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Human Body: Everything You Need
These lively resources help students understand how the human body develops and functions.
The Human Body Project
Grades 3–5 | Listening and Speaking | Research Skills | Animal Structure and Movement | General Health
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The Bones Inside UsGrades 3–5 | Human Body | Curriculum Development Students answer questions about the human skeleton by using the links beloprovided on this interactive reproducible. Save To Organizer |
Have a HeartPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Language Arts | Unit Plans | Human Body This unit is designed to teach young children about the human heart, ways to take care of their heart, and the history of the heart shape. Save To Organizer |
Human Body: A Math Hunt ActivityGrades 6–8 | Reading | Grades 3–5 | Content Area Reading | Computer Lab Activities Learn about the human body by multiplying, dividing, and converting units to answer five math-related questions about the human body. Save To Organizer |
Researching the Human Body SystemsGrades 3–5 | Reading Comprehension | Writing Activities | Lesson Plans | Writing Students will conduct research under an assigned human body system in order to complete a medical residency in the classroom. Save To Organizer |
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Learning How the Body WorksGrades 3–5 | Writing Activities | Lesson Plans | Writing | Human Body Students will create and present various hands-on body system projects to their peers. This will support a larger study of the human body... Save To Organizer |
CyberHunt: The Bones Inside UsGrades 3–5 | Human Body | Curriculum Development Use this answer key to check your students'responses to a corresponding reproducible about the human skeleton. Save To Organizer |
Fun Bone FactsGrades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Articles | Human Body Fun facts about bones! Save To Organizer |
Super SkeletonsPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Human Body Activities that teach students about the human skeleton. Save To Organizer |
My Tooth Is About to Fall Out Discussion GuidePreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Compare and Contrast | Summarizing Discussion guide for My Tooth Is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone. Save To Organizer |
Want a Taste?PreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Lesson Plans | Human Body | Crafts Instructions for building a model of the tongue and mouth. This activity allows students to get a close-up look at taste buds. Save To Organizer |
Skin to Germs: KEEP OUT!! printablePreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Articles | Cells | Human Body Draw a conclusion about skin by observing how apples change over the course of a week. Save To Organizer |
Summer Body Activity: What's Inside of Me?PreK–K | Human Body | Body Parts | Summer Children use observation skills to learn about human skeletons. They read a book about skeletons and act out a poem. Kids also feel their... Save To Organizer |
Summer Body Activity: Everybody Has EarsPreK–K | Listening and Speaking | Body Parts | Songs and Rhymes | Summer Children learn about the ears and listening. Kids compare and contrast different animals'ears. There are versions of the activity for both... Save To Organizer |
Summer Body Activity: Join the Tasting Party!PreK–K | Human Body | Body Parts | Five Senses | Food and Cooking Let your child use her sense of taste and language skills to identify and describe different foods. Includes step-by-step instructions, a... Save To Organizer |
Summer Activities: Our Amazing BodiesPreK–K | Body Parts | Five Senses | Outdoor Activities | Summer With the activities in this section, children can use the body as a sensory laboratory to explore their five senses, heartbeat, bones, and... Save To Organizer |
Body SurfingGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Grades 9–12 | Articles | Human Body This content resource helps teachers locate information on the heart through various sites. Related links, teaching ideas, and a teacher's... Save To Organizer |
GIVE ME A HAND printablePreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Articles | Human Body | Body Parts Compare your arm to a chicken wing. Save To Organizer |
YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART printablePreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Articles | Human Body | Fitness Collect data on your personal heart workout. Save To Organizer |
The Magic School Bus Works OutGrades 3–5 | Activities and Games | Lesson Plans | Basic Needs of Living Things | Cells Ms. Frizzle wins the school Teacherathalon, thanks to teamwork - heart, lungs, blood, and muscles all working together! Your kids make a... Save To Organizer |











