Anatomy lessons science 3rd

Anatomy Unit

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This coming year we’re going to be studying anatomy, and I am super excited about it.  I’ve been pinning and storing ideas for our science lessons on my anatomy Pinterest board.  As I wrote my anatomy lesson plans (all our lessons inspired by these anatomy lessons) I organized the ideas to do for the year, and what we’re planning on doing.

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Hi! Future Ticia 2023 here, I’m updating (deleting those dead links), combining (for some reason I had another post of cool ideas I’d found), and more combining (it makes no sense to have another post with what we did). Lots of making this better, I now return you to past Ticia, who is mainly going to list lots and lots of things to use.

Useful resources for Anatomy lessons

{Amazon links are affiliate links, just being lazy about announcing for EACH one}

From the other post:

If you have elementary kids I highly recommend using Christian Kids Explore Biology*, it goes into about the perfect level of detail for elementary kids.  We used this for their spine when the boys were in 5th grade and Princess was 3rd grade (age-wise).

If you have junior high or upper elementary kids I would recommend using Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology*.  We used this book when my kids were in lower elementary and the material was too much for them, but I think it would be perfect for a junior high student.

In addition, we used:

  • The Magic School Bus: The Complete Series– this has lots of human anatomy episodes to watch
  • Human Body Model– this is the closest I can find to what I got, and it was great for showing relative positions
  • Skeletons in the Closet Game– great way to find out how the bones all go together
  • The Magic School Bus: A Journey into the Human Body– I picked this up on clearance at Barnes and Noble about 2 years ago (yes some things I plan that far ahead).  It has a great poster in it that’s about kid size, and several suggestions for hands on experiments.  If you’re not wanting to spend a year studying anatomy this could be the way to go for you.
  • The Magic School Bus: Human Body– I’m a big fan of Magic School Bus books, and they’ve got several on the human body, this is a generic one, which I’ll check if my library has, or half price books.
  • Exploring Creation Human Anatomy JUNIOR Notebooking Journal– Last year the Junior Notebooking Journal was a great fit, and I think it’s going to be again.  I’m planning on adding in the vocabulary questions we didn’t do last year.  I think this might be our last year using their notebooking journal, because I’m hoping by next year they can notebook completely on their own.
  • My body map– if you have the time to make it yourself, great idea
  • Body systems review game– quick and easy printable

All of our many anatomy lessons

I wrote about our anatomy lessons a lot, and while these were completed when the kids were in 3rd grade, we repeated some activities again in 5th grade, and many would be great with middle school kids.

Skeletal System

Muscular System

Digestive System and Nutrition

Respiration System

I actually had several activities, but most of them went horribly wrong, instead that led to my writing what to do when your science experiment goes wrong.

Circulatory System

Nervous System

Okay, that is all of our anatomy ideas from when we studied anatomy a full decade ago! YIKES! How is that a decade ago?????

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Cells and DNA anatomy ideas

Skeletal System anatomy ideas

Muscles anatomy ideas

Digestive System anatomy ideas

Nutrition, renal system,  and anatomy ideas

anatomy ideas for Apologia science

Germs, disease, and lymphatic system anatomy ideas

Respiratory System ideas

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Circulatory System anatomy ideas

Nervous system anatomy ideas

Your 5 Senses Ideas

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Skin and hair anatomy ideas

Growth and Development Anatomy Ideas

Photo from Tiffany Terry and used with permission.  The picture had text added and was slightly cropped.

And just for myself, I originally published this August 4, 2013


Comments

13 responses to “Anatomy Unit”

  1. This is a great list of links. I pinning this one.

    1. Thanks! I’m hoping to add in more with a second post.

  2. I’ll pin this post to my anatomy Pinterest board! Great list.

    1. Thanks! I’m gonna get the rest added in a second post. That’s my hope. I need to finish my lesson plans, and I’d gotten them worked on when I didn’t have internet.

  3. maryanne @ mama smiles Avatar
    maryanne @ mama smiles

    This post is awesome. I am so impressed with all the anatomy themed resources you have pulled together for this post! Pinning to my science for kids board.

    1. I actually had a bunch more I’d planned on sharing, but just was too tired and worn out to share them all. I’ll probably go through and create a second post on this, because this one is already pretty long.

      I felt slightly embarrassed when I realized I’d forgotten to put the “pinnable image” in here.

  4. I love this list! We are doing anatomy this year too.

  5. This is a great resource. Have you tried the free apps? Brain 3D is a good one, and iCell would be another one.

    1. I’ll look into those, I’m not very good at finding apps, and have very mixed results on those. Part of why I love your site, I’ve donwloaded many of the free ones you’ve suggested.

  6. […] week I shared with you over 30 anatomy ideas, but I got tired, and didn’t have the time/ability to finish my post with all of our plans for […]

  7. Looks like you will have a lot of fun this year! I am pinning this post…

  8. Natalie PlanetSmarty Avatar
    Natalie PlanetSmarty

    Wow, literally a decade ago! Where did the time go??? I am glad you are updating these posts – they can be such a useful resource for the families that are just starting on their homeschooling journey.

  9. […] (yes even me!) But, they are aimed at elementary and middle school-aged children. Add them to your anatomy lessons […]

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