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Sunday, 12 October 2014

The second week of our Science curriculum is all about the Human Body. The first part of the study is the internal organs. As you know, we’ve done tackled this subject a couple of times. Here are the links of our previous studies:

Introduction to Internal Organs

Puzzle and Nomenclature Cards

Different Internal Organs (Modelling using PlayDoh)

Materials we used are:

My Body from Scholastic [aff. link]
Your Body from Usborne [aff. link]
Internal Organs Nomenclature and Definition Cards
Art papers
Any material we could find in the kitchen LOL

Review of the Internal Organs

We looked at our nomenclature materials and review the different functions of the internal organs using our definition booklet (we used it as a card). Sorry for the blurry picture, it was late in the afternoon when we worked on this.

Life Size Body

Because we’ve done puzzles and modelling before, I decided to do something different this time. For this year, we made a life size representation of the body and plotted the organs. Of course, Mavi was the model (although he insisted that we should also made something for Vito)… and all our materials were sourced out from the kitchen.

We started by making an outline of his body in an art paper.

Using our tablet, we made a brain (styro), esophagus (penne) , lungs(bread toast) and heart (bell pepper).

The rest of the organs were made of penne pasta for skeleton, bag of plastic for stomach, paper craft for liver and yarn for the veins.

Our kidneys are made of jelly, the large intestine using crepe paper and the small intestine was a spaghetti (our dinner!).

This was an absolutely fun activity for both of us as we kept on laughing on the objects we used to form our internal organs. He finds it so funny to use stuff from our kitchen. And Mavi was so cooperative doing all of these! He gets bored everytime we use printed materials so it was good to have this fun activity for a change.

And here’s the end product.

We’ll continue with our study of the Human Body till next week, which will include the Skeletal System and the development of the human teeth.

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Friday, 11 October 2013

Hello everyone! Since it's the month of Halloween, we're doing a series of Halloween-related activities. And my son picked the The Human Skeleton first. We used our Human Skeleton Nomenclature Cards and a model (bought this at a Euro store).

We discuss each parts and its function/s. Here he talks about his hand bones.

We did the three lesson period and here, he matches the picture cards and the label to the control cards.

Since I have multiple pieces of those skeleton models, I cut out the parts, place them on a card stock and added label. I read the definition of each part of the skeleton as my son observes them using a magnifying glass :) Then he assembled the pieces (just like a puzzle) to form the entire human skeleton.

One activity he loved the most is the coloring and labeling of his favorite parts. He enjoys this kind of activity. This activity sheet is included in the The Human Skeleton file.

Another version of puzzle is the printed skeleton which I downloaded from here. I told him he can form the skeleton in any way he wants it, like if he wants the skeleton to run, jump,walk or just stand. You can also get a much bigger version of this puzzle from here.