SFUSD SLANT Inspired Lesson - Body Study

Lesson Summary

What overarching understandings are desired?  

How do we observe?

What is the goal or big idea?

The children will be able to identify some of their body parts inside and out, and understand their bodies enable them to observe, experience and learn about their world.

Learning Objectives

What will students understand as a result of this lesson?  What learning objectives do you have for your students? 

Students will:

• Know ...there is an outside and an inside to their bodies and these parts correspond to different ways we can experience our world.
• Be able to ...Identify and use their five senses in the classroom experience. 
• Understand ...the concept inside and outside as it relates to their body
• Demonstrate ...

Evidence of Learning

Children will be able to identify and depict the different parts of their body.

Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills

Given the targeted understandings and the identified assessment evidence:

• What knowledge do students need before the lesson?
• The children need to have the understanding of basic spatial awareness and concepts such as inside and outside.
  

• What skills do students need before the lesson? 
• The children will need to use their bodies to demonstrate their functions have studied with regards to their internal organs and body parts; breathe in, hold their breath, blow up a balloon, touch their bones, show the rate of their heartbeat...

Standards Addressed

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Lesson Content

Outline teaching and learning experiences, below, that will equip students to demonstrate the targeted understandings.

Anticipatory Set

Take inventory of body parts, read stories of bodily function such as My Five Senses by Aliki, Everyone Poops, by Taro Gomi

Modeling of Procedures by Teacher

Teacher sets up many experiences for the students to engage in their learning of the body including:  how to count and tally the body parts related to our senses, teaches and sings songs related to body parts, plays twister, sets up a medical clinic in dramatic play area ,with stethoscope, anatomical charts, doctor and nurse smocks, conducts aerobic activities and asks children to count heartbeats, uses balloons to demonstrate lung capacity, uses mirrors to look inside at sense organs on face and inside mouth, uses rubber bands to illustrate muscle response, look at x-rays of  different animals and more!

Activity or Practice of Content

Create a paper doll cutout for children to cut and depict the outside and the inside of the body including the skeletal system, the circulatory system, the digestive system. 

Reflection/Processing/Closure

Materials and Resources

• Books related to topic

• puzzles relating to topic

Vocabulary

• inside, outside
• senses, smell, feel, hear, see, taste, observe
• bones, blood, lungs, x-ray