Lesson Plan

The Human Body Lesson Plan: Middles Edition

Tour six body systems, graph your pulse, and squish crackers through a model gut.

This is the Middles Edition of The Human Body: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 4-6. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: How do your body's systems team up to keep you alive and moving?

The Week

• Mon: A Tour of the Systems (Reading) • Tue: Systems on the Move (Writing & Words) • Wed: Pulse and Exercise Lab (Science & Math) • Thu: Digestion in a Bag (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Body Systems Expo (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of The Human Body has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 4-6 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Middles (grades 4-6), about 60 to 90 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: Pulse and Exercise Lab
• Sequence cards (The Path of Food) and a cut-and-sort page (Which System?)
• Writing page: Systems on the Move
• Hands-on project: Digestion in a Bag
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 5 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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