Are you looking for a family project for your elementary aged children? Let your teens help prep the lessons, too! Elementary children often obsess over cooties. Let's teach them about germs using glitter. If you are preparing anatomy lessons for a bigger group or Co-op, consider investing in a Glo Germs kit and has an excellent lesson with a little history tossed in. (Amazon sells a UV flashlight and Glo lotion for less.) Here's my inspiration to craft fake germs. When I do an outreach event, I bring the book, Germs Make Me Sick and fake germs with my Glo Germ kit. Tracking a Virus is a terrific tool to teach contagious diseases. Home Training Tools sells the phenolphthalein for the lab. Here is a Germs lapbook available to download free.
Let's launch anatomy with Body Bingo and see what your kids already know. I love these anatomy t-shirts to color. I'm dying to try this with my Biology class this fall. Before you print copies of the human skeleton or other body organs, let's build models! Make this model of the lungs and explain how the balloon is analogous to the diaphragm. Video a 'shoe and tell' of your kids making and demonstrating the model for your electronic portfolio. Let's see how the heart pumps blood. Make up a big batch of clay and go to down sculpting ears, eyeballs, brain, or heart.
Try some physiology experiments: the Stroop Effect (from Neuroscience For Kids), test muscle fatigue, measure CO2 output, and gauge your reflexes. The entire family can do these labs together. I
If you want to make this project more consistent with Project-Based Learning, consider taking this show on the road. Field test some of the labs at home and then lead your home-school Co-op through the different labs or show-case your anatomy models. Write your own blog and share your photos. The blog can be part of your electronic portfolio.
Can't get enough? Apologia has an anatomy and physiology course for elementary aged students. Live and Learn has a free sample notebook for Anatomy.
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