Dem Bones, Dem Bones (Skeletal System Activities)

Enjoy this (nearly) wordless post

and links to our time spent on the skeletal system-

the grand finale of our 

Human Body Study...

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Intro to the skeletal System through the following

YouTube videos:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

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Overall review of the Skeletal System with the

Giant Science Resource Book...

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AIMS "Bone Biopsy"

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Discussing what gives a bone

its strength by stepping on a cola can

when it is full

and then when it is empty...

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Making a model of a cross-section of a bone

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Creating a skeletal model from the

Giant Science Resource Book...

Ain't no bones about it-

we enjoyed our time

learning about the human body!

See all of our Human Body

activities by clicking HERE.

Find even more inspiration on my

Human Body Pinterest Page.

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Wearing My Heart on My...Shirt (Organ Systems Review)

I am finally coming to a close

on our Human Body study-

that we completed in the Winter/Spring

of 2014.

(Geez...)

Anyways-

After we completed our study of the

major organ systems,

we decided to spend a week or so

with a bit of creative review.

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One Friday we met up with our 

Lemonhead Homeschool Group friends

and played a raucous game of-

what else...

...Operation!

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The next week,

we began working on creating...

...Paint Your Own Organs

T-Shirts!

(I am telling ya friends, the

Relentlessly Run, Deceptively Educational blog

has been a AWESOME source of inspiration for me

in several different homeschool units-

GO AND FOLLOW THIS BLOG

IF YOU DO NOT ALREADY!!!)

:0)

While we waited for layers to dry...

 ...the kiddos completed the organ review book

that is included at this post.

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Confession Time:

It took us about 3 weeks to get these shirts finished.

We did move on in out Human Body study

before we completed the shirts, though.

It just took us a while, with all the other

activities going on in our schedules at the time-

and I wanted to make sure the layers

dried in between organs...

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Here is the finished product!

Looking good!

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To read about the other human body activities

we have completed,

just click HERE...

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You are What You Eat! (Digestive System Activities)

OK-

how about I FINALLY get back to our

Human Body Science activities?

MAN- working full time time is seriously interrupting my

blog scheduling... ;0)

Back in February,

the kiddos and I delved into learning about

the Digestive System one week.

Here are the activities we used

to learn more about our

"internal pluming"...

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We began our study by watching...

...THIS three part video about the Digestive System.

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After reading more about the small and large intestines,

using our

AIMS From Head to Toe study book...

...we used yarn to measure the length

of a person's intestines.

Thick yarn for the large intestines,

normal sized yarn for the small...

According to our reading and measurements,

the total length of my middle child's intestines

was *almost" as long as the length of our house!

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A grossly informative experiment we did

in relation to the digestion of food in the human body

is called

Digestion Details...

Using simple household ingredients...

...we created a Bolus.

(chewed soft food moistened by saliva that forms a ball)

(Yeah- GROSS...)

We added more ingredients to see what the food

would look like and feel like

as it passes through the stomach...

Here is a pic of our food before the

digestive system and after the digestive system...

YUCK!!!

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Check out other lessons we completed

to learn more about the Human Body by clicking

HERE...

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