The Body Book by Silver and Wynne for grades 3-6 Several models of the body to copy and cut. The skeletal, digestive, and pulmonary systems can be colored, cut and built into one model about 3 ft long. We also used one model from the muscular system.
Books:
Dem Bones by Bob Barner (skeletal system) Sing it!
Visual Dictionary of Human Anatomy by DK
Now One Foot, Now the Other by De Paola (nervous system)--about learning how to walk as a child and again after a stroke. We discussed how strokes effect the brain.
Tom (ligments) by De Paola
Bump, Thump, How Do We Jump? by Lobb, Utton, and Savage--activities
On Top of Mount Everest by Jack Myers--Human body related Highlights articles collected into a book
Calavera Abecedario: A Day of the Dead Alphabet Book by Winter (skeletons)
Links:
Bone mosaics at Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini
Summaries of our study (done in conjuction with a study of mosaics) including some activities not mentioned here. Everyone was 3rd grade or younger.
Day 1
Day 2
Days 3, 4, & 5
Finale
Songs I forgot to get from Itunes and make a CD of:
- You Gotta Have Skin by John Lithgow
- Dem Bones by Kidzone
- Dem Bones by Hip Science--rap which had Latin names of bones
- Circulation from School House Rock
- Telegraph Line from School House Rock
I'm not sure the School House Rock stuff is available there. The others are for sure.
