Includes Lessons and Curriculum
Edventures Science of the Human Body Program
Jump into learning as students use the engineering design process to discover how the human body works.
This human body curriculum teaches anatomy for kids in a fun, easy-to-grasp manner. Get students running and jumping as they learn about the major body organs like muscles and lungs. Engineering activities help students get a clearer picture of human biology. Create models of organs with the included craft materials to help students understand how they work inside.
Perfect for summer camps, classrooms, or school programs, the program helps students discover the importance of proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle, how to measure heart rate, and how to approximate energy expenditure. Accommodates 30 students for 12, one-hour activities. Recommended for Upper Elementary.
Standards: Aligns with NGSS, CCSS-Math
Program includes:
- Stethoscopes (4 pack), 2 Ea
- Magnifying Glasses, 30 Ea
- Construction Paper, 50 Sheets
- Kraft Paper, 20 Sheets
- Ball of Red Yarn, 1 Ea
- Ball of Wheat Yarn, 1 Ea
- Balloons, 50 Ea
- Bottles of Glue, 8 Ea
- Calculator, 1 Ea
- Dry Erase Markers, 31 Ea
- Dry Erase Page Pockets, 31 Ea
- Kraft Mailing Tube, 1 Ea
- Paper Clips, 100 Ea
- Rolls of Masking Tape, 4 Ea
- Scissors, 30 Ea
- Stopwatch, 1 Ea
- Storage Tub, 1 Ea
- Instructor Guide, 1 Ea
- Printed Student Pages, 30 Sets
- Curriculum Digital Download, 1 Ea
Next Generation Science Standards*:
- 3-5-ETS1-1: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
- 3-5-ETS1-2: Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
- 3-5-ETS1-3: Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
- 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
- 4-LS1-2: Use a model to describe how plants and animals (including humans) depend on each other for food.
- 4-PS3-2: Make observations to provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents.
- 4-PS4-2: Develop a model to describe that light interacts with matter by reflection, absorption, or transmission.
- MS-LS1-8: Gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.
*The Next Generation Science Standards are a registered trademark of WestEd. Neither WestEd nor the lead states and partners that developed the Next Generation Science Standards were involved in the production of this product, and do not endorse it.
Common Core Math Standards*:
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.NBT.B.6: Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division. Illustrate and explain the calculation by using equations, rectangular arrays, and/or area models.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.B.5: Fluently multiply multi digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.MD.C.3: Recognize volume as an attribute of solid figures and understand concepts of volume measurement.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.G.A.2: Represent real world and mathematical problems by graphing points in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane, and interpret coordinate values of points in the context of the situation.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.SP.B.5.C: Summarize numerical data sets in relation to their context, such as by: Giving quantitative measures of center (median and/or mean) and variability (interquartile range and/or mean absolute deviation), as well as describing any overall pattern and any striking deviations from theoverall pattern with reference to the context in which the data were gathered.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.RP.A.3.D: Use ratio reasoning to convert measurement units; manipulate and transform units appropriately when multiplying or dividing quantities.
*National Governors Association Center for Best Practices & Council of Chief State School Officers. (2010). Common Core State Standards. Washington, DC: Authors.