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