Books with title How Your Body Works

This imaginatively conceived activity box teaches children about the human body. It contains components kids can assemble and use to perform simple activities that vividly demonstrate how body organs function. The kit includes plastic models of arteries and veins, replicas of eyeballs, lungs, a brain, and a miniature plastic human skeleton with detachable bones. Also included are a simple funnel, balloons, and other items that boys and girls can use to demonstrate body organs in action. A 32-page, illustrated, easy-to-follow book shows how to perform each activity. For example, to demonstrate how the human heart pumps blood through the body, kids are instructed to fill a balloon with water and attach it to the end of a plastic tube that is also supplied in the kit. Next, kids rhythmically squeeze the balloon to pump the water through the tube, much like the way the heart pumps blood through an artery. Body parts are explained in language understandable to younger children, with descrip

How Your Body Works covers these concepts:-bodies change as they grow older-the body has external and internal parts-the brain controls the body and is the center of thinking-we use five senses to find out about our world-the body has lungs for breathing-the body digests food for energy-the heart pumps blood throughout the body-bones support and help move the body, muscles help the body move.A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that students can understand. Each concept presented includes:-teacher directions for lessons-reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigationsThis resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key.