Teaching Themes
Human Body: Everything You Need
These lively resources help students understand how the human body develops and functions.
Unit Plans, Book Resources
The Human Body Project
Grades: 3–5
Students will research and assume roles as medical specialists through hands-on projects, research, reports, and presentations. Culminating activities will include working with a health specialist to dissect/observe cow eyes, sheep brains, pig lungs, pig heart, or various bones (including cow, rodent, and human bones).
Lesson Plans and Unit Plans
Human Body Project Residency
Grades: 3–5
Upon successful completion of research and passing test scores, students will work with a health specialist to dissect/observe cow eyes, sheep brains, pig lungs, pig heart, or various bones (including cow, rat, and human bones).
Human Body Books
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Computer Lab Activities Human Body: A Math Hunt ActivityGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Learn about the human body by multiplying, dividing, and converting units to answer five math-related questions about the human body. |
Articles Skin to Germs: KEEP OUT!! printableGrades: PreK–K, 1–2
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Articles YOU GOTTA HAVE HEART printableGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Collect data on your personal heart workout.
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Goes CellularGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Arnold's classmates discover that his body cells are alive. Your kids investigate whether yeast cells are alive. |
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Activities and Games The Magic School Bus Inside RalphieGrades: 3–5 The Magic School Bus gets inside Ralphie's body by going through a cut on his leg. Germs can get in the body that way, too, but skin usually... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Works OutGrades: 3–5 Ms. Frizzle wins the school Teacherathalon, thanks to teamwork - heart, lungs, blood, and muscles all working together! Your kids make a personal... |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus for LunchGrades: 3–5 When the Magic School Bus shrinks and goes into Arnold's mouth, the children watch his teeth chew food! The kids meet up with much smaller pieces... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus Flexes Its MusclesGrades: 3–5 Ms. Frizzle's class uses a fantastical machine to see inside the human body. Your children can explore bones and joints by comparing their own... |
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Articles Body SurfingGrades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12 This content resource helps teachers locate information on the heart through various sites. Related links, teaching ideas, and a teacher's guide... |
Discussion Guides, Book Resources My Tooth Is About to Fall Out Discussion GuideGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Discussion guide for My Tooth Is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone. |
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 The Bones Inside UsGrades: 3–5 Students answer questions about the human skeleton by using the links beloprovided on this interactive reproducible. |
 CyberHunt: The Bones Inside UsGrades: 3–5 Use this answer key to check your students'responses to a corresponding reproducible about the human skeleton. |
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Super SkeletonsGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Activities that teach students about the human skeleton. |
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Lesson Plans Want a Taste?Grades: PreK–K, 1–2 Instructions for building a model of the tongue and mouth. This activity allows students to get a close-up look at taste buds. |
 Lesson Plans, Writing Activities Learning How the Body WorksGrades: 3–5 Students will create and present various hands-on body system projects to their peers. This will support a larger study of the human body systems... |
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Lesson Plans, Writing Activities Researching the Human Body SystemsGrades: 3–5 Students will conduct research under an assigned human body system in order to complete a medical residency in the classroom. |
Summer Activities: Our Amazing BodiesGrades: PreK–K With the activities in this section, children can use the body as a sensory laboratory to explore their five senses, heartbeat, bones, and even... |
