The body is one big life-sized puzzle! A hands-on lesson builds on the idea and has individuals create life-size models of the body including all important organs of the digestive, circulatory, and respiratory systems. After building their models, they use them to respond to a writing prompt describing the function of one of these systems. 

Concepts

organ systems, the heart, lungs, intestines, the digestive system, the circulatory system, the respiratory system, the stomach

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Additional Tags

science

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Instructional Ideas

• Incorporate as a performance task after studying the organ systems

Classroom Considerations

• Requires a thorough understanding of the anatomy of the different body systems
• Suggest learners dress appropriately for an active lesson
• The lesson is 15th in a 21-part series on plant and body systems
  

Pros

• Provides a pupil handout with the important organs to use with the activity
• Includes a teaching guide to help plan for the lesson

Cons

• None