How
Did You Do It? Teacher Page Scope and Sequence
4-5 weeks
I.
Focus their attention
Decide upon the activity you would
like students to evaluate (aka "it.")
Select a
model building activity that continues for more than one day.
Guide students to evaluate human
complexity.
Discuss raw materials needed to
create a complex structure.
Guide students to decide if they
moved. (This would
include any of their limbs, their eyes, their
mouths, or their trunk.)
Help them decide if they
breathed. It is
so automatic, they might not be aware of it.
Ask them to determine which senses
they used; make a list of how each sense was involved.
What happened after school?
What did they do? (Eating, sleeping, and eliminating.)
II.
Discuss the meaning of a system
III. Identify the specific body
systems involved in accomplishing the tasks in part I.
Create cooperative groups to become
experts in each system.
The teacher may wish to select a system
to demonstrate the process each group will take.
Create a life size 2D model on bulletin
board paper.
Draw the system in its correct
anatomical location.
Understand the function and role of the
system.
Create a model (or activity) of the
organ or system to show how it works.
Observe the different organs in the
system - assess what enables them to look and perform differently.
Identify their smaller parts (cells).
Decide if the smaller parts are living
or nonliving.
What do these smaller parts need to
survive and do their jobs?
IV.
Putting it all together
Each group should tell how the systems interact with one another.
Create a game similar to "hot potato" or dominoes to show the actions
of one system are dependent on others.
