Share
Each of our body systems are interconnected and dependent on each other. Our heart, which is part of our circulatory system, does not beat unless our brain, which is part of our nervous system, tells it to. Our skeletal system is dependent on our digestive system for increase in size and strength. Our muscular system needs our respiratory and circulatory systems to supply energy in the form of oxygen and nutrients. It takes all the systems for human growth and development.
Sample some of the following activities to learn more about human body systems.
People
To See Things To Do Teacher
Resources Bibliography
Places To GoThe following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out about human body systems.
Body
Quest
This informative site allows you to take a tour of the human body and learn about its different systems. The site contains many graphics, such as a body map, as well as alphabetical and categorical indexes for easy navigation.
This informative site allows you to take a tour of the human body and learn about its different systems. The site contains many graphics, such as a body map, as well as alphabetical and categorical indexes for easy navigation.
Can
Teach: Body Systems Links
Check out this site that indexes a plethora of links about each of the various body systems.
Check out this site that indexes a plethora of links about each of the various body systems.
The Human Heart
Virtually explore the heart. When you were born, your heart weighed less than an ounce. A human adult's heart weighs about 12 ounces. An elephant's heart weighs about 44 pounds. A blue whale's heart is about the size of a small car and weighs about 1500-1600 pounds!
Virtually explore the heart. When you were born, your heart weighed less than an ounce. A human adult's heart weighs about 12 ounces. An elephant's heart weighs about 44 pounds. A blue whale's heart is about the size of a small car and weighs about 1500-1600 pounds!
Yikes! Your
Body Up Close
Visit your public or school library and find this book by Mike Janulewicz. This book has amazing close-up photographs of interesting parts of your body. You won't believe what your tastebuds look like up close and personal.
Visit your public or school library and find this book by Mike Janulewicz. This book has amazing close-up photographs of interesting parts of your body. You won't believe what your tastebuds look like up close and personal.
Your
Gross and Cool Body
This site poses the question "What makes the human body work?" Follow Wendell Worm and his friend Dora as they explore gross body sounds and yucky body parts to answer that question.
This site poses the question "What makes the human body work?" Follow Wendell Worm and his friend Dora as they explore gross body sounds and yucky body parts to answer that question.
People To SeeAsk
the Professionals - Yahoo Health
Find information on wellness, diet, fitness, weight loss, mental health, anti-aging, conditions & diseases, drugs and medications.
Find information on wellness, diet, fitness, weight loss, mental health, anti-aging, conditions & diseases, drugs and medications.
Joseph Lister
Learn about the Dr. Lister who promoted sterilizing instruments before surgery who helped reducing deaths.
Learn about the Dr. Lister who promoted sterilizing instruments before surgery who helped reducing deaths.
Things To DoBBC:
The Human Body
Take a look inside your body and find out about the nervous, circulatory, skeletal, and digestive systems. Click on parts of the body you want more information on and learn all about them.
Take a look inside your body and find out about the nervous, circulatory, skeletal, and digestive systems. Click on parts of the body you want more information on and learn all about them.
Famous
Left-Handers
Which part of our nervous system decides if we are right or left handed? The last 4 presidents of the United States have been left-handed: Bill Clinton, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford! Do you sense a pattern? Are there any presidential candidates for 2000 who are left-handed?
Which part of our nervous system decides if we are right or left handed? The last 4 presidents of the United States have been left-handed: Bill Clinton, George Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Gerald Ford! Do you sense a pattern? Are there any presidential candidates for 2000 who are left-handed?
The Hosford
Muscle Tables: Skeletal Muscles of the Human Body
Check out this site that contains detailed information about the muscles of the human body. It even has a clickable body muscle map that enables you to click on a part of the body to learn more about the muscles of that area.
Check out this site that contains detailed information about the muscles of the human body. It even has a clickable body muscle map that enables you to click on a part of the body to learn more about the muscles of that area.
Inner
Body: The Skeletal System
Check out this cool skeletal diagram that features all kinds of facts about bones, ligaments, and tendons.
Check out this cool skeletal diagram that features all kinds of facts about bones, ligaments, and tendons.
The
Real Deal on the Digestive System
Trace your lunch all through your digestive system with information from this site.
Trace your lunch all through your digestive system with information from this site.
Teacher Resources Online Activities/Hotlists are a listing of internet
sites with fun, interesting, and educational tasks attached to each one.
(You can learn how to use this WWW
Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Virtual Field Trips are teacher and student-created
tours of curricular topics. (You can learn how to use this UEN Virtual
Field Trip tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Bibliography
- Avison, Brigid. I wonder Why I Blink and Other Questions About My Body. New York: Kingfisher Books, c1993.
- Cole, Joanna. The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body. New York : Scholastic Inc., c1988.
- Ganeri, Anita. How Do We Know What's Inside Us? Austin, Tex.: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, c1995.
- Hanson, Jeanne K. Your Amazing Body: From Headaches to Sweaty Feet and Everything in Between. New York: Scientific American Books for Young Readers, 1994.
- Morgan, Sally. The Human Body. New York: Kingfisher, 1996.
- Parker, Steve. The Human Body. New York: Gloucester Press, 1993.
- Parsons, Alexandra. An Amazing Machine. New York: Franklin Watts, c1996.
- Peacock, Graham. The Super Science Book of Our Bodies. New York: Thomson Learning, 1993.
- Sanders, Pete. Bodyworks. London; New York: Franklin Watts, c1997.
- Walker, Richard. The Children's Atlas of the Human Body: Actual Size Bones, Muscles, and Organs in Full Color. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, c1994.
- Williams, Frances. Human Body. New York: DK Pub., 1997.