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Human anatomy ideas for kids

Human anatomy is a fun topic to teach to kids and one they are very curious about.  It’s also a subject that can very easily be made hands on.  Human anatomy was one of my favorite homeschool science lessons.

Teaching human anatomy to kids

To make it easy for you to find all of our human anatomy ideas for kids I’m dividing the posts up by systems.

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Table of Contents

  • Materials used for teaching human anatomy to kids
  • Skeletal System
  • Muscular System
  • Digestive System and Nutrition
  • Respiration system
  • Circulatory system
  • Nervous System

Materials used for teaching human anatomy to kids

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 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

 

Skeletal System

 

learning about the bones in your body

parts of the bone model

learn the names of the bones

teaching first aid: how to treat a broken bone

Why are our bones strong?

 

Muscular System

learn about muscles through exercise

learn about muscles through exercise

hands on muscles lesson

 

Digestive System and Nutrition

finding fats in foods experiment

Dental health lesson

What food has starches in it?

Finding fats in foods

 

Respiration system

what to do when your experiment fails

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.

Respiratory system model

 

Circulatory system

Circulatory system game

Make a model of blood

Learning about blood types

Teach First Aid to kids

Make an edible heart model

Circulatory system game

 

Nervous System

Hands on science the nervous system

Brain cell model

Playdough brain model

Learn about the brain activities

How to make a candy spine

 

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

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