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Ms. Amy

👂🏼 👅 May 25: STEAM: Our Body 👁 👃🏾

Our bodies are amazing! My Amazing Body video will have you moving as you discover many parts of your body, brain, heart, lungs, stomach, bones, and muscles.

What is under your skin?

Print out the four body systems coloring sheets, Window into the body. Color each layer - organs, muscles, skeleton, skin. Tape the organs sheet to a sunny window - only tape the top of the paper. Next, place the skeleton sheet on top of the organs sheet and tape the top. Do the same with the muscles and last add the skin page to the top. What is under the skin? Your muscles! What is under the muscles? The skeleton. Your muscles cover your skeleton and organs. What is under the muscles? Your skeleton or bones. Your bones protect the organs in your body.

Body Parts Tracing

Have someone trace your body with chalk or on paper. What could you use for body parts? What could you use for your bones that is strong? Blocks? Legos? What could you use for your brain, heart and stomach? Take a picture of your finished body and send it to Ms. Laurel!

Measure your body!

Now that you have created your body, we can determine what is the longest part of your body. What items could you use to measure your body besides a ruler or measuring tape? Let’s also estimate how long you think your body parts are. How long is your foot? 12 lego bricks long? 4 spoons long? Can you estimate how long your arm is? How about both arms together? Were you correct? What about your legs? How long is your whole body?

What’s inside your body?

Can you take ingredients like a dried apricot, uncooked and cooked spaghetti, a dried cranberry and dried kidney, lima or jelly beans and make body parts out of them? Print out the body sheet. What ingredient would you use for a brain? Where is the brain located on the body? Place it on the body sheet.

What could you use for bones? Why? Where would they go on the body? Where would the heart go? What would you use? How about the stomach? Why did you pick that ingredient? Body parts

Why do we have bones?

Watch this video to find out why bones and muscles are important in our body. Muscles and Bones

The bones in our body are called the skeletal system. The skeletal system gives strength to our body so we don't just flop around like a jellyfish. We have 206 bones in our body. Each bone has a job. Some bones offer protection to fragile parts of the body like our heart. Other bones help us to move around by providing support for our muscles. Bone facts

Here’s a fun song about how our bones are connected Skeleton Dance

Could you build a skeleton out of different sized Q-tips, or dried pasta?

Print out the skeleton skull or make your own. Plan how you would like your skeleton to look. Be sure to include a spine, ribs, fingers, arms (two lower arm bones are the radius and ulna, and they connect to the humerus - our upper arm bone) and add legs (two lower leg bones are the tibia and fibula and they connect to the femur - our strong upper leg bone).

Send a picture to Ms. Laurel! Skeleton Craft

Can you make a person out of playdough? Roll out a head, body, arms and legs. Connect all your pieces together. Now stand your person up. Can he stand?

What does he need to help him stand? You need to add some bones! Take your person apart and use small pieces of straw. Roll some playdough around 2 straws to make arms and then connect them to the body. Do the same to make legs. Now can your person stand? Yes!

We need bones to help our muscles stand straight and tall.

Why are lungs important?

Our lungs are part of the respiratory system. They are in our chest and are pink and squishy. We have two lungs and we need them to breathe oxygen. Here’s a video on how our lungs work. Breathe In, Breathe Out

You can make lungs using paper lunch bags and explore the respiratory system.

In this project you will need: 2 paper lunch bags, 2 straws, strong tape, and a black marker. First draw a lung on each bag. Open 1 bag and place a straw 2”-3” inside. Gather the top of the bag around the straw. Tape it tightly. Make sure there is a good seal. Do this with the other bag and straw as well. Now blow into the straws together.

What is happening to the bag? Your lungs are filling up with air just like when you breathe in. What happens when you stop blowing on the straw? The lungs are deflating just like if you are breathing out. Paper Bag Lungs

What happens to the food you eat?

Food travels from your mouth and is digested by all of the different organs before being removed from the body as waste. This is called the digestive system. Your digestive system works hard to give your body energy from the food you eat.

In this activity you will add food to a bag and watch what happens during digestion. Duct tape the 3 sealed sides of a ziplock bag. The bag is your “stomach”. Open the bag and add some cereal, crackers, pudding or jello. What does the food look like in the stomach before it is digested? Can you draw a picture of it? Now it’s time for the digestive system to do its job. Squish the food in the bag a lot. Now what does the food look like in the stomach after digestion? Can you draw it? Digestive System

Listen to your heart

What materials could you use to create your own stethoscope to listen to people’s hearts? You could use a paper towel or toilet paper tube, a funnel and strong tape. Once made, listen to your parents or siblings' heartbeat. Do you think it will be fast or slow? Can you clap the beats to hear the rhythm? Now have them do 10 jumping jacks. What do you predict will happen to their heartbeat? Will the speed of the heartbeat be the same as before? What about your heart?

Have them listen to your heartbeat and clap the rhythm. Do you think your heartbeat will be faster or slower than your parents? How about after you did 10 jumping jacks? Was it the same? A child's heart normally beats faster than an adult's and much faster after exercise. Stethoscope Craft