1st and 2nd Grade Science Unit: The Human Body
Teaching 1st and 2nd grade science lessons in an effective, engaging way can be a challenge, right?
Curriculum that comes from big publishers or from teacher websites often contain too much or not enough. Meanwhile, you just want a user-friendly, easily digestable (pun intended 🙂 ) science curriculum that is effortless for you to plan and engaging and memorable for your students.
If you are looking for a unit to teach your students about The Human Body, using materials that checks all these boxes, this post is for you!
This 1st and 2nd grade Little Science Thinkers HUMAN BODY UNIT introduces your students to the systems that make our bodies work. It includes many kid-friendly, engaging activities and investigations for your class. The unit features lessons on the following topics:
- How our senses work together
- Skeletal System, including bones and joints
- Muscular System, including what muscles do
- Circulatory System, including our heart, blood, and pulse
- Digestive System, including our stomach and intestines and how our bodies get nutrients from food
- Respiratory System, including our lungs and how you breathe
- Nervous System, including our brain, spinal cord, and nerves and how the brain makes all our body systems work
What's Included?
—COMPONENTS OF THE UNIT:
-A complete Teacher Guide
–7 printable/projectable Books for Read Alouds
–10 Step-by-step, Scripted Lesson Plans
–10 Lesson PowerPoints
-Essential Question and Learning Target Posters
-Anchor Charts
-Investigations and Activities
-6 Science Stations
-Whole group Activities
-Vocabulary Cards
-Student Workbook
-Daily Quick Checks
-Primary-appropriate Assessment and Rubric for scoring
-Parent Letter
Let's take a closer look!
Print and use complete lesson plans make teaching easy.
I know that your time is valuable and you need to make the most of every minute, so each lesson is jam packed with content and engagement.
The lessons are quick-paced, written in teacher language, and primary-friendly. You could give these plans to a sub or student teacher, and there would be no question as to what they need to do! It’s all there for you.
SEVEN nonfiction read-aloud books are included that are incorporated into the lessons. The books come in both a printable and projectable format.
You’ll get Teaching PowerPoints to guide each and every lesson.
The PowerPoints can be used to project the learning targets, books, activities, and investigations. They guide your teaching and can be easily saved as Google Slides for digital learning.
Anchor chart models that you create with your students are included for each lesson!
Vocabulary Cards that align with each lesson will extend your students’ scientific vocabulary.
Essential Question and Learning Target posters keep everyone focused, and come in both a printable and projectable format.
6 Hands-On Science Stations to extend your students’ learning and understanding of the key topics of the unit.
Hands-on and memorable activities will have your students retaining information long after the unit is complete!
Daily independent work and quick checks allow the teacher to quickly assess student understanding of the lesson.
There is a full unit review day, along with a kid-friendly unit assessment.
This unit uses Systematic and Explicit instruction utilizing best practices in primary instruction.
Lessons follow this format: Guiding Question and Learning Target exposure, Mini-Lesson with Explicit Instruction, Guiding Question Reflection, Guided Activity/Investigation, Independent Practice then Quick Assessment. Lessons take about 25-30 minutes each.
Are you ready to transform your science lessons?
OUTLINE OF THE HUMAN BODY UNIT:
Lesson 1: OUR SENSES
Lesson 2: THE SKELETAL SYSTEM
Lesson 3: THE MUSCULAR SYSTEM
Lesson 4: THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
Lesson 5: THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
Lesson 6: THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Lesson 7: THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Lesson 8: HANDS-ON SCIENCE STATIONS
Lesson 9: REVIEW
Lesson 10: ASSESSMENT