process..	Discuss how food production works prior to our digesting it. Can discuss human’s impact on the environment based on diet.
LS1.A LS4.D	Let’s Make Poop	Compare and contrast the different types of things animals and humans like to eat. Why do some animals eat different things? What are the health benefits of different kinds of foods?	What are the internal structures that are involved in a human’s digestion process?
LS1.A LS1.D LS3.A	Print Sprint	How similar or different are your fingerprints from your parents’?