Nervous System Lesson: Brain, Nerves & Body Systems Together, Grades 5-8

You touch a hot pan and your hand jumps back before you feel "ouch". How? This lesson builds the nervous system from that question: the brain, spinal cord and nerves, how a message travels from a sense organ to the brain and out to a muscle, and why a reflex goes through the spinal cord first.

What's inside

• 14 slides, with speaker notes on all 14
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page

Answer key included

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