Giant Body Kit 1

Linda Swain

2238Paper-based / ePackJun 94
ISBN: Paper-based 978 1 85749 121 0; ePack 978 1 84070 262 0

Engaging materials

A creative and innovative publication which allows classes, groups or individuals to assemble, complete and work with life-size outlines. The kit includes giant outline posters to be pieced together by the pupil and additional material to be added to the assembled outline.

Designed for use with younger Key Stage 3 pupils, this kit provides two prepubescent body outlines, one with a skeleton; and a set of relevant organs and organ systems to be added. It can, for example, be used to teach about:

• characteristics of living things
• breathing and exercise
• main external parts of the body
• bones, muscles and movement
• food and digestion
• the human life cycle
• blood, the heart and circulation
• health and ill health.

Contents

Teacher's Notes

Introduction

Using the kit

• Constructing an outline
• Using an outline on its own
• Using an outline including the skeleton
• Adding components to an outline and using the resulting wallchart
• More complicated activities

Background information

• Principal organs
• The skeleton
• Circulatory system
• Breathing and gas exchange system
• Digestive system
• Nervous system
• Excretory system
• Muscular system
• Reproductive system

National Curriculum references

Appendices

• Body outline plus skeleton
• Body outline
• Body parts and major organs
• Front view of facial features
• Head cross-section (side view)
• Liver
• Pancreas
• Heart
• Female reproductive organs
• Male reproductive organs
• Digestive system
• Urinary system
• Lungs
• Skeleton of hand
• Flexed arm showing muscles