The Human Body - School-Age
Bones
Dry Bones (or Skeleton Bones)
Lyrics and music
Video
Muscles and Tendons
Brain
The Brain Game - label the different parts of the brain.
“Ectomy” (a game about the brain)- the lobes of the brain.
Video
Circulatory System
Your Heart & Circulatory System article at Kids Health.
Wonderopolis: How Does Blood Travel Through the Body?
Wonderopolis: If Blood is Red Why Are Veins Blue?
Wonderopolis: How Much Blood is in the Body?
Human Heart - Color by number
Human Heart Diagram - Color and label parts.
Video
Heart
DIY Stethoscope for students
Video
The Respiratory System - Lungs
How Much Air Do Your Lungs Hold?
Need: A large plastic bottle that holds 7 or 9 pints (4 or 5 liters) of water, plastic tubing 2 feet (60cm) long, ruler, rubber bands, bowl.
Put the bowl in the sink and fill it about one third full of water. Fill the bottle to the top with water. Place your hand over the top of the bottle. Quickly turn the bottle upside down and put the top under the surface of the water in the bowl. Ask someone to hold the bottle steady and take your hand away.
Fix a ruler to the side of the bottle with rubber bands or mark a scale on some paper and sitck it onto the bottle. Put the tube in the neck of the bottle. Take a deep breath, hold your nose and blow hard down the tube. How much water can you blow out in one go? This will give you some idea how much air is in your lungs.
Your Lungs & Respiratory System article at Kids Health
Lung Facts - a range of interesting facts.
Science hidden word search about the respiratory system.
Your Lungs - Read then answer questions.
Video
Skin
Skin accounts for about 15% of a persons body weight.
Your Skin article at Kids Health.
Skin Facts - interesting facts.
Video
Recommended Books
First Encyclopedia of the Human Body
by Fiona Chandler
My First Human Body Book
by Patricia J. Wynne
Your Skin and Mine: Revised Edition (Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2)
by Paul Showers
