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Course, Subject

Biology/Living Environment, Math, Science & Technology, Science (NYS P-12)

Content Provider

MEDtropolis
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Teacher Instructions

Teacher can have students work alone or in pairs. Depending on what unit you are working in, have the students use this website as a review. They have the opportunity to review the parts of each system, see the system in action by a narrated tour or animation, and a chance to play a game in which they have to put the system together.

This website can also be used as an introduction to the main parts of this system. This site can help students become familiar with the systems and the vocabulary that go along with each system. Students can be given a blank worksheet of a heart, digestive system, etc. and be expected to fill in the appropriate parts as they go through this website. Or the students can be asked to draw and label the parts of the system if no worksheet is available. This will hold the students accountable for their work. Worksheets have been generated that follow along with each of the activities in the website. Teacher answer keys for the worksheet are also provided.

**The Skeletal System virtual tour is more of an interactive activity. It allows you to put together a human body, there are no worksheets provided since the students will not be able to answer questions off this link.**

Description

This webpage gives the students a chance to learn and be able to locate the parts of the heart, brain, digestive system, and skeletal system. The students get a chance to explore these four regions while getting visualization on how each system is arranged and/or operates. This may be a good review or an introduction to the lesson for each one of these body systems.

Website(s)

Virtual Body

Duration

15 - 45 minutes depending on activity

Student Worksheets

These worksheets can be used for this website. There is a separate worksheet for each of the systems. They can be used as introductory or as a review.

Brain/Nervous System Introduction Worksheet

Digestive System Introduction Worksheet

Heart/Circulatory Introduction Worksheet

Teacher Answer Keys

Answers to the student handouts

Heart Answer Sheet

Brain/Nervous System Answer Sheet

Digestive System Answer Sheet

Spanish Version

This website also has a version of the body system interactives in Spanish.
Spanish Version

Related Academic Standards

New York State

S.HS.LS.1.2 Students who demonstrate understanding can develop and use a model to illustrate the hierarchical organization of interacting systems that provide specific functions within multicellular organisms.

S.HS.LS.1.3 Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that feedback mechanisms maintain homeostasis.

MST4.C.LE.LE.1.2 Students describe and explain the structures and functions of the human body at different organizational levels (e.g., systems, tissues, cells, organelles).

MST4.C.LE1B.BIO.02 Understand that humans are complex organisms that require multiple systems for digestion, respiration, reproduction, circulation, excretion, movement, coordination, and immunity which interact to perform life functions

MST4.C.LE1B.BIO.07 Distinguish different kinds and groups of cells and how they function together along with organs and systems to help the body provide all the cells with basic needs