In this lesson, we are going to introduce the students with one of the most important organs in human body - Lungs. To let the students understand the mechanism of lungs better, we are going to have two activities: 1. Lung Modeling. In this activity, the students are going to build a model for lungs on their own. Meanwhile, an already built lung model will be provided for the students to get a basic idea of how lung works. 2. Measure Lung Capacity. In this activity, we are going to measure the lung capacity of the students'. Lung Capacity is an important indicator for the health statue of our lungs. We are going to do the measurements in our prepared home-made stations. Each students will have 3 measurements in total recorded by themselves.
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In this lesson, we are going to introduce the students with one of the most important member of the immune system of human - the snot. The key of this class will be the simulation of how snot works and the reporduction of snot. We will reproduce the snot with recipe #1 in the lesson plan. While the fake snot sit and thicken, we will explore the immune system futher with activities #1 and/or #3 in the activities file attached. Activity #1 introduces the functioning of human skin in the immune system. Activity #3 introduce the students with the idea of their own health journal.
In this lesson, we are going to introduce the students to another very important system of human body - the Digestive System. The important take-aways are: 1. The composition of the digestive system; 2. The role of the digestive system in human body; We are going to explore the topic by 3 activities: 1. The simulation of the Digestive System. In this activity, we are going to traverse the path of food going through our body and simulate the role of each part of the digestive system. 2. Length of the Digestive System. In this activity, we are going to remind the students of the length of the path of food will go through in our digestive system. With activity one, reinforce the knowledge of digestive system. 3. The Esophagus - Peristalsis. In this activity, we are going to introduce the role of our muscles in transporting food.
In this lesson, we are going to introduce the students to one of the most important organs in human body - heart. There are several important points that we should emphasis: 1. The position and the basic functions of heart; 2. The mechanism that heart works; 3. Heart is important to human body. To explore the topic more thoroughly, we are going to give the students 2 activities: 1. Room Analogy. We are going to demonstrate a model of heart to the student and help them to build their own model; 2. Stent and clogged arteries. We are going to introduce the students to the idea of stent and clogged arteries and simulate the both situations. This can help them understand the importance of healthy diet.
This week, we are going to introduce the students to the circulatory system of human. There are several key takeaways: 1. The Composition of Circulatory System; 2. The Contents Circulatory System transport; 3. The Functioning of Heart; 4. The Difference between Veins and Arteries. We are going to explore the topic by 3 activities: 1. Understand How Heart Works. We are going to explain the composition of the hearts and simulate how it pumps blood with a pump. 2. Create Your Own Blood. We are going to recompose our blood with different elements according to three different description. 3. Create a Cardiac Cycle.
In this lesson, we are going to introduce the students to the basic functioning of muscles and bones in the human body. There are three key take-away points: 1. The purpose of bones, muscles, and tendons; 2. How skeletons and muscles work together; 3. Know the existence and difference of three types of muscles; The lesson will be divided into three parts: 1. Model Elbow. We are going to simulate the functioning of elbow; 2. Types of Muscles. We are going to introduce the three types of muscles by observing the cells of different muscles; 3. Bones. We are going to outline the bones in different colors.
Following the lesson on human visions, we turn our attention to the reflexes and reaction of our body. Reflexes are the instinctive reactions and movements of our body to the stimuli while reactions are the conscious decisions we make to the stimuli. The reflexes are almost instant, but when we are reacting to the outside world, the reaction time is different for everyone. We are going to explore the this topic by experimenting some reflexes of our body and using reaction tests to measure the reaction time. The Reflexes we experiment are: 1. Experimenting Knee Jerk Reflex; 2. Experimenting Blinking; 3. Experimenting Pupillary Reflex; The Tests we conduct include: 1. Visual test, the students are to grab the ruler as soon as see it is released; 2. Auditory test, the students are to grab the ruler as soon as they hear the word "released" while being blindfolded; 3. Tactile test, the students are to grab the ruler as soon as their non-dominant shoulder is touched while being blindfolded
This fall we are exploring science concerning the human body. We kicked off this theme with a lesson on vision. Students explored the purpose of the principle parts of the human eye by: 1.) Testing their pupillary reflex 2.) Investigating the focusing properties of a gelatin analogue of a lens 3.) Identifying their blind spot 4.) Testing their depth perception After lesson notes: The gelatin lenses did not hold up in student's hands for very long. If this experiment is to be repeated, the lenses should be kept cold until handling or else made of something tougher
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