Kindergarten HUMANS

ACTIVITY 1
Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Standards: 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things (e.g., birds have feathers; people have bones, blood, hair, skin) and their major functions.

After discussing different human body parts and their uses, have students break into pairs. Each student should then take turns drawing each other's body parts individually. Make sure to give the kids a list of parts they MUST include: head, arm, leg, hand, foot, etc.

Materials: Paper, pencils


ACTIVITY 2
What's INSIDE?

Standards: 12.A.1a Identify and describe the component parts of living things (e.g., birds have feathers; people have bones, blood, hair, skin) and their major functions.

After a discussion of internal organs (heart, brain, lungs, stomach) have students break into pairs. Have one of the students lay down on a life-size piece of kraft or butcher paper that has been torn off of a roll. Have the other student trace the outline of laying student's body. Give each set of children worksheets with drawings of the internal organs on them. Have each group cut out these organs and paste them where they would belong on the tracing.

Materials: Roll of kraft or butcher paper, pencils, crayons, scissors, glue