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	Natural Science
	The Human Body

From this page your students will be led to different tasks to learn about the human body, its parts and systems and how it works. We have mostly based the activity on the BBC website, which offers a great variety of other possibilities that we recommend to improve what we offer.

The activity has been divided into five pages in which your students will be taught about different items. This is what they will see when they start the page (click on the links in order to browse the tasks):

Here is a summary of what you can find on each page:

BASIC BODY PARTS offers a very simple activity about basic vocabulary we must make sure our students know before we start teaching them more complicated things. They are given a picture that they must study and try to memorise the different parts of the human body. Then there are two exercises they have to answer with the names for some definitions. There is an interactive crossword that may help them.

THE SKELETON, first of all, offers a simple definition of skeleton and bones. Then they are asked to fill in a chart about some bones with some data they must get from the BBC website. They then choose one or two bones and find further information about them that they must explain to the rest of the class. After that, there is a skeleton diagram they can use to identify a few bones. Finally, they can relax and play an interactive game offered by the BBC that asks them to assemble a human skeleton (male or female).

THE ORGANS AND SYSTEMS page starts with an exercise in which students are asked to match the systems with their functions. There are different links to the Wikipedia website, where they can find the information they need for each system. Then there's another exercise on some organs: students must relate them to the system they belong to and explain their function. They are given links to two interactive games (click here and here in order to see them) that can help them find the answers. Finally there is an interactive crossword for them to check how much they remember about what they have learnt on this page.

THE MUSCLES offers a few exercises to teach students the muscular system. Again the BBC website will be the source of information from which they will get all they need to answer the questions. First of all, students have to fill in a chart with data about several muscles (where they are located in the human body, their function and how they work). Then they can play an interactive game that will give them more information in order to complete two more charts about male and female muscles.

The material for the classes can be printed here:

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