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🔬 7th Grade · ScienceMS-LS1-8Unit 2: Body systems

Senses and the nervous system

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🎯 Objective: Students explain how sensory receptors send messages to the brain.

Lesson outline

  1. Reaction-time lab.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Write.
  4. Exit: one pathway.

Lesson 3 of 3 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

MS-LS1-8

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), middle school — Life Science (discipline-specific model)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Argue the body is a system of interacting subsystems
  • Explain how senses send messages to the brain

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Body systems”

  1. Levels of organization
  2. Interacting systems
  3. Senses and the nervous system

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