Apr. 26, 2007 - Learning About Germs - Online Resources

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Lots of online resources about germs.  Please be careful when viewing any website.  Even though they all looked fine they may change or something may have slipped by me (imagine that!).  Also, some of them mention vaccinations.

What Are Germs?

Why Do I Need To Wash My Hands?

Infection Detection Protection

Examine Germs like a medical technician

The World of Germs - Pre-K through 2nd grade

Germs, Germs, Everywhere!


Parents of Kids With Infectious Diseases - Activities and stories for all ages

Teaching Children About Food Safety

What is E.coli?


Preschoolers learn about Germs
- Has a few personal hygiene songs - cute

Henry the Hand - Champion Handwasher!

The Scrub Club

Health Conscious Activities for young children
- by Texas Department of State Health Services.
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Apr. 25, 2007 - Human Skin - Online Resources

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Resources to aid learning about skin:
 
Human Skin
 
The Whole Story on Skin

Skin Prints

Skin Color

Skin Anatomy @ Enchanted Learning

Skin Problems

Visit Planet Dermis

Let me know if a link doesn't work and I will do my best to fix it.
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Apr. 25, 2007 - Learning About Teeth - Online Resources

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Here are a few links to help you and your little ones learn about teeth:
Healthyteeth.org - Learn about cavities, braces, teeth and gums. Fun games and activities too.
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Apr. 23, 2007 - Skeletal System - Online Resources

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Here are some fun links about the Skeletal system.  A number of them include online games. Most are geared toward children and speak on a level they can understand (also a good level for me )

Please be careful to watch for evolutionary content.

The Big Story on Bones

What would happen if humans didn’t have bones? Are bones alive?  How many bones do I have? To find out click  here

Children's Museum of Indianapolis - Interactive games to help your child learn about bones.

Real Photographs of the Human Skeletal System.
  Also includes a quiz.  Preview first to see if it is OK for your child.

Tour of the Skeletal System - Good for elementary grades.

Build a Skeleton
- Online game.

Human Body Adventure

Animated movie about the Skeletal System
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Apr. 6, 2007 - The Human Eye

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The Human Eye.  What a magnificent creation!  So complex, so useful, so intriguing.

Today we studied the EYE. Wow!  I really learned a lot (and so did my little 5 year old student.)

Here are some links that we found helpful:

A Big Look at the Eye- EXCELLENT!

Do you wear glasses? Here's why

Eye Experiments and Activities

Eye Anatomy and Function- has a good table defining the parts of the eye.

Eye Safety Guide

Healthy Eyes

Observation exercises:

1. Notice how vision impacts balance.
Have child stand on one foot with eyes open. Then repeat with eyes closed. Is it easier to balance with your eyes open or closed? (It is fun to note what they think the outcome will be before they do this.)

2. Experience how each eye sees a little differently.
Hold a pencil in front of an object. Close one eye. Then close the other. It looks as if the pencil moved! Did it? No. Each eye sees from a slightly different angle. Thankfully God designed us perfectly so that when both eyes are open our brain puts these two views together and makes one clear picture.

3. Check out your peripheral vision.
Hold up a pencil in front of you and look straight ahead. Move the pencil all the way to the side and continue looking straight ahead. Notice how far you can move the pencil and still see it without turning your head.

Learning about the eye was really interesting and fun. Feel free to add ideas or links in the comments section.

Eye graphic by:
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Mar. 24, 2007 - Exploring the 5 Senses - Pre-school to 2nd grade

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First of all - Wow! Didn’t God to some amazing work when He created us?! What a wonderful designer He is.

"For You formed my inward parts;
You wove me in my mother's womb.
I will give thanks to You,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works,
And my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the depths of the earth;"

Psalm 139:13-15

It is fun and easy to make learning about the senses very "hands-on". There are many resources available online and at your local library which describe how each sense works. Included below are a few ideas we used in our co-op class and links to the rest.  Anything in bold should be "clickable". 

SIGHT
The ability of our eyes to see.
1.  Explore how important sight is to us by removing it! Children can be blindfolded and then lead around by a sibling or parent.  When being led around how confident were they in their leader ? Was it difficult? How does our sense of sight help us in our everyday lives?
2.  They can also explore their own bedroom without help (but with supervision and instruction to move very slowly so as not to get hurt). Was it easy to find their way around a familiar place without the sense of sight?
3.  Thank God for the sense of sight.

Explain that those without the sense of sight rely on their other senses. Those who are blind or visually impaired need to use their sense of touch to read (braille).

Links to more ideas:
Lesson Plan about the sense of sight for elementary ages
Parts of the Eye
Sense of Sight

SOUND/HEARING
The ability of our ears to hear sounds
1. There are a lot of hearing activities at the below website. I won’t waste time typing any ideas out beacuse they explain them very well:
Hearing Activities
Also see: Lesson plan for sense of hearing
About the Ear

2.  Thank God for the sense of Hearing

TOUCH
The ability of our hands and skin to feel the things around us.
1.  Have a number of similarly shaped objects for the kids to touch. For example: orange, bread roll, peach, apple, tennis ball. Blindfold child and have them touch each object and try to identify it.
2.  Also have them use other parts of their body to touch the object. Can they feel as well? For example, touching an apple with your elbow will feel different than exploring it with your hands.
3.  Thank God for the sense of touch.

Also see:
Lesson plan exploring the sense of touch

SMELL
The ability of our nose to smell.
1. Place different items in brown paper bags and have children smell each and guess the bags contents. Some fun ones we used are: vanilla, peppermint tea, chocolate chips.
2. Explore how smelling and tasting go together.
Pour a small amount of apple juice into a cup and grape juice into another cup. Have child pinch their nose and take a sip of each, drinking water in between to wash their palette. Can they identify each juice? Repeat with nose free. Is the taste stronger and easier to identify?
3.  Thank God for the sense of smell.

Also see:
Sense of Smell
Lesson Plan exploring the sense of smell
About the Nose

TASTE
The ability of our tongue to taste.
1. Label tongue diagram showing how parts of the tongue taste things differently (bitter, salty, sweet, sour).
2. Identify foods that taste in these different ways:
Bitter - Cocoa
Salty - Salt
Sour - Lemon
Sweet - Sugar
3. Look at each others taste buds with a magnifying glass!
4.  Thank God for the sense of taste.

Also see:
About the Tonuge
Lesson Plan exploring the sense of taste

More Online Resources for ALL 5 SENSES:

Fun Lesson plan incorporating the 5 Senses using Popcorn! Also includes good definitions of each sense.

The 5 Senses Working Together

Neuroscience for Kids - - Lots of stuff! A whole section on sensory systems

Experiments For All Five Senses

Neuroscience for Kids - The 5 Senses

Five Senses Activities for Pre-schoolers

Student Designed Website about the 5 Senses


Fun books with hands-on experiments about the human body:

Janice VanCleave's Play and Find Out About the Human Body: Easy Experiments for Young Children

Science and Your Body (Science Activities) by Usborne Books

Other books we have enjoyed:

Usborne's Flip Flap Body Book - Part two is titles How Do Your Senses Work? My daughter loves this book

What's Inside You? (Starting Point Science) - Also by Usborne (Maybe I should become a consultant!)

First Encyclopedia of the Human Body  - Another from Usborne

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