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LIFE SCIENCE LS2

What is Going On Inside Me?

Students begin the unit with the Anchoring Phenomenon of viewing cheek cells and skin cells under a microscope; this prompts them to ask questions about what is going on inside their bodies, allowing them to do all the things they do. Investigative Phenomena include investigations of the various body systems and ties them all together. Students investigate and analyze data to determine the characteristics shared by all living things: growth, reproduction, metabolism, and response to stimuli.

Lessons in This Topic

1. How Do I Do the Things I Do?

2. Using the Microscope. 

3. Where Else Can We Find Cells?

4. Am I a System?

5. What Is Breaking Food Down Inside Me?

6. How Does Food Move in My Body?

7. The Case of the Missing Oxygen

8. Growth and Repair

9. Can My Systems Keep Up the Pace?

10. How Does All This Energize and Repair Me?

11. How Does All This Work Together Inside Me?

12. What Is Going on Inside Me?

13.  Reproductive System