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Know Your Body 5 Binder Set
Product Type: Curriculum
Author: Ellen McPeek Glisan
Components: 5 Science Packets with Experiments, Reproducible
Worksheets, Tests, and Answer Keys for the 5 systems of the human
body
Reproducible: Yes
Reading Level: 5.0+
Age Appropriate: Secondary, Adult
Copyright: 1997
The Know Your Body high-interest curriculum provides hours of
fascinating study of the human body and five of its systems:
Skeletal, Muscular, Nervous, Reproductive, and Digestive. The large
spiral-bound books include the objectives of the program, numerous
teaching suggestions, easy-to-do experiments, tests, and answer
keys; plus additional activities to expand on the program. Each also
includes several Work Packets which range from 40 to 95 reproducible
activities. Clear illustrations, simple diagrams, and well-organized
text make this a popular program for either individual or classroom
study.
The Skeletal System
Four work packets consist of text and assignments. Packets 1-3 are
followed by a review assignment and a test. Packet 4 is followed by
two reviews and a test. The reviews and tests include information
from all packets preceding them.
Sections
1. What Is Your Skeleton All About?
2. How Bones Grow
3. Taking Care of Your Skeleton
4. Know Your Skeleton
The Muscular System
Four work packets consist of text and assignments. Packets 1-3 are
followed by a review assignment and a test. Packet 4 is followed by
two reviews and a test. The reviews and tests include information
from all packets preceding them.
Sections
1. What Are Your Muscles?
2. Your Muscles at Work
3. Taking Care of Your Muscles
4. Know Your Muscles
The Nervous System
Three work packets consist of text and assignments. Each work packet
is followed by a review assignment and a test. The reviews and tests
include information from all packets preceding them.
Sections
1. What Are Your Nerves?
2. Your Nerves at Work
3. Taking Care of Your Nerves
The Reproductive System
Five work packets consist of text and assignments. Packets 1-3 are
followed by a review assignment and a test. Packets 4-5 are followed
by two reviews and a test. The reviews and tests include information
from all packets preceding them.
Sections
1. The Female
2. The Male
3. Puberty: Things Are Changing
4. Sex and Love
5. Pregnancy and Childbirth
The Digestive System
Four work packets consist of text and assignments, an experiment,
four reviews, and four tests. Each work packet is followed by a
review assignment and test. The reviews and tests include
information from all packets preceding them.
Sections
1. Follow that Hot Dog!
2. Taking Out the Trash
3. Fuel for the Body
4. A Wrench in the Works!
Special Features
The diverse and creative "Additional Activities" presented at the
beginning of each book encourage maximum student involvement in the
materials and exercises presented. Students have a chance to see the
human body in "action" through simple yet interesting exercises.
About the Author
Ellen McPeek Glisan has an M.S. in learning disabilities and started
teaching in a cross-categorical classroom in a small rural Northern
Illinois junior-senior high school. Writing complete programs that
had a clear purpose in the lives of her students became her passion.
She has created an entire line of School-to-Work materials for both
regular and special education classrooms for children and adults.
Related Products
• Know Your Body: Digestive, PC-PEK114
• Know Your Body: Muscular, PC-PEK111
• Know Your Body: Nervous, PC-PEK112
• Know Your Body: Reproductive, PC-PEK113
• Know Your Body: Skeletal, PC-PEK110
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