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Our Amazing Skeleton

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the skeleton, about the number of and types of bones in the body, and how outer space affects astronauts' bones. They discover how to take care of their bones here on Earth to prevent osteoporosis, or, weakening of the...
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Puppet on a String: An Engaging Look at Movement

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine how muscles can work together with joints.  In this movement lesson students use a marionette to observe how muscles work. 
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Weight Training

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students begin writing their individual weight training programs after a discussion of body types, and principles of training, and an anatomy game for a review of muscles. Students have a reflection writing on goals for assignment.
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Organs and What They Do - Lecture

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students read information about the internal organs and body systems. In this organs and systems lesson, students read descriptions of the heart, lungs, stomach, small and large intestine, and liver and gall bladder. Students study...
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Protection, Support, and Locomotion

For Students 7th - 8th
In this skeletal system worksheet, students will read a graphic organizer and complete 1 short answer question about the five functions of the skeleton. Then students will use a graphic organizer about muscle types to fill in a table...
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Beams and Bones

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn how parts of the human body interact and how bones and muscles work together.
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Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Knee Joint

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students examine human anatomy with a focus on the knee joint. In groups, they research the chemical makeup of human bones and explain the different types of joints found in the body. To end the instructional activity, they identify the...
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Tissue Types

For Students 4th - 8th
For this human tissue worksheet, students read about the 4 different tissue types in the body. Students read 4 pages about the types.
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Where is Your Heart? What Does it Do?

For Teachers K
Students identify size and general location of human heart, identify heart muscle, describe, in general terms, heart's basic function of pumping blood throughout body, and complete "Where is Your Heart" and "What Does My Heart Look...
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Write, Read and Play

For Teachers K - 5th
Students integrate writing, reading and movement skills. They draw from a hat a movement skill (e.g., throwing, catching, kicking, etc.), sport, or related word (e. g., heart, muscle, etc.) and create a book written on the first or...
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The Respiratory and Urinary System

For Students 5th - 12th
In this body systems learning exercise, students read information about the processes involved in the respiratory and urinary systems. Students then answer 1 short answer and 2 multiple choice questions.
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Pass it Around

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students participate in body awareness activities by lying in a large circle and passing a ball. In this body awareness lesson, students lie in a large circle and pass a ball in multiple fashions to improve their motor skills, problem...
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Human Skeleton

For Students 5th - 7th
Promote reading comprehension and practice naming parts of the human skeleton with this online interactive worksheet! Scholars read about the functions of the human skeletal system, then work online to label a diagram by filling in 18...
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The Muscle System

For Students 9th
In this muscle system worksheet, 9th graders identify and write the name of each type of muscle associated with the body part listed. Then they label the illustration of the leg showing which muscle contracts and which muscle relaxes.
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Rattle Your Bones and Flex Your Muscles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify bones, muscles and joints. They explore and investigate the interaction between bones, muscles and joints, and movement of the hand or foot. To help the teacher provides a poster of the human skeleton.
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Learning the Bones and Muscles of the Head and Face

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students learn about the human body. In this science lesson plan, students discover the bones of the head and face as they explore their own cranium.
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Science: About Your Body

For Teachers 1st
First graders examine body systems and demonstrate their competency in a quiz game show. Lessons cover the brain, heart, lungs, digestive system, muscles, and bones. Students , in teams, answer teacher-created questions in the game.
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Steroids and the Body

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how steroids can harm the body physically and mentally.
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Keeping Healthy

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students exercise their muscles to explore concept of heart rate and to explain how blood supplies muscles with oxygen.
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Bones and Muscles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to bones as the body's means of support and protection. They research bone facts and conduct an experiment with chicken bones. They identify and observe involuntary muscles at work.
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Our Systematic Body

For Teachers 1st
Students explore several parts of the body system in the eight lessons of this unit. Through several hands-on activities, the skeletal, muscular, digestive, circulatory and nervous systems are observed.
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Anatomy of the Heart

For Teachers 9th - 11th
In this anatomy of the heart worksheet, students participate in a lab to describe the location of the heart in the body, identify a cardiac muscle tissue and trace the flow of blood through the heart.
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Know Bones About It!

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students make a model of a major skeletal muscle group. They consider how their life might change if they didn't have, or lack use of, this particular muscle group.
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Muscle Tag

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Pupils get a yarn ball and find a good self space in the playing area (best designated by cones-NOT the walls of a gym). On the teacher's signal students walk and try to tag anyone and everyone in the area.

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