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Students will explore the Essential Question, How does knowing and understanding our bodies help us? The fascinating inner workings of the human body is something we all have in common. Through this project students will gain a basic understanding of the human body and how it works. Students will write and illustrate a book about the human body and explain each organ and its purpose.
Students will be creating child-friendly textbooks that describe different organs in the body and how they work. Students will write informational text and illustrate an accurate model of their organ as well as design the page layouts of their textbook.
In kicking off the project we invited our students to play the game Operation. They had so much fun and then we were able to share with them that this was a silly and fun game that is not based on how the body really works and that we were going to become experts on the true workings of the inner body. They were curious and invested in this learning. Students loved getting to meet a nurse and a radiologist and interact with real tools from their workplace. Students were also excited about their book being published on amazon.