Our Human Body

Digestive System:

This is the kooky video that we watched in class.  You drag a food over to the mouth and watch how it travels down the digestive tract.  See what gets broken down and absorbed by the body at each step. How your body digests different foods

*****If you were not in class when we watched the video above, this one will be easier to start with.

Another video about the digestive system http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/_bfs_DSmoviesource.html

More reading about the digestive system (if interested).

What does each part do?  - move your mouse over each part of the system to see what it is called and what it does.

Pathway of digestion quiz    try out this self-test and see how you do with remembering the steps of digestion.

Another digestion game

kids digestion search

This page will have ongoing references for our study of some of the systems of the human body and ultimately cells.

The Lungs and Breathing:

a video about what happens in our lungs

This page has some other links about the lungs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/

http://www.wartgames.com/themes/humanbody/lungs.html

Blood and the Bloodmobile:

Today we looked at the make-up of the blood and talked about some of the functions or jobs of the blood in our body. 

All of this is summed up in a great song by "They Might Be Giants" called The Bloodmobile.  Watch it again and see

if you remember all of the functions it mentions.  Some of these we will return to in more detail as we continue learning

about the systems that make up our bodies.

Cartoon video about the blood and how the heart works.

Cells:  There is another video by the same group that sings about cells.  If you're interested it is also fun.

Digestion:  go to this page for the video we watched in class and many more activities and resources.

Organ systems:

This is the video we watched in class.  It is from the National Geographic and is an overview of some of the systems of the human body.

Organs:

• Organs Game - try this out and see how well you do placing the organs we learned about in class. You will have to rotate them to get them in the proper direction before you can place them.

See if you can correctly place the following:  The heart, stomach, liver, small intestine, large intestine, kidneys, lungs.  Try any of the other organs and see how you do!

Skeleton - we did not do anything with the skeleton, but here is a game to play.  Read the instructions and try to put Mr. Bones back together.