, Distance learning is hard. Period. You want your kids to be engaged in fun activities to keep their minds off of this craziness and yet, you also want them to get quality content, all while you are not there to help them. We were essentially on our last unit before all of this hit. It covers a wide variety of topic from plant reproduction to human body systems, to levels of organization. Last week, we did a into to human body systems with a web quest. In the next coming weeks, we will be exploring a number of human body systems through some guided activities. Especially with distance learning, I try to up the scaffolding by making by instructions VERY clear and in a step by step manner so it is easy to follow for the kids. So, I am a 9th grade (mostly) Texas biology teacher. If you are also in Texas, you know that STAAR (our high stakes testing) was canceled this year, YAY! Now, while human body systems are not really in the 9th grade TEKS (they are a 7th grade one) you also know that STAAR questions show up EVERY year with multiple questions about them, and the fact that kids need to know how their bodies function. So we usually cover it to some extent anyway. But the silver lining of all of this is that we get to cover more of the human body systems in more depth than normal. Hooray for silver linings. If you are a middle school teacher or an anatomy teacher, this will also work for you as well. I will work on first making the middle school/9th grade versions of these and then I will go back and up the ante for my Anatomy and Physiology and upper level friends. But for right now, these 6 activities are something that our students can easily do and have fun! I am a proponent of the 5E model, so I organized the activities by that as well. So down to the details. Engage Activities: Activity #1: Students will measure their resting heart rate using BPM (no equipment required for any part of this lab) Activity #2: Students then measure their exercise pulse using jumping jacks. Activity #3: Exercise pulse is measured using a family member of friend (in same household of course) There are discussion questions which has students relate their experiences back to the circulatory system Explore Activity: Activity #4: Using this website (flash is needed, but usually runs fine on Chromebooks), students will first read about the different components on the circulatory system and answer guided questions. Then, students will trace the pattern of a RBC through the body and summarize the travel pattern of a RBC. Explain Activity: Activity #5: Teachers can download the article from NewsELA (one of my favorite sites) "What animal has the weirdest heart?" or have students login to their accounts. I recommend printing the article as a PDF and then uploading it to your platform (I use Google classroom). Student can then annotate on paper or use the Kami or Dochub extensions to annotate the article using the guide. There are also guided questions for students. Elaborate Activity: Activity #6: One of the ways that STAAR usually tests students in through the interactions between different body systems. Here students will read a paragraph on running and then use a graphic organizer to give examples of how those body systems work in conjunction with the circulatory system. I will be assigning this on Friday of this week, and it will be due for my kids the following Friday. This will be the only assignment for the week as their is multiple sections for them to complete. If you would like to purchase this lesson, it is on my Teachers pay Teachers account here
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