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Middle school students have a natural curiosity about their bodies and how they work. Human Body Systems taps this curiosity by helping students clarify what they already know about their bodies and giving them the opportunity to perform a series of engaging hands-on activities through which they extend and enrich this knowledge.
Each lesson in this module builds on skills and concepts presented in
previous lessons. As students progress through the module, they take
greater responsibility for their own learning, eventually planning and
conducting their own procedures, devising their own data tables, and
analyzing the results they obtain.
Human Body Systems is organized into three parts: The Digestive System, The Respiratory and Circulatory Systems, and The Musculoskeletal System. A conceptual sequence chart for the module appears under Downloads.
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The Digestive System: Students trace nutrients as they are processed by the digestive system, pass into the blood, and are transported to body cells.
The Respiratory and Circulatory Systems: Students explore the breathing mechanism: how oxygen enters the body, passes into the blood, and is transported to body cells, where it combines with digested food to release energy. An exploration of the transport system—the heart and blood vessels—focuses on how oxygen and nutrients are transported to body cells and how wastes are carried away for eventual elimination. Students then use a siphon-pump model to explore the double-pump action of the heart, which leads to an investigation of heart rate and the factors that affect it.
The Musculoskeletal System: This series of lessons deals with the musculoskeletal system’s use of the energy released during respiration. Students investigate the nature of joints and how muscles, bones, and nerves work together.
Anchor Activity: This is a research project in which pairs of students study diseases, proper nutrition, physical fitness, and health care careers, then present to the class their findings with oral presentations.
Pre- and post-unit assessments are included where appropriate, and informal assessments are embedded in lessons.
Background and supplemental information are provided by one or more reading selections in each lesson. Especially engaging is an informative serial reading selection entitled Spies, which recounts the adventures of eppi and Bollo, two imaginary creatures dispatched to Earth by scientists in another galaxy. The spies’ job is to learn as much as they can about human anatomy and physiology. They can shrink or expand in size at will, and they take advantage of this remarkable trait to enter the body of a human. Each episode of this beautifully illustrated selection addresses concepts pertinent to the lesson in which it appears.
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Goals for this kit include a complete understanding of the following ideas in
Life Science:
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How the digestive system works |
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How the circulatory system works |
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How the respiratory system works |
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How the musculoskeletal system works |
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Human Body Systems Unit
Kit
The Unit Kit comes with a Teacher's
Guide, a Teacher's Tools CD, 16
Reusable Perfect Bound Student
Guides, 16 Reusable Student Guide
Ebook Access Codes and the
materials needed for a class of 32. |
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Human Body Systems
Refurbishment Set
This set replenishes the consumable
materials in the Unit Kit. |
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Human Body Systems
Replacement Parts
We offer individual replacement parts for your Unit Kits. |
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Human Body Systems
5-Class Unit Kit
The Unit Kit comes with a Teacher's
Guide, a Teacher's Tools CD, 16
Reusable Perfect Bound Student
Guides, 16 Reusable Student Guide
Ebook Access Codes and the
materials needed for a class of 160. |
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Human Body Systems
5-Class Refurbishment Set
This set replenishes the consumable
materials in the 5-Class Unit Kit. |
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Human Body Systems
Student Guide and Source Book, Pack
of 4
This pack is handy for replacing
lost or damaged student books. |
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Teacher's Tools
CD-ROM: Human Body Systems
This CD contains digital versions of
the teaching materials for this kit. |
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KIDS DISCOVER:
Lungs (Pack of 8)
This KIDS DISCOVER magazine
stimulates students' imaginations,
connects science in the classroom to
the real world, and makes learning
fun! |
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This free lesson from
Human Body Systems will allow students to explore how food moves through the digestive tract.
