Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Hinges Are a Part of You

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this lesson plan, students will learn about the joints in their bodies. Pipe cleaners will be used to simulate how joints work.
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: We Are the Parts [Pdf]

For Teachers 4th Standards
In this lesson, 4th graders will investigate equivalent fractions using their bodies and space.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: Sid Says

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make Sid move to match his father's movements and learn to identify where to find your muscles.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Levers: How the Human Body Uses Them to Its Advantage

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will apply the concept of levers to the human body and build all three classes of levers within a musculoskeletal context. They will be shown how the musculoskeletal system is a system of levers and one example of each type of...
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Cell Talk [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th
In this lesson, 5th graders will examine cell diagrams, then use their body, voice, and movement to become a particular part of a cell. Next, they work in pairs to create a dialogue between the different parts of the cell, exploring cell...
Lesson Plan
HotChalk

Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Billie Bird Learning About a Bird's Body

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This lesson is designed to introduce young students to the various parts of bird anatomy and to express that through creative movement, poetry, and drawings.
Handout
BBC

Bbc: Applied Anatomy and Physiology: Muscles and Movement

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn what muscles are, how they are classified, and how they are attached to the body's skeletal system. This site contains several definitions, illustrations showing the parts of muscles, and a quiz to test your knowledge of muscles...
Article
Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: One Day, Computers May Decode Your Dreams

For Students 9th - 10th
Wouldn't it be cool to read someone's mind? Maybe? Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh are developing a mind-reading computer system to hep people with nerve damage send messages from the brain to parts of the body to create...
Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: Are Your Bowels Moving?

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed, kid-friendly explanation of what happens when you move your bowels.
Interactive
Inner Body

Innerbody: Digestive System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take a look inside the human body's digestive system. This site features diagrams of the digestive tract and each part is accompanied by labels and descriptions. Just select an organ by moving the mouse over its image.
Lesson Plan
PE Central

Pe Central: Pe Lesson Plans: Push Up Routine

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Because push-ups are part of most fitness-related tests, it is important that young scholars practice push-ups and, in the process, improve upper body strength. Students able to do push-ups and able to "hold a push-up position for at...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Humans Are Like Robots

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Four lessons related to robots and people present students with life sciences concepts related to the human body (including brain, nervous systems and muscles), introduced through engineering devices and subjects (including computers,...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Comte De Barras

For Students 9th - 10th
A French Jacobin, born in Province, in 1755, of an ancient family; served as second lieutenant in the regiment of Languedoc until 1775. He made, about this time, a voyage to the Isle-de-France, the governor of which was one of his...