Monday, August 29, 2011
Today in our shared school morning we took a closer look at the organs inside our bodies and what they do...
Lungs....
Then we moved on to the digestive system. First they wiped off their tongues with paper towels before sampling a dry cracker. Without saliva on their tongues, they were unable to taste it! Fascinating! Then they broke up some bananas and strawberries as their teeth would, put them in a jug, added some water for saliva, and blitzed! I love the wonder on Miss K's face!
They poured this ever so lowly into glasses, just like the stomach would release it into their small intestines! Delicious!
To examine peristalsis, they tried to push an apple through a sock - the same way food is forced into their stomachs.... and then to further illustrate that food doesn't fall down into their stomach, they did some handstands and bends to show they could still successfully swallow a cracker....
Then (for some Language Arts) they listened to each other's stomach and tried to describe the sounds they could hear...
Then they measured out how long an adult's small intestine could be, and cut out a piece of string and tried to show how it would fit into my abdomen!
Then after a snack time and some stories, we played this Body Bingo game:
It really is fantastic - it comes with three different difficulty levels, and for these two children I just named the organs straight out. (Warning, this took FOREVER to download, no idea why, so persevere!)
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| Here they are preparing their boards, choosing the organs they want to place on their own Bingo Boards |
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| Coloring in to come! |
Have you done any fun experiments lately?
Lovely links that inspired me for this day:
- hands on digestion activities
- here's a great game we played looking at video clips inside the body
- digestion experiments for kids
- Body Bingo
- Body trivia
- A story of digestion particularly suited to kids who like 'yucky' things!
- A great slide show complete with riddles
WOW Karen, this is awesome. Looks like so much fun learning. They aren't going to forget this any time soon! Well Done
Looks great thanks for the links.... We will do some of these.... Looks like lots of fun.
This looks great Karen! I'm going to copy this, if you don't mind. Thanks for sharing. Been wondering how to make it fun.
Ah we having some fun with this to - Thanks for the great links. Shell