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Bones, Blood and Guts

A machine that man can not duplicate!

Please see the General Science page for more books and links.

Please see our unit on Cooking, Health and Nutrition

Resources--books Resources--websites Projects Writing Assignments

Resources

Books

Non-Fiction--Information books:

General:

bulletAtlas of the Human Body  by F. Netter (Barrons, 2006; ISBN 0764158848)
bulletBiology, The Easy Way by Gabrielle I. Edwards (Barrons, 1990; ISBN 0812042867)*
bulletBlood and Guts by Linda Allison (Little, Brown and Co, 1976; ISBN 0316034436)*
bulletBody by Design by Alan L. Gillen.*  A very Christian based book.  A bit advanced for my elementary aged children, but a wonderful resource to have.
bulletCells, Genes and Chromosomes (Chelsea, 1995; ISBN 0791031543)
bulletFor Your Own Protection; Stories science photos tell by Vicki Cobb (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1989; ISBN 0688087876)
bulletGrowing Up (Gospel Answers about Maturation and Sex) by Brad Wilcox* (The best book on maturation for any child, especially a LDS child!!) review
bulletMagic School Bus, Explores the Senses by Joanna Cole (scholastic)*
bulletMagic School Bus, Inside Ralphie: A Book About Germs by Joanna Cole (Scholastic)* KR
bulletMagic School Bus, Inside the Human Body by Joanna Cole (scholastic)* KR
bulletHMM? the most interesting book you'll ever read about memory by Diane Swanson, illustrated by Rose Cowles, (Kids Can Press, 2001; ISBN 1550745956) KR
bulletHow Cells Work by Patrick A. Baeuerle and Norbert Landa (1997; ISBN 0764150529)
bulletHow the Body Works by Steve Parker (Reader's Digest)*
bulletHuman Body by Steve Parker (DK, 2004; ISBN 075660687X)
bulletHuman Body (TimeLife, 1992; ISBN 0809496542)
bulletHuman Body by Kirsteen Rogers and Corinne Henderson (Usborne Internet linked)*
bulletI Wonder Why I Blink and Other Questions About My Body by Brigid Avison (Kingisher, 1993; ISBN 1856978753)* KR
bulletOn Top of Mount Everest; and other explorations of science in action by Jack myers, Ph.D, illustrated by John Rice (Boyds Mills, 2005; ISBN 1590782526)
bulletThe Human Body (Crabtree Pess, 2003; ISBN 0778705684)
bulletThe Incredible Human Body by Fran Balkwill & Mic Rolph (Sterling)*
bulletThe Secret Family by David Bodanis (Simon & Schuster, 1997; ISBN 0684845938)
bulletThe World's Best Anatomic Charts 2nd Ed, (Anatomical Chart Co., 1995; ISBN 0-9603730-5-5) *
bulletWhat if the Human Body didn't have a Heart or a pair of Lungs or a Skeleton, or even a Brain? by Steve Parker (Cooper Beech, 1995; ISBN 1562949144) KR
bulletWhat is a Bellybutton? (TimeLife)* KR
bulletWhat Makes Me Me? by Robert Winston (DK, 2004; ISBN 0756603250) KR
bulletWhat's Living Inside Your Body? by Andrew Solway (Heinemann, 2004; ISBN 1403448477)
bulletWhat Makes You Cough, Sneeze, Burp, Hiccup, Blink, Yawn, Sweat, and Shiver? by Jean Stangl (Franklin Watts, 2000; ISBN 0531203824) KR
bulletWhy Can't I Live Forever? and other not such dumb questions about life by Vicki Cobb illustrated by Mena Dolobowsky (Lodestar, 1997; ISBN 0525675051)
bulletWhy Don't Haircuts Hurt? by Melvin and Gilda Berger, illustrated by Karen Barnes (Scholastic, 1998; ISBN 059013079X)
bulletZzz... The most interesting book you'll ever read about sleep by Trudee Romanek, illustrated by Rose Cowles (Kids Can Press, 2002; ISBN 1550749447) KR

Please note that the amount of books for each system was overwhelming so they have been placed on their own pages.  Please click on the link below to find the book list.  Websites that are system specific can also be found on those pages.  I did not include every website we visited because the amount was staggering.

The Nervous System The Circulatory System The Digestive System The Muscles The Respiratory System The Human Skeleton The Reproductive System The Endorine System The Urinary System The Lymphatic System

 

Activity Books:

bulletHuman Anatomy Coloring Book by  Joe Ziemian*
bulletThe Body Book:  Easy-To-Make Hands-On Models That Teach, by Donald M. Silver and Patricia J. Wynne (Scholastic, 1993;  Inc. ISBN 0-590-49239-X)*

Audio/visual:

bulletBody Story (Discovery Channel) Broken Bones, Heart Attack, infancy, Metabolism, Puberty, Trauma, Allergies, Germs, The Flu
bulletBill Nye the Science Guy's numerous videos on the human body and other topics relating to human life.

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Websites:

bulletHuman Anatomy Online You can find all the systems on this website.
bulletFrom the Nation Eye Institute an educational program to download
bulletDifferent Systems of the body
bulletA very scholarly web page for the human body.
bulletWonderful web site for the brain, skeleton, heart and digestion systems
bulletThe ADA's education web site.
bullet4 Girls Health from The National Woman's Health Information center, US Department of Health and Human Services.
bulletAsk Eric's web page on the body full of lesson plans for elementary age
bulletAll Systems Go online activity about the body systems
bulletNeuroscience from the University of Washington TONS of wonderful stuff!
bulletBody and Health from kizclub.com
bullet Enchanted Learning search on "Human Body" over 150 pages
bulletThe Virtual Body
bullet The Human Body from Think Quest
bulletWeb Anatomy by the University of Minnesota "A collection of study aids for entry-level anatomy and physiology students."
bullet Human Anatomy a free internet course other Health Care free courses too

Visit our Science Resource web page

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Projects

bulletOur project was to put together the "body" from  The Body Book:  Easy-To-Make Hands-On Models That Teach.

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Writing assignments

bulletNothing was assigned this time through since it was a notebook, project driven unit.

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Completed: November, 2001

 

   

Last update: November, 2006

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