Topic: Human Body Activities

  • Human Body Systems: Let’s Explore Our Skeletal System

    Human Body Systems: Let’s Explore Our Skeletal System

    Students will love learning about the Skeletal System with this complete resource! This unit has it all! It includes leveled reading passages, related activities, vocabulary posters, organizers, cloze passage, comprehension questions, and a 5-page flip book all about our bones!

    This packet includes many interactive activities and learning opportunities for students with reading passages about:

    ✔ Our Amazing Bodies

    ✔ What is a Cell?

    ✔ Our Skeleton is like a House

    ✔ Groovy Bones

    ✔ Bones are Tough Stuff!

    ✔ Protect Your Teeth

    ✔ Check out this Joint

    ✔ Appendicular & Axial Skeletons

    ✔ Plus students will Meet Robert Hooke, a brilliant scientist who first discovered “the cell” and complete a fact booklet.

    Students can apply their knowledge and show what they know with these connection activities:

    ✔ Comprehension Questions

    ✔ Skeletal System Organizers

    ✔ Label a Cell Diagram

    ✔ True/False Questions

    ✔ Cloze Passage

    ✔ Check Out This Joint Flaps

    ✔ Name the Missing Bones

    ✔ Calcium Needed Activity

    ✔ Vocabulary Posters

    ✔ Vocabulary Match-up

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ PLUS a 5 Page Flip Book

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    There are three main activities:

    Read. Connect. Create.

    Vocabulary:

    Introduce the six vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Reading:

    Introduce the unit by having students answer (predict) the questions in the anticipatory set. Come back at the end of the unit to check and correct their answers. Next, have students read the informational articles about the skeletal system, our bones, and joints. Then complete the organizers and comprehension questions. Have students read the character study where they will meet Robert Hooke. He was the first scientist to discover cells.

    Interactive Activities:

    There are lots of hands-on activities in this pack depending on the age of your students and time allotted for this unit.

    ✔ Calcium Needed Activity

    ✔ Label the Cell Diagram

    ✔ True/False Questions

    ✔ Appendicular & Axial Skeleton Coloring Activity

    ✔ Name the Missing Bones

    ✔ Check out this Joint Flip-Flaps

    ✔ Robert Hooke Character Study & Facts

    ✔ 5-Page Flip Book

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    Have students complete the Flipbook and build it page by page. I usually have them do one page at each center or learning station. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the booklet. Lastly, they cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip-up books can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12×18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover.

    ✔ Great for Core Knowledge 3rd Grade

  • Human Body Systems: Let’s Explore our Respiratory System

    Human Body Systems: Let’s Explore our Respiratory System

    Students will love learning about the Respiratory System with this complete resource! This unit has it all! It includes informational articles, related activities, vocabulary posters, organizers, cloze passage, comprehension questions, and a 5-page flip book all about respiration!

    This packet includes many interactive activities and learning opportunities for students with informational Articles on:

    ✔ Our Amazing Bodies

    ✔ What is a Cell?

    ✔ The Respiratory System

    ✔ What is Respiration?

    ✔ The Parts of the Respiratory System

    ✔ Your Lungs are Amazing!

    ✔ Breathing in Action

    ✔ No Carbon Dioxide Wanted!

    ✔ Keeping Your Lungs Healthy

    Students can apply their knowledge and show what they know with these connection activities:

    ✔ Comprehension Questions

    ✔ Graphic Organizers

    ✔ Label the Cell Diagram

    ✔ Three Helpers of Respiration

    ✔ Label the Diagram of the Lungs

    ✔ Respiratory Cloze Passage

    ✔ Cut-and-Sort the Facts

    ✔ Meet Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

    ✔ Meet Elizabeth Blackwell

    ✔ Vocabulary Posters

    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ 5-Page Flip Book

    ✔ Answer Keys

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    Read.Connect.Create.

    Vocabulary:

    Introduce the 6 vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Reading:

    Have students read the informational articles about the human body, cells, and the Respiratory system. Then complete the organizers and comprehension questions. Have students read the character study where they will meet Elizabeth Blackwell who was the first female doctor. Students will also meet Anton Van Leeuwenhoek who invented the microscope.

    Interactive Activities:

    There are lots of hands-on activities in this pack depending on the age of your students and time allotted for this unit.

    ✔ Label the Cell Diagram

    ✔ Three Helpers of Respiration

    ✔ Respiration Organizer

    ✔ Label the Diagram of the Lungs

    ✔ How it Works

    ✔ Cloze Passage

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ 5-Page Flip Book

    Have students complete the Flipbook and build it page by page. I usually have them do one page at each center or learning station. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the booklet. Lastly, they cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flipbooks can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12×18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover.

    ✔ Great Tool for Core Knowledge

  • Human Body System: Let’s Explore our Nervous System

    Human Body System: Let’s Explore our Nervous System

    Students will love learning about the Nervous System with this complete resource! This unit has it all! It includes informational articles, related activities, vocabulary posters, organizers, cloze passage, comprehension questions, and a 5-page flipbook all about our bones!

    This packet includes many interactive activities and learning opportunities for students with informational Articles on:

    ✔ Our Nervous System

    ✔ Two Parts of a System

    ✔ Brainy Bits (Parts)

    ✔ Rapid Reflexes

    ✔ Left-Brained or Right?

    ✔ Getting on my Nerves

    Students will meet Rita Levi-Montalcini, a brilliant scientist who discovered Nerve Growth Factor.

    This unit includes many interactive student activities for students to connect to the information and show what they know with:

    ✔ Comprehension Questions

    ✔ Nervous System Organizers

    ✔ Label the Cell Diagram

    ✔ Parts of the Brain Cut-n-Sort Activity

    ✔ Our Brains Organizer

    ✔ Color the Brainy Facts Activity

    ✔ Meet Rita Levi-Montalcini

    ✔ Character Fact Booklet

    ✔ Vocabulary Posters

    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps (great for science notebooks)

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ Vocabulary Match-up

    ✔ PLUS a 5-Page Flip Book

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    There are three main activities:

    Read. Connect. Create.

    Vocabulary:

    Introduce the six vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Reading:

    Introduce the unit by having students answer (predict) the questions in the anticipatory set. Come back at the end of the unit to check and correct their answers. Next, have students read the informational articles about the human body, cells, nervous system and our nerves. Then complete the organizers and comprehension questions. Have students read the character study where they will meet Rita Levi-Montalcini.

    Interactive Activities:

    There are lots of hands-on activities in this pack depending on the age of your students and time allotted for this unit.

    ✔ Comprehension Questions

    ✔ Nervous System Organizers

    ✔ Cell Diagram

    ✔ Parts of the Brain Cut-n-Sort Activity

    ✔ Our Brains Organizers

    ✔ Color the Facts Activity

    ✔ Rita Levi-Montalcini Character Study & Facts

    ✔ 5-Page Flip Book

    Have students complete the Flipbook and build it page by page. I usually have them do one page at each center or learning station. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the booklet. Lastly, they cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip-up books can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12×18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover.

    ✔ Great tool for Core Knowledge

  • Human Body Systems: Let’s Explore our Digestive System

    Human Body Systems: Let’s Explore our Digestive System

    Students will love learning about the Digestive System with this complete resource! This unit has it all! It includes informational articles, hands-on activities, vocabulary posters, organizers, cloze passage, comprehension questions, and a 5-page flip book all about digestion!

    This packet includes many interactive activities and learning opportunities for students with informational Articles on:

    ✔ Our Amazing Bodies

    ✔ What is a Cell?

    ✔ The Digestive System

    ✔ What is Digestion?

    ✔ Down it Goes!

    ✔ Three Helpers!

    ✔ All Done Now!

    Plus students will meet Florence Nightingale and Louis Pasteur and complete a fact booklet.

    Students can apply their knowledge and show what they know with these connection activities:

    ✔ Comprehension Questions

    ✔ Graphic Organizers

    ✔ Label a Cell Diagram

    ✔ Cut and Sort the Helpers of Digestion

    ✔ Cloze Passage

    ✔ Summarize the Digestion Process

    ✔ Name the Parts of Digestion

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ Vocabulary Posters

    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps

    ✔ PLUS a 5 Page Flip Book

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    Vocabulary:

    Introduce the 6 vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Reading:

    Have students read the informational articles about the human body, cells, and the digestive system. Then complete the organizers and comprehension questions. Have students read the character study where they will meet Florence Nightingale and Louis Pasteur.

    Interactive Activities:

    There are lots of hands-on activities in this pack depending on the age of your students and time allotted for this unit.

    ✔ Three Helpers of Digestion

    ✔ Fact or Fiction Activity

    ✔ Label the Cell Diagram

    ✔ Jobs of our Stomach

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ Florence Nightingale Character Study

    ✔ Louis Pasteur Character Study

    ✔ 5-Page Flip Book

    Have students complete the Flipbook and build it page by page. I usually have them do one page at each center or learning station. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the booklet. Lastly, they cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip-up books can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12×18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover.

    ✔ Great tool for Core Knowledge