Students explore the major body systems — from the food-processing digestive system to the message-sending nervous system — and see how they work together every second.
Students will be able to…
Right now, without you thinking about it, your body is digesting, pumping, breathing, and sending messages. Who’s in charge of all that?
Project this and tap through each system. Have students record each system’s main job and one organ that belongs to it.
Tap any phase to open the teacher moves and student actions.
You take a bite of an apple. Where does it go?
Students tour six systems and their jobs.
Zoom in on how food becomes energy.
Run in place — which systems just kicked in?
Three quick checks on systems and digestion.
Aligned to Next Generation Science Standards and Common Core literacy. State-standard crosswalks available on request.
Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
Use a model to describe that animals receive information through their senses, process it, and respond in different ways.
Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively and explain how it contributes to understanding.
Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas clearly.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Use a plastic bottle, straws, and balloons to model how the lungs and diaphragm move air in and out. A printable build guide is in the Science library.
Tap a card to flip it, then rate whether you knew it. Built from this lesson’s vocabulary.
A quick self-check with instant feedback, drawn from this lesson’s key terms.
A print-and-go review sheet with a built-in answer key. Tap “Show answer key” to reveal answers, or print the clean version for students.