Your Amazing Anatomy!- Free Lesson

You've lived in it your whole life, but you may not know how amazing your body really is! Have a helper trace your body outline on a piece of larger construction paper, then start identifying and labeling the parts of your body inside and out. 

Students will learn about, identify, draw and label parts of the human body, anatomy & physiology.

Large construction paper enough for each student's body to be traced

The Human Body by Discoverology (or any relevant anatomy reference book or website)

https://www.amazon.com/Human-Body-Interactive-Workings-Discoverology/dp/B005Q5UJVY

Markers and/or other drawing/coloring materials

1. Have a helper trace each student's body outline on construction paper.
2. Read about and focus on the anatomy/physiology you and your students are interested in or specific systems you are currently learning about. (Ex: organs, circulatory, muscular, etc) for labeling and identifying.
3. Use reference resources to learn about, identify, draw & label relevant anatomy on their body tracings. You can start with one each day or do a few at a time depending on the age of your students and the time you have each day. Continue to add to it each time you learn about new parts of the body.
4. Watch included YouTube video link as an introduction or follow up to learning more about the human anatomy.

Start by sharing a few fun facts about the human body:

• A sneeze shoots out of your nosse at 100mph. That's faster than a cheetah can run!
• You make up to 1.5 liters of spit every day. That's enough to fill a big soda bottle!
• The strongest muschle in your whole body is your jaw muscle. 
• When you blush, the inside of your stomach blushes, too.
• Why do you burp? When you eat and drink, you swallow little bits of air too, and that air doesn't want to stay in your stomach. When enough air builds up.... urrrp!

Ask each student to share what they've drawn and labeled and one fact they learned about it.

Alternatively, you could use one body tracing (the teacher or a volunteer) as the example for the whole class then read, draw, and label relevant anatomy together as a whole group instead of individuals. It's a great bulletin board idea, too!