Anatomy Unit Study

Our body are machines, and any good mechanic will tell you that machines run better when you know how they work.  In addition to our The Good & the Beautiful Anatomy curriculum, we're using these hands-on activities for super-fun learning!

The Basics : Cells

• Cake Cell - edible model
• Lapbook - Cells
• Games & Interactive Fun

The Basics : Anatomical Overview

• Human Body lapbook (pre-K)
• Human body lapbook (older kids)
• Owner's Guide to the Human Machine (curriculum - older kids)
• Body Bingo (grades 2-8)
• Inside the Human Body

Respiratory System

• Notebooking pages
• A Tour of Your Respiratory System
• Boss of the Plains & lapbook
• The Bobbin Girl & lapbook

Cardiovascular System

• Circulatory Game
• Notebooking pages
• Circulatory lapbook
• How Does My Heart Work?
• Magic School Bus Has a Heart

Skeletal System

• Skeletal lapbook
• Teeth lapbook
• Reading Comprehension & Activity
• X-Ray Play-do
• Edible Bone Model
• The Skeleton Inside You

Nervous System

• How Do You Think?
• How the Brain Works
• The Effect of Drugs on the Brain

Hands-On Fun!

• The Body Book
• Young Scientist's Activity Kit
• Skeletons In the Closet game
• Anatomy Coloring Book
• 3-D Models (we LOVE these!)
• Schoolhouse Rock - Science Rock
• Bill Nye the Science Guy : Circulation
• Bill Nye : Brain
• Bill Nye : Bones & Muscles

Digestive System

• I Will Never NOT EVER Eat A Tomato & lapbook
• Worksheets & Activities
• Digestive Organs lesson
• Good vs. Bad Gut Bacteria
• Why Do We Pass Gas?
• Did you Eat Your Vitamins Today?
• Quest to Digest
• What Happens to a Hamburger?

Immune System

• Wilma Unlimited & lapbook
• Immunity lesson
• T-cells & HIV
• Bill Nye : Germs
• Skin Diagram
• Magic School Bus Inside Ralphie
• Max Axiom : World of Bacteria
• Parasites & Pathogens Microscope Slides
• Integumentary systems lapbook

Muscular System

• A Day's Work & lapbook
• Anaerobic Exercise video
• Aerobic Exercise video
• Muscular System lapbook

The Five Senses

• Optical Illusion crafts
• How the Eye Works lesson
• Human Senses video
• Taste & Smell lesson
• Marguerite Makes A Book  (Eyes) & lapbook
  Beethoven Lives Upstairs (Ears) & lapbook

Hands-On Fun!

• The Body Book
• Young Scientist's Activity Kit
• Five Senses flannel board
• Five Senses puzzle
• Play-dough
• Anatomy Coloring Book
• 3-D Models (we LOVE these!)
• Schoolhouse Rock - Science Rock
• Bill Nye the Science Guy : Digestion