How do the nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems work together to enable movement and respond to external stimuli?
Adaptive Perseverance: Students will work through complex concepts and apply feedback to enhance their understanding.
Learner’s Mindset: Students will explore new ideas about how body systems enable movement and adaptation to the environment.
Critical Thinking: Students will analyze the interdependence of the nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems and consider how health conditions impact these interactions.
How do the structures of the nervous system facilitate communication within the body?
In what ways do the skeletal and muscular systems interact to produce movement?
How can health conditions affect the functioning of the nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems?
Students will identify and describe the major structures of the nervous, skeletal, and muscular systems.
Students will explain the physiological functions of these structures and their roles in movement and response to stimuli.
Students will analyze case studies of health conditions related to each system and propose potential treatments.
Assessments
Diagrams and labeling of nervous, skeletal, and muscular system structures.
Lab activities demonstrating muscle contractions and nerve impulses.
Case study analysis and presentations on health conditions.
HS-LS1-2: Develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.
HS-LS1-3: Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.
HS-LS1-4: Use a model to illustrate the role of cellular division (mitosis) and differentiation in producing and maintaining complex organisms.
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