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The Human Body
Explore the human body through hands-on activities. Young learners will trace their bodies and place cut out body organs in the proper place, print patterns using cut fruit, sing songs about good nutrition, and use their five senses...
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Reading Comprehension Worksheet: Human Body
Practice reading comprehension with this human anatomy worksheet, which has learners first examining a 3-paragraph informational passage. The text introduces functions and features of the human heart, and 4 comprehension questions have...
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Understanding the Body, Day 1: Anatomy
Intended for moderate to severely disabled learners, this lesson focuses on building an understanding of human anatomy. A secondary special education class reviews, identifies, and labels parts of the body. Including the internal and...
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Systems of the Human Body
Young scholars inquire about human anatomy by completing a worksheet. In this body systems lesson plan, students discuss the importance of a self-regulating body and how the skeletal, muscular, respiratory and digestive system all...
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Human Body Word Search
Although this very simple human body word search has little academic value, it may assist with spelling for some learners. There are only six terms: blood, bone, spine, lung, vein, and skull. This worksheet can easily be uploaded into a...
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Dem Bones, Dem Bones are Going to Walk Around: The Human Body
Students explore human anatomy by creating a science book in class. In this skeletal structure instructional activity, students identify the different body systems such as muscular, nervous, skeletal, and digestive. Students create a...
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Guessing Body Parts
Kids can guess the image as each colorful square is removed to reveal a little part of the whole picture. They attempt to guess each of 12 different body parts before all of the squares are removed. This is a fun way to review the parts...
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Human Body Simon Says
Students display their new knowledge of human body parts' names and locations, by playing an adaptation of the game Simon Says. A more sophisticated version of the game can be played with older students as they learn more specific names...
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Human Body Series - Respiratory System - Captain Oxygen Storyboard
Kids love superheroes, and for this assignment they create a comic about Captain Oxygen! Direct your class to make sure that their knowledge of the respiratory system is displayed through the dialogue. Note that though the publisher has...
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Systems Every "Body" Needs to Know
Through an informative WebQuest and group work, learners explore the human body and cell structure. They create a cell diagram, research a disease, write a letter explaining the causes of human disease, and work in small groups to create...
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My Body
Assist your littlest learners in identifying the parts of their bodies. Each slide contains a labeled image of an individual body part. Arms, legs, hands, and feet to mention a few. Tip: Turn this visual presentation into a kinesthetic...
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The Body and the Five Senses
Read De la cabeza a los pies once for your learners before teaching them the body movements that accompany the book. Then, read it again and have the learners demonstrate the movements! There's also a chart to help...
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The Human Body
Students research information about the human body. They read books and explore the Internet to gather information about the human body. Students create graphic representations and models of the body systems. Working in groups, they...
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Life Science: Exploring Our Human Bodies
Students explore the concept of the human body. They complete a variety of activities concerning the function of various organs. They listen to their heartbeat with a stethoscope, examine how muscles work during a game of tag, and play...
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Understanding the Body, Day 2: Puberty
What is puberty? Get your secondary special needs students on the right track with this develpmentally appropriate lesson. They define and describe the differences between men, women, boys, and girls, discuss major events that mark...
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Making and Using a Gel Person to Teach Human Anatomy
Students investigate organs, anatomical planes and transverse sections of the human body using gel people. In this human anatomy lesson plan, students use gel molds, gel and food items to make models of the human body. They create a...
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Refining the Why? Turning Student Questions into Research
Middle schoolers have years of experience when it comes to how their bodies work. Surely they have some questions as well. Here is an opportunity for them to practice the scientific method in an attempt to answer some of those questions....
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Antibiotic Attack
Learners examine how antibiotics work and why they are effective. For this antibiotic lesson, students discover that when harmful germs get inside the body, the immune system may not be strong enough to fight the germs off. ...
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Do the Research! Human Body, Big and Strong
In this human body activity, students do research about body organs, muscles and systems. Students answer 3 short essay questions.
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Diffusion Lab
Students study diffusion and how it applies to the human body. In this diffusion lesson students complete a lab activity and discuss what they learned.
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Our Amazing Body!
Students explain characteristics and functions of observable body parts. They identify major bones in the body, list and locate the major systems of the the body through a series of activities such as chalk outlines, body bingo, and...
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Human Skeleton Anatomy Activity
Young biologists piece together the puzzle of the human body with this simple anatomy worksheet. Presented with a picture of the human skeleton, students are challenged with the task of correctly identifying the 27...
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Traveling Through the Digestive System
Second graders learn about how the food is broken down in our bodies and the job of each body part involved in our digestive system. The utilize the CD ROM game, "Body Works." This wonderful game takes pupils through the human body's...
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Human Body Vocabulary
In this human body worksheet, students match words on the left with definitions on the right. Worksheet is labeled as a quiz, but may be used as practice/review.