Human Body - Day 1

The reading of Madeline jump started a 3 week study of the human body in our house.  We are using the following resources:

Blood and Guts
Usborne's Understanding Your Muscles and Bones
Usborne's Understanding Your Brain
Usborne's Understanding Your Senses
Easy Make and Learn Projects - Human Body (scholastic)
Evan Moor's Giant Science Resource Book

Also information from the internet, mostly linked from www.squidoo.com/humanbodylapbook

Our first day, we talked about cells.  Out of the Make and Learn projects, there was a cell mobile.  Instead of a mobile, we attached each cell to it's description with short piece of string and glued them into the lapbook.

We also did a worksheet from the same book called Magnified Mysteries.  These are little magnifying glass showing close up parts of the body - eye, inner ear, muscles, lung, etc.

And to finish our introduction, we created a Body Book (from Make and Learn). 

Then we began talking about our skin and hair.  We read from the Blood and Guts book.  There is much information in that book.  We are only touching on each subject.  There are also many experiments in that book.  We are only choosing a few.  When they are older, maybe they would like to go through the book again and go into more detail.  I have also created some of my own books that will be posted on homeschoolshare.

We chose a cool experiment that shows that not every place on our hand feels the same sensations.  We used a grid drawn on our hand and a larger grid from graph paper, a straight pin, a paper clip, hot water, ice cube and a toothpick.

It's very hard to see our graph on paper.  In each box on our hand, we tested to see if we could feel pressure, pain, cold and hot.  On the graph, we used a different symbol to record which sensations we felt.  It was interesting.