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Learn about our bodies with these human body activities for kids! All of these ideas are hands-on way to explain the body's systems and functions for kids.
At the end of each school year, I sit down with my daughter to discuss what topics she most wants to learn about the next year. One of her science topics she picked to study this year was the human body. Instead of ordering a boxed curriculum set, I decided to put together my own human body unit. In this 3 part series I will share some of the activities and resources we used for each of the body systems starting with the skeletal and muscular systems. The Human Skeletal System Our skeletons are the frame of our body. They give us structure, without them our bodies would be limp like noodles. They also provide places for muscles to attach so our bodies can move. Why Does Your Body Need Calcium? Experiment: This is a simple experiment you can do to explore why calcium is important for our bones. You will need: -several clean chicken bones -vinegar -a bowl with a lid or plastic wrap to cover it Let your child examine a clean chicken bone. Note how hard it is. Place several clean chicken bones into a bowl and cover with vinegar. You should notice small bubbles forming on the bones. This is the product of a reaction between the vinegar and the calcium in the bones. Cover the bowl and set aside. After several days check your bones. They should begin to feel soft and spongy after a while. This happens because the vinegar has reacted with calcium in the bones. Calcium plays an important role in bone strength and hardness. Without it our bones wouldn't be as strong or hard. Resources For Learning About The Skeletal System: -Bones from The Dr. Binocs Show is a great video for kids about the human skeletal system. -Bones And The Human Skeletal System from Ducksters has lots of general information about the human skeletal system plus an online quiz. -Skeletal System from Biology Kids has lots of great information about bones, the human skeleton, x-rays, and more. -Pasta Skeletons a fun anatomy activity from Martha Stewart -Skeleton Worksheet And Craft from Layers Of Learning The Human Muscular System Our muscles are what allows our body to move. Muscles are attached to bones with ligaments. When our brains send the signal, our muscles contract, moving our bones. Articulated Hand Activity: This is a really awesome hands on activity for learning about the muscular system. This activity requires a little patience but turns out really awesome! You will need: -Construction paper -A pencil -Scissors -A few plastic drinking straws -Tape -String Start by tracing a hand, the bigger the better, so an adult hand is preferable. Next cut the hand out. Cut the plastic straws into small pieces about 1/2 inch long. Tape the straw pieces in a row down each finger. Try to fit 3 on each finger and 2 on the thumb. You can use a few longer sections to run down the hands to the wrist. Taping the pieces on is the part that requires a little patience. It can be a little hard to get them all in place. Cut 5 lengths of string long enough to run down from the tips of the fingers to a few inches past the wrist. Tape a string to the back if each finger tip. Pull the string over the tip of the finger and string it through the plastic straws running down that finger, then through the straw running to the wrist. Once all the fingers are threaded, you can pull the strings to make the fingers bend open and closed! Resources For Learning About The Muscular System: -How Your Muscular System Works from TED-Ed is a video about how our muscles work to move our body parts. -Biology For Kids: The Muscular System from Ducksters has lots of general information about muscles and the human muscular system. -The Muscular System from Kids Biology has information about how muscles work and the different types of muscles. -Label The Muscles Printable from kidshealth.org -Muscular System Word Find Printable from kidshealth.org And be sure to check out: Part 2: The Respiratory And Circulatory Systems! Part 3: The Digestive And Nervous Systems Follow me on: Facebook Pinterest Instagram Twitter
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We are currently doing a short study of the human body. We recently finished up our unit on the Brain and Nerves, and here are some of the activities we did and resources we used.
Hickory Dickory Dock, The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down. Hickory Dickory Dock. Activity 1: The Chiming Clock Can you make a coat hanger sound like a loud, chiming clock? This is a simple demonstration that helps make the point that sound needs something to travel through and that air is not a very efficient material for that purpose. You only need a wire coat hanger and a long length of string. Tie the string onto the hanger, so that the hanger hangs from the middle of the string. Swing the hanger from the string so that it bumps into something (a table, chair, wall, etc.) and take note of the sound it makes. It's kind of a short, clang-y sound. Nothing very dramatic or melodic about it. Now, wrap one end of the string around one of your index fingers and the other end around the other index finger. Place your fingers in your ears (gently, there's no need to jam them in). Swing the hanger so that bumps into something once again and take note of the sound it makes. Louder and more like a gong or large bell ringing. In the first trial, the sound made when the hanger hit the object had to travel through the air to reach your ear drum. A lot of the sound was lost on the way to your ear. In the second trial, the sound vibrations travel from the hanger through the string and your fingers to your ear. Much less sound energy is lost in route and it makes an audible difference.
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Mackenzie has been studying the nervous system these last few weeks and we've been wrapping it up by focusing on the brain. The topic of the brain has been fascinating. The brain is truly a testimony to the perfection and intricacy of God's amazing design of our bodies. Some interesting facts that we learned: **The brains neurons cannot repair themselves. Uh-oh!!!! **While recent evidence shows that people can add a few neurons to their brains over their lifetime, the neurons that you have at birth will be the large majority of what you have to sustain you your entire life. **The skull, while an important part of God's plan for protection for this fragile organ, is rough on the inside. Rough enough to cut the brain. (Who knew? Well probably Derek Shepard. lol) Wow! This organ is vital to our daily lives, clearly it's important to take care of it. It just re-enforces our stance on the importance of wearing helmets when participating in activities involving wheels or flying down a mountain. Thankfully, our skull is only our first line of defense for our almighty brains. God, in His infinite wisdom, also carefully packaged our wonderful brains in cerebrospinal fluid. Or as I refer to it, brain fluid. This amazing fluid, between the brain and skull, cushions and cradles the brain and keeps it in place. It also helps to distribute the force of an impact on our brains when we take a blow to our heads. Have you ever hit your head so hard that you can feel your brain sloshing around in there? Not fun but thank goodness for that fluid, now that I know about the rough inside of my skull. So today we did an experiment to show just how important that fluid is. We used 2 eggs, a plastic Easter egg slightly bigger than the eggs, and corn syrup. This is your brain. This is your brain inside a skull without cerebrospinal fluid. This is your brain experiencing an impact of the unpleasant variety. Awww Snap!!! And the inside of this skull was smooth. This is your brain inside of a skull with cerebrospinal fluid. (If there are holes in your egg, tape them up. You don't want your brain to leak.) This is your brain experiencing another impact of the unpleasant variety. Poor brain! Hooray for brain fluid!!!
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