Goals in studying the Human Body

First Grade
 
10 week Rough plan in progress:
Week 1

• The five senses
•  Taste
• Terrific Taste Buds with Jelly Bellys or Terrific Taste Buds with Liquid solutions
• A taste bud map, perhaps with blanks to see if she can map her findings, then unveil actual map after activity is done.
• pencil
• Gregory the Terrible Eater
• Sound, Taste, Smell, Touch without sight
• The Five Senses
• Body Outline poster
• add systems and body parts each week

Weeks 2 & 3

• The Circulatory System
• Heart and Blood 
• Learn how to measure heart rate
• understand reasons why your heart rate will change
• How Does your heart rate?
• DNA 
• Make Licorice, toothpick and marshmallow DNA
• The Respiratory System
• Lungs
• The Breathing Machine
• Books:
• The Circulatory Story
• pgs. 30, 31, 32, 33, parts of Chapter 2 in The Way we...

Weeks 4 & 5

•  Digestive System and Urinary System
• Parts of Chapter 3
• Tasting and smelling - Why they are important to these systems.

Weeks 6 & 7

•  Skeletal System and Muscular System
• Parts of Chapter 6 
• Activity

Weeks 8 & 9

•  Nervous System 
• Reflexes
• Parts of Chapter 4

Week 10

• Things our bodies need to stay healthy
• food groups
• washing hands
• damaging things for our bodies
• Chapter 5 

•  Activities
•  Use the links provided for the Human Body on The lesson Plans Page and Newton's Apple, The Sunny Patch, Studying DNA and my post on David Macaulay's The Way We Work.
• During this unit, plan a trip to Healthworks in South Bend either in Week 9 or 10. 
• Make a body outline poster to hang up in bedroom while working on this Unit. Add color to each part of the body as it is being studied throughout the term.

• the five senses 
• senses to figure out what an object might be
• understand how heart rate can change with activity
• learn how to measure heart rate
• identify a reason why heart rate changes
• have a basic understanding of the different systems that work together within our bodies
• skeletal
• muscular
• circulatory
• digestive
• nervous system
• have an understanding of the terms we will be using
• reflexes
• use activities to test different reflexes
• things that our bodies need to stay healthy/ what is not good for our bodies
• food groups
• washing hands