Tag: body
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Reinforcement: Overview of the Body Systems
One of the biggest challenges when teaching anatomy is helping students move beyond memorizing lists of organs and instead understand that every body system works together to keep us alive. Students may know that the lungs belong to the respiratory system or that the kidneys are part of the urinary system, but they often struggle…
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Introduce Anatomy Terms with Chalk Outlines
Introduce anatomy by making a chalk outline and placing cards in the location of where the structures are located.
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Label the Body Regions
This worksheet is used with a beginning anatomy unit that discusses anatomical terminology and body regions.
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Article: The Body Farm
This article has been adapted to model standardized test questions students, where the article is divided into columns and each paragraph is labeled with a number. Students are required to find information in the text and analyze text structures. Readers are asked to used context clues to understand difficult vocabulary. Students must also make…
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Comparing the Anatomy of Arthropods (Coloring)
This simple activity was designed for intro level biology (life science). Students read about different types of arthropods and learn what characteristics they share, such as an exoskeleton and segmentation. Then they reading focus on specific groups: insects, arachnids, crustaceans and centipedes. The goal is for them to learn that each group has a…