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Explore the human body with fun and exciting activities and experiments. I have compiled a great list for you to choose from as well as some great resources and a pack I created for the hard working teachers. Check out my best selling and favorite unit on the human body (found here) and then take a look at the amazing list!

I also found a fun and educational SmartLab Package that contains everything you need to accompany all of the activities and worksheets you use when teaching about the human body. Lets make science an adventure with this squishy human body model. Keep it and use it every year for a hands on learning unit.

21 Super Fun Human Body Activities and Experiments

1. Make a blood model - Who would have thought cheerios can make good looking red blood cells? They also used marshmallows to represent white blood cells which I thought was a great idea.

2. Create a candy spinal cord - Spinal cords can be edible right? well.. not really, but in science class it can be. When you put children and candy in one room, you know what happens. This activity is definitely an attention grabber.

3. Build a model of the kidneys and bladder - You can definitely make use of a clothing rack with this project. If you have a large class, I would think it would be a good idea for the teacher to create it and then use it as a model for the students.

4. Red blood cell membrane experiment - This experiment illustrated the concept of osmosis in a fun and unique way!

5. Make model lungs - You probably have all of the materials to make this model.

6. Build a robotic hand - I remember building these hands when I was younger and It was one of my favorite activities! This will be a big hit and it does not require much material.

7. Create an edible cell - Learning about cells? How about using candy to represent the different cell organelles?

8. Working heart experiment - You will need icing and marshmallows for this one. I just love edible things! Learning and eating goes hand in hand.

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9. Make an anatomical model of the human heart - You will need modeling clay for this activity. When you begin learning about the cardiovascular system, creating a model of the heart will help them remember all of the terms and blood flow process.

10. Outdoor stem activity - how long are your small intestines? The small intestines are super long and many people don't realize it because of how it can be able to fit in the human body. You will need a garden hose, a ruler, and a tape measure for this activity but it definitely is a clever experiment when dealing with the digestive system.

11. How bile breaks down fat experiment - This is a great and simple experiment that will help demonstrate a part of the digestive system.

12. Create a model of the digestive system - This is one of my favorite models of the digestive system. They used many things you can find at home and put them together to create the model and show the process.

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Stomach digestion experiment - You will need a lemon for this simple and fast experiment. This experiment was from Sid the Science Kid and nurtering learning demonstrated the process on their site.

14. Stomach acid experiment - If you have fruit and lemon juice close by, this experiment can be a quick way to demonstrate stomach acid and how it breaks down food in your stomach.

15. Make a model of the respiratory system - Combine science and art with this cute activity!

16. Make a breathing machine - This is my ultimate favorite activity! Your students will love this from Maker Lab. Just print out the free instructions and follow the directions. So much fun.

17. Make a set of working lungs - Another fun lung activity!

18. Organ Cage Activity - If you scroll down after clicking the link to be directed to the page on our time to learn blog, you will find directions on how they created it. it is a great activity to try in class because it only needs paper, colors, tape, and scissors.

19. Create a human arm model

20. Make a Popsicle stick arm - Each person can make this stick arm that doesn't take up too much space because you will be dealing with small materials such as rubber bands and Popsicle sticks.

21. Edible skin layers cake - This is a yummy and creative project when learning about the Integumentary system. The kids will definitely love this one!

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Explore the human body with fun and exciting activities and experiments. I have compiled a great list for you to choose from as well as some great resources and a pack I created for the hard working teachers. Check out my best selling and favorite unit on the human body (found here) and then take a look at the amazing list!

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My kids and I are learning all about the human body in our homeschool. We are studying many of the body systems as well as learning about the five senses, health & nutrition, and cells.

Since the kids are young (preschool - early elementary age) this is a time for exposure and exploration more than anything else, so we are keeping things light, simple, and fun.

I've made a list of all of the body systems and topics we'd like to explore and all we do is read a book or two on the topic, do an activity that is related to the topic, maybe watch a video if we have one or find one that we like, and then add to our life-size human body poster. To make our life-size human body, we use this awesome book.

We recently finished learning about the cardiovascular system, so I thought it would be a good idea to learn a little bit more about our blood and that it would be neat to make a blood 'model' showing the different components of blood. I adapted this idea from Apologia's Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy & Physiology.

A Drop of Blood from the LET'S-READ-AND-FIND-OUT SCIENCE® BOOK SERIES was the perfect book to accompany our activity. I love this line of books. This series of books is a great place to start to cultivate a child's desire to learn and explore. The series offers books on a wide range of science topics for kids ages 4-9 - from the human body to the solar system, and everything in between!

I've teamed up with some really fantastic bloggers to bring you a collection of blog posts dedicated to this wonderful series of books. Each participating blogger has selected a LET'S-READ-AND-FIND-OUT SCIENCE® book to feature in a post, along with a related experiment, activity, or craft. Check out the list of books here, or by clicking the image below.

After we read A Drop of Blood we got to work making our blood model. Here are the things we used to create it -

PLASMA

For the plasma we used corn syrup. This is a good option because it has a slight yellow tinge to it which is very similar to real plasma. You could also use clear liquid hand soap or clear glue and drop in a little yellow food coloring. We poured this into a clear glass bowl so that we could easily view the blood and its components. I also decided to use an empty water bottle to make a version of our blood model in a bottle.

RED BLOOD CELLS

For the red blood cells we used little cinnamon candies. I guess they are called red hots or cinnamon imperials. Red blood cells make up about 40% of blood so make sure you add plenty to the corn syrup.

WHITE BLOOD CELLS

There is about one white blood cell for every 700 red blood cells, so you won't need many of these. For these we used lima beans because I already had a bag; you could also use small marshmallows or a white jelly bean.

PLATELETS

And lastly, we used white sprinkles for the platelets. I'm not quite sure what color platelets really are, so we just used white. You could also use uncooked rice. The kids may have gone a little overboard with the sprinkles (hey, who doesn't love sprinkles?) and added a little too many to our model, but as least this will be a memorable activity for them.

The book we read covered each of the components of blood, so as we added each component to our model, we discussed each one again - its name, size, amount, and purpose. The kids loved it and I'm confident that this will help them remember what the different parts of blood are. Our blood model in a bottle turned out well and it was neat flipping it back and forth watching all the components float around.

If you'd like to do a little blood unit study with your kids and would like some additional activities to go with it, here are some ideas:

What is Blood Made Of? Sensory Bin from I Can Teach My Child

The 4 Components of Blood YouTube Video

Red Blood Cell Membrane Experiment from Schooling a Monkey
Blood Lapbook
Circulatory System Worksheets from Living Life and Learning
Magic School Bus: Human Body DVD Blood Cell Cookies
Playdough Blood Cells from Our Time to Learn
Easy-to-Read Science Plays
Don't forget to check out even more LET'S-READ-AND-FIND-OUT SCIENCE® books and activities!

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Students use simple materials - rulers and marbles - to explore the conservation of momentum.

Each pair of students will need 2 rulers - make sure the rulers are of the variety that have a groove down the middle.

Students set up a simple ramp by placing one end of one ruler on a textbook. The second ruler is placed at the end of the ramp ruler, taking care to line up the center grooves. You can use a small piece of tape to keep the rulers in place.

A marble is placed where the two rulers meet. A second marble, the same size as the first, is held near the top of the ramp. The marble on the ramp is released and students observe what happens to both the first marble and the second marble.

﻿Students record how far each marble traveled after the collision (this may necessitate some additional rulers or meter sticks).

This first round may require several trials, to find the optimum spot for releasing the marble. After that spot is determined, the marble should always be released from that same spot.

After getting a feel for what happens with 2 marbles of the same size, the experimentation begins.

If you have larger and smaller marbles available, students can try various combinations of the marbles:

--a regular marble hitting a large marble

--a large marble hitting a regular marble

--a small marble hitting a regular marble

--a regular marble hitting a small marble

--a large marble hitting a small marble

--a small marble hitting a large marble

If all your marbles are of the same size, use multiple marbles:

--one marble hitting two marbles

--two marbles hitting one marble

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While all blood contains the same components and looks pretty similar to the naked eye, human blood contains microscopic markers called antigens. And if incompatible blood is mixed, it can mean the difference between life and death. In this issue, learn about different blood types, as well as their accompanying compatibilities and incompatibilities.
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Human blood is made up of four main components: red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma and platelets. Red blood cells, or erythrocytes, carry oxygen through the body and make up a little more than 44% of our blood content. White blood cells, or leukocytes, which are part of the immune system, fight disease by attacking and devouring harmful cells. Platelets, or thrombocytes, initiate blood clotting by pinching together damaged arteries. White blood cells and platelets together make up less than 1% of our blood. Liquid plasma, which makes up 55% of our blood, carries nutrients to the rest of the body.

Blood group types (A, B, AB and O) were first discovered in 1900 by Austrian Karl Landsteiner who was trying to understand why blood transfusion recipients often died. Blood typing is based on the way red blood cells clump together or agglutinate. Agglutination is caused by the presence of Anti-A and Anti-B antibodies reacting with the A and B antigens in the red blood cells. The red blood cells in Type A blood contain A antigens that clump in the presence of Anti-A antibodies, but have no reaction in the presence of Anti-B antibodies. Alternatively, the red blood cells in Type B blood have B antigens that clump in the presence of Anti-B antibodies, but do not react in the presence of Anti-A antibodies. Type AB blood contains both A and B antigens and will agglutinate with both Anti-A and Anti-B antibodies. Conversely, Type O blood contains neither A nor B antigens and will not react with either Anti-A or Anti-B antibodies. This is why people with type O blood are called universal donors, while people with blood type AB are universal recipients.

Blood Rh factor is another important blood grouping system that was discovered in the late 1930s. It gets its name because it was first discovered in the blood of rhesus monkeys. Blood can be either Rh negative or positive and simply indicates either the presence or absence of a certain antigen in the blood. Reaction with the Anti-D antibody indicates a positive Rh factor. No reaction with the Anti-D antibody indicates a negative Rh factor.

If an expectant mother is Rh-negative and the father is Rh-positive, the unborn baby can inherit its father's Rh factor. If the Rh-negative mother's blood mixes with the Rh-positive baby's, the mother's body could develop antibodies against the baby's blood. To protect the unborn baby, often the mother will receive an injection to prevent this. More than 85% of people are Rh-positive.</p><p>In summary, there are four main red blood cell types: A, B, AB and O, and each of those can be positive or negative for the Rh factor. So in all, there are eight possible blood types: A+ or A-, B+ or B-, AB+ or AB-, and O+ or O-.

Blood Compatibility Project*

Use this project to illustrate blood type compatibility. If the color of the "blood" changes, it is incompatible. If the color of the "blood" stays the same, it is compatible.

What You Need:

16 cups filled with water (four for each blood type)

Red food coloring<

Blue food coloring

Pen or pencil and paper to record data

What You Do:

1. Fill 16 cups with water.

2. Put red food coloring in four cups. They'll represent Type A blood.

3. Put blue food coloring in four cups. These will represent Type B blood.

4. Put blue and red food coloring in four more cups to make a purplish color; this will represent Type AB blood.

5. Leave only water in the last four cups; this will represent blood Type O.

6. Pour one of the red "A" blood type cups into another one of the "A" blood type cups. Since the color did not change, blood Type A is compatible for blood transfusions with blood Type A. Once you've recorded that data, discard the cup.

7. Next, pour another red "A" into a blue type "B" cup. Since the color changed to purple, Type A blood and Type B blood are not compatible. Make a note of this as well.

8. Then pour a different "A" cup into the purple AB blood type.

9. Finally, red type A will pour the last cup into type O.

10. Repeat the steps with type B, AB, and O and record the results.

What Happened:

Blood Type A can only be given to Type A and AB patients. Blood Type B can only be given to Type B and AB patients. Blood Type AB individuals can receive blood from everyone, but can only donate to other AB blood type patients. Blood Type O individuals can only receive Type O blood, but they can donate blood to every other type.

*Project adapted from www.lessonplanspage.com

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Our human body for kids unit study makes it to number one of our free e-book of ten science experiments that won't let you down!

You'll find fun activities and experiments for all ages.

As you can see, lots of ideas which make discovering the human body for kids one of the most awesome journeys you can take!

Let's start with a view of a homeschool brain!

"We made a lift the flap version of daughters body when she first started homeschool - it was fantastic fun and stayed on the wall for about a year :)" ~ Anna Marie

Homeschool Unit Study

We'll start with some human body activities for young children and move on up.

Use the cardboard tube inside a roll of paper towels for yours. Color it your favorite color.

Now try listening to each other's heart beats and see if you can count them.

See what happens when:

you lie and the floor, pretend to snore and go to sleep

you run round

Human Body Fact

The human body has an average of 5.6 liters of blood.

Take some red food coloring and add it to some water.

Get the kids to measure out the right amount in a big bucket.

You can find more water experiments in our homeschool unit study on ocean creatures.

Try an easy experiment and make some blood!

You can enjoy being Dracula for a day by making blood out of food.

Get the kids to fetch:

1. Red jelly beans for the red cells which carry oxygen

2. White jelly beans for the white cells which fight infection

3. Corn syrup or olive oil for plasma

You can get a download showing you the exact proportions of each of these you need to make human blood.

You'll find out that you'll need a lot of corn syrup!

And if you've had fun making blood, use that to spark your kids imagination to try lots more of our !

Learn body parts with felt as you sing a human body song!

"Here is a wonderful idea from makinglearningfun.com for anyone who wants a fun biology lesson for their children.

I made this from felt to teach my son body parts and what they do. You can take off each organ and add them as you sing the song. Then put the bones over top of the organs, add the skin and then the clothes to have a complete person."

You can download free printable outlines to cut out the body parts and get a copy of the song from Jo's lovely makinglearningfun.com website.

Great idea for a human body for kids project. Thanks Jo.

For older children, you can use your own body as a model.

Get your child to lie down on a large piece of paper and draw round their arms and upper torso. As my son William knows, this is where a human body for kids homeschool unit study gets ticklish!

Get a good kids book on the human body, trace round a few of the main organs and get the kids to color them in. You can make the drawings as simple as you like, or quite complex if your kids are high school age.

One great idea is to make a lift-the-flap homeschool unit study of the human body. You'll see our lungs are attached to tabs which lift up to reveal the heart.

You'll need a:

I reckon not many families come home to an eyeball on the table!

Investigate your brain.

Here's my daughter Catherine holding up the picture we traced of a human skull.

As part of your homeschool Unit Study, you can color in the areas of the brain and talk about what each does.

Human Brain Fact

The human brain is three times as big as the brain of any other similar sized mammal.

You can download this wonderful brain hemisphere and make it up as a model hat to wear! It is even available in different languages.

Go over to Ellen McHenry's Basement to get your free download.

3-D Human Body

This site requires you to log in first, but Bio-Digital Human is a great place for older kids to explore a virtual human body in 3 dimensions.

Zoom in on your left lung and discover your left salivary gland!

As you can see, our human body for kids homeschool unit study is all about getting hands-on!

Build Your Own Skeleton

Sylv and her 9 year-old daughter came up with a lovely activity building your own paper skeleton from a .

"Jayne is over the moon with her little skeleton. We have talked about Clavicle, Sternum, Humerus, Radius, Ulna, Femur, Patella, Tibia, Fibula, Phalanges, Metacarpals and carpal bones.

We even sang along to Dem Bones!"

Thank you for sharing and well done Jayne!

How To Make A Hand

Jessica is homeschooled and has specially made this video which shows you how to make a working hand. Thanks so much Jessica!

All you need is:

Card stock (cardboard is best)

3 straws

Thread or string

Scissors and glue such as Elmer's or Pritt

Sellotape (Scotch tape)

You will find how tendons work and actually get to move the fingers of your working model.

Jessica shows you exactly how to do it in her video. Brilliant.

Human Body For Kids Resources

I asked my Courageous Homeschooling Facebook Group to recommend some resources.

"I found this site online for my girls to watch as they are obsessed with the body. It's very informative and fun and they love it." ~ Alison

"My kids love Chloe and the Nurb as well :)" ~ Monica

We checked out these skeleton books by Robert Winston - really well worth having:

Get your free e-book of ten science activities that won't let you down! by clicking on the link.

The human body is an amazing place to discover.

Why not draw round your hand and find out that fingernails are actually modified hairs?

If you do the same with your feet, you'll find out that it's rare to find two feet exactly the same.

So the human body for kids is a fantastic journey of discovery just waiting for you to begin!

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Our human body for kids unit study makes it to number one of our free e-book of ten science experiments that won't let you down! You'll find fun activities and experiments for all ages. As you can see, lots of ideas which make discovering the human body for kids one of the most awesome journeys you can take!