Download Our Human Body - On-site student activities

Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
Our Human Body
On-site student activities
Years 3 – 4
Student activity (and record) sheets have been developed with alternative themes for students to use as
guides and focus material during their visit. There are four sets of materials for Years 3–4, Years 5–6, Years
7–8 and Years 9, 10 and VCE. Each of these sets of materials contains a range of themes with individual
record sheets. The choice of themes will depend on the classroom focus, the curriculum requirements and
individual student needs.
Teachers may choose a single theme or a combination of sheets from different themes for individual student,
or for small groups of students to use. A larger selection of themes may be used by larger groups of
students. The information collected on the student record sheets should be used as reference material for
the follow-up Classroom Activities, or for further research of the subject back at school.
Alternatively, teachers may choose to develop their own student activities or have students develop their
own questions to research during their visit to The Human Body exhibition.
Years 3-4 on-site student activity sheets focus on the following themes:
The Human Body: first impressions
Body parts and body systems
Close-ups: the microscopic world of cells
Our digestive system: ins and outs
Our circulatory system: the heart and blood
Our circulatory system: the lungs for breathing
Our muscles and skeleton: the power within
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
81
Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
The Human Body: first impressions
The Human Body occurs in many different shapes and sizes. Everyone is different. Even
identical twins have some things that are different between them. Look into the large
yellow mirrors at the entrance to The Human Body exhibition. How do you look?
1.
2.
3.
Draw a picture of yourself into the body outline below.
Write your name under it.
Label all of the parts on your picture that make it easy for other people to recognise
you.
We use outside body parts like hair, eye colour and fingerprints to recognise each other.
4.
Do you have any parts of your body that are different to other people in your class?
Write them down or draw them onto the body outline above.
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
82
Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
Look at the large blue wall, next to the yellow mirrors, with all of the pictures and objects
that show us different ways of looking at The Human Body. Look around the corner, in the
yellow space called First impressions that has the skeletons of the giant and the dwarf, the
children’s pictures, the fingerprints and the Egyptian mummy.
5.
Look at the Egyptian mummy in the sarcophagus (coffin). What is his name?
6.
Look at the mummy’s skeleton and look at his reconstructed face in the glass case
nearby. How do we know what the mummy looked like?
7.
What is your favourite picture or model of a human body?
Can you draw it and explain why you like it?
8.
People measure bodies for different reasons.
Write down 2 reasons why we measure our body.
•
•
9.
Have a look at your fingerprints and compare
them to the fingerprints in the exhibition showcase.
Circle the shape below that they look most like.
? Measure yourself
loop
whorl
arch
composite
against the two
skeletons. How tall are
you?
Source: Royal College of
Surgeons, Hunterian Museum.
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
83
Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
Body parts and body systems
1.
As you move around the gallery and explore the different exhibits, look for the
following body parts and draw them inside the body outline below.
2.
As you explore the gallery, write down 3 things that you didn’t know and find
interesting about The Human Body.
•
•
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
84
Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
Our bodies are made up of many different systems. Each system does a special job. Look
at the different ‘Body parts’ showcases in the exhibition and try to find out what each of
these body parts does.
3.
Draw a line from the name of the body part to the task that they help with.
muscles •
• helps us think and store memories
skeleton •
• gets oxygen into our bodies and gets carbon dioxide
out
stomach &
intestines •
• supports our body and protects our insides
heart •
• lets our body move in different ways
lungs •
• pumps blood, oxygen and nutrients around the body
brain •
• breaks our food into tiny pieces and passes them
into the blood
? How many names of
muscles do you know?
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
85
Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
Close-ups: the microscopic world of cells
Every part of our body is made up of millions of tiny building blocks called cells. There are
216 different types of cell in The Human Body.
Explore the ‘Close-ups’ section of the exhibition (look for the red walls).
1.
Choose one cell from the ‘spinning wall’ on the ‘Close-ups’ column, and draw it
below.
2.
Find the picture of the pin tip
with the red blood cells on it. Draw the cells onto the diagram below.
How many cells do you think there are?
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
86
Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
Our digestive system: ins and outs
Food travels through our body in a long tube that reaches from our mouth to our bottom.
Some of our food is broken up into tiny pieces and put into the blood. The rest of it comes
out in the toilet as pooh. Have a look at the ‘Body parts – digestion’ display.
1.
Can you label each of the different parts on the diagram below
(stomach, liver, anus, small intestine, large intestine, mouth).
2.
How long is the digestive tube from the beginning to the end?
3.
The stomach soaks food in a liquid called gastric juice. What is gastric juice made
from?
☐ water
☐
acid
☐
fruit juice
☐ digestive
juices
4.
How long does food stay in our stomach?
5.
What are some of the other organs of the digestive system that help to break down
food?
6.
What does left over – waste matter look like when it leaves the digestive tube and
why does it smell?
7.
How many days does it take for food to pass through the digestive tract, from
beginning to the end?
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
87
Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
Our circulatory system: the heart and blood
Our blood carries nutrients and oxygen to every part of our body. It also picks up waste
from the different body parts and carries it away so that it can be removed from the body.
Explore the ‘Body parts – circulation’ display.
4.
1.
What does the heart do?
2.
Put your hand over your heart. Can
you feel it beating? How many times
does your heart beat in one minute?
3.
What happens to your pulse when
you exercise?
Connect the names of each thing found in the
blood to the description of what each part does.
Plasma •
• attack germs in the body
Red blood cells •
• carry oxygen around the body
White blood cells •
• the watery part of our blood
carries blood cells, dissolved
nutrients and waste
5.
Look at the dissected heart and blood vessels in
the glass showcase. Describe what they look like?
? Why are there so
many blood vessels in
the body?
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
88
Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
Our circulatory system: the lungs for breathing
Our body takes in oxygen through our lungs and puts it into our blood. Waste gases are
moved out of the blood and put into the lungs and breathed out. Have a look at the
breathing organs in the glass showcase in the ‘Body parts – circulation display’.
1.
Find the lungs and trachea in
the glass showcase. Draw them in
the body outline below.
2.
Look at the white cast of the
air spaces inside the lungs.
Draw them below? Describe what
do they look like?
3.
Put one hand on your chest and
one hand on your belly and take a
deep breath in and out. What
happens to your chest when you do
this? What happens to your belly?
4.
Can you find the image of the smoker’s lungs in the
exhibition? What do the lungs look like? How are
they different to the lungs of a non-smoker?
5.
Why do you think our heart and lungs are
surrounded by our bony rib cage?
A smoker’s lungs.
Source: University of Melbourne.
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
89
Our Human Body On-site student activities: Years 3 - 4
Our muscles and skeleton: the power within
All of our movements depend on our muscles and skeleton. We have a bony skeleton with
muscles attached. Our muscles and skeleton allow us to move. They support us and
protect our inside organs. Look at the ‘Body parts - muscles and skeleton’ display.
1.
What is the longest bone that you can see
in the skeleton?
2.
What bones protect the brain?
3.
What bones protect the lungs and heart?
4.
Label 3 other bones onto the skeleton.
? How many names of
bones do you know?
Our bodies are able to move where different bones come together. Look at the man on the
shelf with the moving joints.
5.
List three parts of the body that move in different ways.
6.
Look carefully at one of the human skeletons in
the gallery. In what part of the body do different
bones form a joint that does not move?
No part of our body moves without muscles. Muscles move the food in our stomach, they
make the heart pump and our eyes move. Muscles cause our body parts to move by
shortening, and then relaxing back to normal length.
7.
Draw and label the muscles of the foot onto the skeleton above?
http://museumvictoria.com.au/education/
A Museum Victoria experience.
90