Lesson
Plans for 4th Grade Human Anatomy
1.
Bio Science Project – Healthy Heart: This
website is a lesson plan focusing on teaching the student the importance and
function of the human heart. The activity allows the students to simulate the
pumping heart by opening and closing their hands to show just how much effort
the heart requires.
Date visited: March 4, 2006
http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/bio/bio-5.html
2.
Bones,
Bones, and More Bones: This website contains a lesson
plan that helps the student understand the make up of the different bones in
the human body as well as the function of the main skeletal subgroups. It is
originally designed for 2-3rd graders, but could be adapted for
higher grades.
Date visited: March 4, 2006
http://www.iit.edu/~smile/bi9711.html
3.
The Leg Bone is Connected to the…: This lesson
plan is comparable to the other bone lesson plans but it is more specific in
its goals for the students, and it also involves comparing the bone anatomy of
a human skeleton to the anatomy of other animals and seeing the differences and
similarities between the two.
Date visited: March 4, 2006
http://student.biology.arizona.edu/sciconn/skeleton_lesson.html
4.
Here’s to Your Healthy Heart!: This is a
very interesting activity that allows students to determine the proper
lifestyle choices that will keep our hearts healthy and strong. It also
provides the opportunity for students to analyze the choices that lead to
unhealthy hearts and cholesterol levels.
Date visited: March 4, 2006
http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/programs/healthyheart
5.
Changing the Face of Medicine: The
lessons provided through this website are excellent in helping the student
understand the circulatory system further. The site provides overheads,
worksheets, and specific instructions for the lesson. Highly recommended for
any classroom learning about the heart, veins, and arteries.
Date visited: March 4, 2006
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/changingthefaceofmedicine/resources/lesson_3_4.html
6.
The Human Body Lesson Plan: This
lesson plan has a great connection between the explanation of the human body
and the consequences it suffers from bad decision making. It reviews good life
style choices and eating habits as well as providing worksheets and study
guides for information retention.
Date visited: March 4, 2006
http://www.instructorweb.com/lesson/humanbody.asp
7.
Smoking Lesson: The lesson involved in this site
is focused on the harmful lung and body effects that come from smoking
cigarettes. It is not so much an anatomy lesson of the lungs, but rather a very
beneficial lung lesson on how to maintain healthy lungs and keep them strong
and reliable.
Date
visited: March 4, 2006
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/3578.html