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ESL: Body Parts Activity

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this ESL body parts vocabulary learning exercise, students watch a video titled, "The Skeleton Dance," then complete a related crossword puzzle matching clues with body parts.
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Body Idioms

For Students 6th - Higher Ed
In this ESL idioms worksheet, students read 24 common idioms that contain a body part reference. Students read 13 sentences that have a missing phrase. Students select an idiom that would make sense in each sentence.
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Autopsy Questions

For Students 7th - 12th
In this autopsy worksheet students study how an autopsy is performed then answer a series of questions including how the parts of the body are examined. 
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Am I Related to Myself?

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Elementary or middle schoolers use ratios to discover some nearly constant relationships between measurements of parts of the human body. They find and record pairs of measurements and determine the relationship between the pairs. Pupils...
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Paper Car Crash Design

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High school physical scientists collide with motion. They work in pairs to design a paper car that will protect a raw egg during a head-on collision. Measurements of distance traveled, time of run, vehicle specs, and photo gate flags are...
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Volleyball - Lesson 5 - Winning the Point

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Volleyball - Lesson 5 is about winning the point. It takes some practice and hard word to become good at hitting or spiking a volleyball. This lesson focuses on some of the teaching cues and techniques of hitting/spiking a volleyball to...
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Spanish Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

For Teachers K - 5th
Students sing the song Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes using the spanish words for the parts of the body. They practice saying the words before singing the song and try going faster each time the sing the song.
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Spanish Body Parts

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students learn Spanish vocabulary with visuals and hands-on activities.
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Clothes, Shapes, Parts of the Body

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this describing pictures instructional activity, students practice using the words be and have. Students are given five pictures and a passage about the picture. Students are to cross out anything in each passage that doesn't describe...
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Parts of the Body

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify parts of their body. They recognize the job each part of the body has. They act out motions to the song "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes". They sequence parts of a story using flashcards.
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Body Parts Word Search

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this English Language word search students enhance their vocabularies by completing the six different word searches about body parts.
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Vocabulary; Idioms/Phrasal Verbs-Parts of the Body-Part 1

For Teachers 7th - 8th
In this foreign language worksheet, learners are given 10 sentences that use a body part in an idiomatic phrase. They select the word that best completes the idiom.
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Collaborative Creation

For Teachers K - 5th
Students examine the body parts in a sculpture. In this sculpting instructional activity, students view the "Eleven-Headed Bodhisattva" and discuss the characteristics of each body part. Student work together to draw one specific body part.
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Using Light and Shadow to Create a Sense of Character

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners heighten awareness and mastery of the subtle factors of drawing technique. Activities focus solely on the human figure, particularly the face. students list 5 of elements of light and shadow which affect portrayal of character...
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Fetal Pig: Circulatory System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Step-by-step instructions for fetal pig dissection and viewing of the circulatory system is given in this exercise. Your young biologists match the names to the organs or label a diagram of the pig circulatory system. This resource...
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Bridge Building

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Bridge the gaps in your knowledge of bridges. Individuals learn about bridge types by building models. The activity introduces beam bridges, arch bridges, truss bridges, and suspension bridges.
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WATER HERE AND THERE

For Teachers K - 2nd
Introduce the topic of water conservation with a little drama. Dressed as snowflakes, hail stones, or rain drops class members dramatize the events in a narration of the water cycle. The series of lessons that follow focus on...
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The Flower and the Fly

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
It's like a biological "Beauty and the Beast!" The fascinating mutualism between a South African meganosed fly and a deep-throated geranium builds a case study in coevolution for your biology buffs to analyze. After reading about this...
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Body Vocabulary in Arabic

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Pupils study the Arabic names for certain body parts and demonstrate their knowledge through pair work and a song.
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El Cuerpo and Commands Vocabulary Games

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students study Spanish vocabulary words for body parts, and also study a number of action verbs. They participate in Total Physical Response by responding to teacher given commands. They play a number of games based on the vocabulary.
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Label the Larva Activity

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders label mosquito body parts. In this mosquito labeling lesson, 3rd graders drag the names of the mosquito body parts to label the picture of the mosquito larva. They complete this activity online.
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Body Measuring Activity

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore geometry by participating in a measurement activity. For this human anatomy lesson, students identify the appropriate methods to measure human body parts and do so in class. Students create a bar graph from their class...
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Labeling the Body

For Teachers 1st
First graders sing about their body. In this music instructional activity students sing the songs "I Shake My Thumb" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes". After they sing the songs and add different body parts to extend the songs they...
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Human Body Parts

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils create body cutouts of themselves and label specific internal and external organs/parts that are covered in class in this exciting lesson on Human Anatomy. Digital cameras and pictures of various internal organs are required.