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The Skeletal System
Students identify bones off a skeleton during quizzes; assemble disarticulated skeletons; bird, frog and rat. They dissect frogs, remove the muscle tissue, and identify of bones.
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It's All About Me!
Students study the five major body system in this unit. They examine how to keep themselves healthy.
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Introduction to the Circulatory System
Fifth graders study the circulatory system. In this circulatory system, 5th graders participate in five stations with different activities at each station. Students discuss their findings from each station.
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Bones: The Body's Support
In this bones activity, students compare the axial and the appendicular skeletons. Students also review the bone components. This activity has 6 matching, 8 short answer, 4 fill in the blank, and 6 true or false questions.
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Human Obstacle Course
Students are in a group - half of them be an obstacle and half be moving around them, and then they switch. This engaging game promotes lots of movement.
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Volleyball Work It Out
Students practice volleyball skill-related activities while working on cardiovascular and muscular endurance.
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What is an Organism?
Sixth graders take a pre-test and summarize teacher's discussion of cells, tissues, organs in their notebooks. They read selections on organisms in their textbook and perform a dissection of a chicken drumstick with the thigh attached....
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The Cardiovascular System
In this health activity, students find the terms related to the cardiovascular system and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Body Organs: Matching
In this body organs worksheet, students match body organs with their functions. Students complete 19 matches total on this body organs worksheet.
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Skeletal System Crossword
In this skeletal system instructional activity, students complete a crossword about the skeletal system. Students insert 14 words into the crossword. An answer key is provided.
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Getting Up the Nerve
Students examine the basics of the nervous system through an interactive program. They discover how the brain is linked to muscle movement. They can test cells through the interactive program to see how it reacts to different stimuli.
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Bone Relay
Students reinforce their ability to identify bones of the body in a game setting using a Volleyball net, clothes pins, x-rays or pictures of human bones and joints.
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The Chemistry Connection
For this proteins worksheet, students read about the chemical compound, protein. Students determine where proteins are found in the body and how enzymes help the body react. Then students complete 3 short answer questions.
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Healthy Heart
Seventh graders experiment with their pulse rate. They investigate a beef heart and locate the route of blood flow and the chambers and discuss the function of each chamber. They discuss the circulatory system and compare theirs to the...
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Digestive System
In this digestive system learning exercise, students answer a list of true/ false questions. The students answer questions based on their knowledge of each process of the digestive system.
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Biomechanics of Joints
Young scholars examine the range of motion of your knee, wrist and shoulder and observe that these body parts act like different types of mechanical joints.
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Health: The Skeleton with a Message
Students identify human muscles and bones from a cardboard skeleton, named "Mr. Skelly." Using dialog balloons as props, the teacher holds up advice from Mr. Skelly, such as noting he drinks milk to keep his bones strong. The...
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Frog Olympics
Pupils explore the attributes of amphibians. In this physical frog biology lesson, students discover facts about the muscles of frogs and then play 2 games that require them to move like frogs.
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Making Mummies
Students examine how mummies are made. In this ancient mummification lesson, students discover types of mummies and discuss the environments naturallly preserve bodies. Students research noteable mummy discoveries and present their...
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Starvation in the Ghettos
Learners investigate how human beings survive under camp and ghetto life's extreme condition while understanding the USRDA requirements. They recognize the suffering and loss of life due to the lack of adequate nutrition.
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Breathing
In this breathing activity, students will review vocabulary words and topics relating to the lungs and the parts of the breathing system in humans. Students will explore how exercise effects the carbon dioxide that is exhaled. This...
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Vertebrate Skeletons
In this biology worksheet, students examine the human skeleton and then classify animal bones according to their similar function.
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Circulatory System,
Fourth graders study the components and physiology of the human circulatory system.