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.
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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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
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
teaching first aid: how to treat a broken bone
Muscular System
learn about muscles through exercise
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
Learn about the brain activities
Photo from Tiffany Terry and used with permission. The picture had text added and was slightly cropped.