Human Anatomy 6 8

Human Anatomy
15- 35 minutes School / Home
Essential Questions
● How do body systems support life and growth?
● How do our body’s systems change over time?
This lesson and additional resources can be found at www.MergeEDU.com/activities
Activity
1. Your body is a complex and intricate set of systems. These systems work together to handle your daily
activities and sustain life. Have you ever thought about how your skeletal system helps you accomplish
your goals for each day? You use your bones, in conjunction with your muscles and other tissues, to move
around, get food, play, and sleep. What would life be like without such a vital system? Is one system more
important than another? How do these systems interact with one another?
2. Open the “Human Anatomy” topic card inside the Merge Explorer app. Look at the image at the very top
and read the Introduction, or press the “Audio” button so the app reads it out loud.
3. Look at the image at the very top of this topic card. What do you see? The image shows a heart, an organ
that pumps blood throughout the body. What function do your bones play in your body? How do your ribs
exemplify that purpose? Read or listen to the description. Learn about how each subsystem in your body
is composed of cells that work together. Think about one of your body systems, like your skeletal system.
What do the cells in your bones do? If your bone cells all work together, what is their common purpose?
How is this different from the cells in your nervous system?
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4. Move on to Activity One, called “Hand-Held Anatomy”. You will need your Merge Cube for this activity. Read
or listen to the description. Press the “Play” button to start the activity, where you will interact with a miniature
human anatomy model. As you click on each system, think about how each system is alike and different
from other systems. Ask yourself, what is the purpose of each system? What would life be like without one
of these systems? Take a closer look at the digestive system. What organs, tissues, and structures make up
the digestive system? Now, look at the nervous system. What organs, tissues, and structures make up the
nervous system? What would happen to these two systems if one component was removed?
5. Now move on to Activity Two, called “Life-Sized Human Anatomy”. You will not need your Merge Cube
for this activity. You will need to have a device capable of “Place in World” to do this activity. Read or
listen to the description. Press the “Play” button to start the activity. You will be able to place a life-size
human model in the world around you. Wherever you are, find a nice open space to place your model.
Observe the systems up close. What do you see? How does the structure of each system change as you
move the slider to change the age of the model from 5 years old to 25? How does the skeletal system of
a young child differ from an adult? Would this be more or less obvious when comparing a 5 month old
person with a 90 year old person? How does this change compare to changes you see in the digestive
system of a child and adult?
6. When you have finished both activities, complete one of the Assessment options below.
Assessment
Video Recording: Record a video blog (vlog) entry pretending that you are in charge of a body
system. Describe how your specific body system helps a human live and perform their needed
functions, such as eating, playing, or growing.
Class Notebook: Answer the Essential Questions in your class notebook.
Quiz: Take the “6th - 8th Grade” quiz inside this topic card. Keep trying, until you answer all the
questions correctly!
Extension Ideas
● Create a 3D sculpture of one of the human body systems you learned about using any at-home or
classroom materials you can use. Label the organs or other structures that make up the system. If you
can, describe how each part of the system operates.
● Research the body systems of another animal, such as a crab or lizard. Write about the similarities and
differences between their body systems and human body systems.
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Performance Expectations:
● MS-LS1-3: Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting
subsystems composed of groups of cells.
● MS-LS1-7: Develop a model to describe how food is rearranged through chemical reactions forming
new molecules that support growth and/or release energy as this matter moves through an organism.
● MS-LS1-8: Gather and synthesize information that sensory receptors respond to stimuli by sending
messages to the brain for immediate behavior or storage as memories.

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Human Anatomy

15- 35 minutes School / Home

● How do our body’s systems change over time?

This lesson and additional resources can be found at www.MergeEDU.com/activities

Class Notebook: Answer the Essential Questions in your class notebook.

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