If you're working on human body unit study, you'll love the collection of human body activities and experiments shared here!
What does it mean to have asthma? How do healthy lungs function compared to sick lungs? These are the questions my 8-year-old wanted to investigate today. This STEM Respiratory System Investigation was a great discovery of what can stop our lungs from working properly. We compared lungs with asthma to healthy lungs and talked about some other lung infections and how they can affect our bodies.
Making Your Life-Sized Body (Organs) - Activity
I'm not gonna lie, when those Next Gen Science Standards came out and had light waves and such for first grade, my stomach turned in knots a little. Ok, a lot
BIG Science Stations Units are awesome for 4th, 5th, and 6th grade. Allow your students to learn and explore concepts in fun and different ways.
These Children's Play X-Rays are perfect for kids interested in skeletons! Includes 9 play x-rays that can be printed on vellum and enjoyed!
Human Body Printables – Homeschooling Learn about the organs and where they belong. Cut out the organs and arrange where they belong. See more of our Human Body Printables and Activities for Kids. Human Body Systems for Kids Free Printables for Homeschooling. Free Learning Games for Kids – Homeschooling…
Build a Heart Model - STEM activity about heart rates and how blood flows through the body. Engineer a functioning model of a beating heart.
Help your second graders better understand the properties of matter with this fun apple experiment. Perfect for for any apple unit!
FREE science emergent reader book about the human body systems. Great science activity for preschool and kindergarten.
This post contains the animated short film "Glued." Download the accompanying handout leveled for upper elementary students to teach theme.
Here's a list of unit studies to help you homeschool multiple ages together without losing your mind as the homeschool mom.
Study mitosis and meiosis using student movement. Cut ropes into lengths and use them to model chromosomes and track their duplication.
Digestion experiment for kids! An easy science experiment from at-home materials about how the stomach breaks down food. Anatomy science for kids.
Study the human body anatomy with kids by making an anatomy model with these free printable life-size human body organs!
Need to write a unit plan, but want to create one you'll actually use? Here are some quick steps to unit planning that will make daily lesson planning a snap!
If you are looking to add some high interest activities for teaching characters and settings, try using the animated short Geri’s Game.
Five Senses Activities for Preschoolers
Looking for a way to make forces and interactions more engaging for your third grade students? Check out these fun force and motion activities that will keep them entertained and learning!
If you are looking for some high-interest activities, try using animated shorts to teach inference. Free handouts focus on student learning.
If you are looking for some high interest activities to enhance your perspective lessons, try using animated shorts to teach reading skills.
Crafts, activities, and printables you can use during your brain or nervous system unit study
What child doesn’t love a good story about a dog? Though there are a number of great dog stories out there, learning about Beagles and one young boy’s love for a mistreated animal makes
I finally nailed teaching symbolism! Using candy was both engaging and efficient - a major win that students remembered all year long!
Try one of these Preschool human body activities that are guaranteed to get your child interested in the human body and all the amazing things it does.
Let your upper elementary, middle school, & high school students better understand homelessness - while teaching tolerance and acceptance. Click for details!
Teachers, this blog post covers mixtures and solutions activities, ideas, resources, and assessments to make teaching science easy peasy!
Want to know how the blood travels through out your body? These circulatory system worksheets for kids will teach you all about how your body works.
FREE Plant and Animal Cell Printables
UPDATE! Barbie went to high school and can now do inverse trig functions with her zipline engineering! Geometry students found angles of depression using inverse trig functions and Pythagorean theorem to find the length of cable they needed! The handout and more photos can be found at the end of this post! Math and Science classes could have been sponsored by Mattel this year with all the Barbie involved! You can read about our super fun Barbie Bungee adventures here or over at my awesome partner science teacher's blog where we dropped Barbie from the top of the football stadium bleachers. After doing Barbie Bungee with our students this year for scatter plots, we leaked the plans that we would also be doing Barbie Zipline. Students had really been looking forward to this and as soon as they saw the unit divider for their notebooks was Pythagorean Theorem, they erupted with excitement and questions! The lesson started with this video to get them thinking about the criteria of what makes a zipline fun but safe. Most line, height, and speed! We reminded them that just like Barbie Bungee, we wanted to give Barbie a thrill without killing her! Students were also given a budget to work within to get their business started. After looking at all the ways other teachers have done this lesson, I liked how Andrew Stadel at Divisible by 3 did it so I used his plan to guide me...along with talking out every detail 47 times and adjusting throughout the day with my amazing co-teachers! Here is the handout for their notebooks where I combined all the things I stole found and changed it to a fun font! Students had to get their designs approved by our super awesome maintenance guy or amazing library media specialist. Our library media specialist gave them a tough time and even had some redesign their zipline before she would approve it! One group forgot to take their money with them to pay for the permit and she charged them interest by the minute while they {ran} to get the money! I love that the whole building was involved in their learning. We walked through the criteria together and they had to come up with three designs. One that would be instant, certain death for Barbie, one where Barbie may get stuck or lack a thrilling ride, and a ride just right where Barbie goes a safe, fun speed. Students worked hard on their designs and stood in line to get them approved! I gave them the height (leg) of the launch which was the catwalk at the cafeteria. They used the tiles on the cafeteria floor to measure where the zipline should be held (leg). The hypotenuse was the amount of cable needed and they had to calculate that as well. I let them have a walkthrough of the cafeteria to make any last minute adjustments to their design and that was Day 1. For Day 2, launch day, the science classes timed the Barbies going down the ziplines and calculated the speed for each group. We used feet for the design measurement so students could use the tiles but for the speed we had them convert to meters. It was awesome to see mathematicians launching their Barbies while the scientists collected the data below! I love when our powers combine! In the videos below, you can see the launch and the students timing and calculating below. I love everything about this lesson and the Pythagorean Theorem! I am so happy so many want to try this in their classrooms! Here is the link to the interactive notebook page I used. Please make it your own and let me know how it goes and how we can make it better! Yay math! Barbie Zipline for Interactive Notebook Barbie Zipline using inverse trig functions This post is part of the MTBoS Blaugust Festival of Mathematics Blogging! Click the photo to be taken to some amazing math bloggers!
If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons, try using animated shorts to teach the reading skill cause and effect.
Learn about fingerprinting for kids & play detective! Fun ideas for a CSI or spy party or science activity for preschool & elementary ages!
March is just around the corner! I know many of you are thinking Spring Break, but I’m thinking of National Brain Awareness Week! You might think it’s jumping the gun to blog about something that is celebrated in March on the first day of February. Why aren’t you talking about Black History Month or ... Read more
Learn about cells for kids with FREE All About Cells reader, Cells worksheets, edible DNA model, Cells Game, and more human body activities for kids.
This FREE Homeschool Human Body Unit Study is the perfect addition for your homeschool science curriculum!
When teaching about biomes in elementary, I like to bring in various biome activities and projects! This gives my students the space to truly explore and learn about the various biomes across the Earth. We all know how it goes...
If you are looking for some high interest teaching activities, try using animated shorts to to teach the reading skill problems and solutions.
