Software Title: Introduction
Grade/Age Level: Third Grade
Subject Area: The Human Body; The Heart
Platform: Both
Purpose: Using software to create a science lesson.
Preparing a lesson for a third grade class, I searched online using "Human Body" and "third-grade". To my surprise I found two websites designed by third-grade students. Wow, this is the perfect teaching tool! This lesson on the heart can be introduced using the three websites. Selecting the first website as the "Introduction", Click on "Human Body"( the chest figure), to "Our Human Body", to below "Control" select "Circulation" and finally to "Heart". If we explored around this site, students become introduced to organs and other peoples need for donor organs. This website has great links to "websites for kids".
Software Title: Body Book
Grade/Age Level: Third Grade
Subject Area: The Human Body; The Heart
Platform: Both
Next travel to another web-site designed by a third grade class called "Body Book" and travel through the section on the heart. There is a cool list of resources listed under activities that takes the teacher to a supplier.
Software Title: Virtual Tour
Grade/Age Level: Third Grade
Subject Area: The Human Body; The Heart
Platform: Both
The final website provides a Virtual Tour of the heart. Start with the Narrated Tour, then talk about the Heart Parts (moving the cursor makes the names of parts appear) and lastly look at the Animated Heart. Ask the students to think about where the blood is flowing in the different parts of the heart. Conclude with the amazing fact that the heart uses four chambers to pump blood simultaneously in four different directions. The heart is amazing!
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I like how you picked your three links on a theme, that was cool! I loved the Body Book, what a great presentation for the kids. Technology really gives teachers a great tool, to be able to apply the students learning in new and exciting ways. I bet the kids making that website had a blast!
These are great resources--easy to understand but with lots of useful information. I like the idea that students made their own anatomy website. This is a wonderful way to get students involved in a topic.
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