FREE: Teacher Resource EvanMoor How Your Body Works, Grades 1-3

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For hands-on activities involving life cycles, anatomy, body systems, and the senses that connect science with real life, choose How Your Body Works. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, 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

Activities help children practice skills in: observation, analysis, communication, making comparisons, prediction, critical thinking, and recording. Areas of study address major themes such as: change, structure, function, diversity, and cause and effect.

Samples of the hands-on learning experiences:
conduct blindfolded taste, smell, and hearing tests
count and record heartbeat during various activities
put together a skeleton puzzle
do an experiment to understand how respiration works

Contains many reproducible, ready-to-go resources, such as record sheets, logbook forms, minibooks, and picture cards. Illustrated throughout with fun, yet accurate line art. All 80 pages perforated for easy removal.