Science+Human+Body

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 * **Unit Overview Template** ||
 * ** Content Area: Science ** ||
 * ** Unit Title: ** Human Body ||
 * ** Target Course/Grade Level: 4 ** ||
 * ** Unit Summary: The students will explore the interaction and interdependency of human systems. ** ||
 * ** Primary interdisciplinary connections: ** ||
 * ** 21st century themes: ** ||
 * ** Unit Rationale ** ||

**Standard 5.3 Life Science:** Life science principles are powerful conceptual tools for making sense of the complexity, diversity, and interconnectedness of life on Earth. Order in natural systems arises in accordance with rules that govern the physical world, and the order of natural systems can be modeled and predicted through the use of mathematics. ** Strand A. Organization and Development:** Living organisms are composed of cellular units (structures) that carry out functions required for life. Cellular units are composed of molecules, which also carry out biological functions. ** Conten ** t **Statements** Essential functions of the human body are carried out by specialized systems: 1. 2.   3. Create digital or physical simulations to explain how human body systems work together to perform functions necessary for life.4. [|Build A Virtual Human Body] ||
 * Learning Targets ||
 * **Standards**
 * Digestive
 * Circulatory
 * Respiratory
 * Nervous
 * Skeletal
 * Muscular
 * Reproductive (covered in Family Life Curriculum) ||
 * ** CPI # ** || ** Cumulative Progress Indicator (CPI) ** ||
 * 5.3.4.A.3 |||||| Describe the interactions of systems involved in carrying out everyday life activities. (Select one.)

What do all living things have in common? || ** Unit Enduring Understandings ** Living organisms have a variety of observable features that enable them to obtain food and reproduce. || // Students will ... // · develop an underdstanding of what the human body systems are and how they are interconnected  || **__ Sample Assessments __** **// To show evidence of meeting this CPI, students may complete the following performance assessment: //** Because you are excellent at (riding a bike, playing a musical instrument, swimming, running, drawing, dancing, playing basketball, writing stories, etc.) you have been asked to create a how-to video for other students your age. This how-to video will be different from others. It will include a step-by-step explanation of all the human body systems involved in the action. Explain in detail to your viewers how the human body allows you to complete the activity. ||
 * ** Unit Essential Questions **
 * ** Unit Learning Targets **
 * Formative Assessments;
 * Probe Respiration
 * [[file:Probe Digestive System.pdf]] ||
 * ** Summative Assessment (X days) **

Teachers’ Domain provides lesson plans and other multimedia resources (video clips and simulations) that support this CPI. [] [|human body resource site] AMAZING HUMAN BODY Book || Click the links below to access additional resources used to design this unit: Human Body Scavenger Hunt [] Human Body Basics [] ||
 * ** Equipment needed: ** Body Activity Copymasters ||
 * ** Teacher Resources: **
 * **Lesson Plans ** ||
 * ** Lesson ** || ** Timeframe ** ||
 * Lesson 1 Name of Lesson 1 ||  X hours/days ||
 * Lesson 2 Name of Lesson 2 || X hours/days ||
 * Lesson 3 Name of Lesson 3 || X hours/days ||
 * ** Teacher Notes: ** ||
 * ** Curriculum Development Resources **