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DESCRIPTION Create this fun and informative accordion book to teach about the Respiratory System and its connection to the Circulatory System! There are 8 pictures of the respiratory process to color. Each picture of the process has an informative blurb providing the students with a great deal of knowledge. Did you know it takes about 20,000 breaths a day to continually provide our bodies with enough oxygen to survive? Kids will learn about how the diaphragm helps us inhale and exhale, how alveo

DESCRIPTION Here is a colorful and informative graphic organizer for the 4 layers of a rainforest. For each of the four layers (Forest Floor, Understory, Canopy, and Emergent Layer) there is a vegetation section telling what grows in the layer, an animal section telling what inhabits in the layer, and a general description of the layer. Create this flipbook all in one day, or complete it over a span of days or weeks. For my unit with my own kids, we did a week on rainforest animals, a week on ra

DESCRIPTION Here is a great pair of activities to help learn about the human digestive system! The first activity is a simple, yet informative, coloring page, which has the students use one color for each part of the digestive tract. Students will become familiar with and color the mouth, esophagus, gallbladder, stomach, liver, pancreas, small intestine and large intestine. The second resource is a cut-and-paste activity with 6 of the main organs of the human digestive system. Both of these acti

DESCRIPTION Here is a great pair of activities to help learn about five parts of a flower (petal, stamen, pistil, sepal, and stalk). The first activity is a simple, yet informative, coloring page, which has the students use one color for each flower part. The second activity is a flower dissection sheet. My own kids LOVED the flower dissection and are still able to look at a flower and recite its parts! DIRECTIONS 1.“Color the Parts of a Flower” Activity: You will need the following colors: yell

Here is a great bundle which covers 6 of the main systems in the human body (Digestive, Circulatory, Respiratory, Muscular, Skeletal, and Nervous Systems). Each book is easy-to-create and highly informational. This bundle is perfect for any Human Body Unit! Here is what is included: Digestion Accordion Book: Learn all about how you digest your food. Includes some information on the urinary system as well!Lung Accordion Book: Learn all about the connection between your respiratory and circulatory

DESCRIPTION Here is a great set of fun and informative activities to teach the parts of plant and animal cells in a hands-on way! Both the plant and animal cells have coloring pages and cut-and-paste activities. Each coloring page has 10 organelles to color. The plant cell coloring page has students color the chloroplasts, endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, central vacuole, cell membrane, nucleus, nucleolus, cytoplasm, golgi body, and cell wall. The animal cell coloring page has students color

Here is a wonderful bundle to create a memorable and educational unit about the Arctic and Antarctic Regions! Each resource is hands-on and includes informational blurbs. Many of the activities are easily differentiated and can be used with elementary to middle or even high school-aged kids! WHAT'S INCLUDED: "Antarctic Food Chain": A fun flipbook to learn about ecosystem interconnections in Antarctica."Arctic vs. Antarctic": A graphic organizer to learn about the weather, seasons, geography, lan

DESCRIPTION Here is a great group of coloring sheets to learn about the anatomy of bugs! In this simple coloring activity, kids will easily see the differences between the body parts of insects and spiders. Kids will notice that insects have 6 legs, a head, thorax, abdomen, and antennae, while spiders have 8 legs, a head, cephalothorax, pedipalps (feelers) and chelicerae (where the fangs are located). Additionally, kids will be able to compare different insects to see the similarities and diffe

Here is a bundle perfect for any Human Body Unit. It includes 13 fun, hands-on, and informational activities to teach about the anatomy & function of your organs, systems, and cells! This bundle would be best suited for 3rd grade through high school. Each of the activities can easily be differentiated to work with a variety of ability levels. WHAT'S INCLUDED: Lung Accordion Book: Learn all about the connection between your respiratory and circulatory systems.Arteries & Veins Game: Create a

DESCRIPTION Create an adorable accordion book to teach kids the life cycle of a Monarch butterfly! This activity gives young students practice in coloring, cutting, pasting, and placing pictures in the correct order. Each part of the life cycle has an informative blurb so that this book is not only cute, but educational! My kindergarten and Pre-K girls LOVED this craft! MATERIALS NEEDED: Light green cardstock paper (optional), scissors, colored pencils or markers, glue stick, Elmer’s glue, glit

DESCRIPTION Here is an easy-to-create and informational book to teach students all about their muscular system and why it is so amazing! Did you know that your muscles make up about one-third of your body weight? Did you know that the smallest muscle is the stapedius muscle, which is located inside your ear? In making this hands-on activity, students will learn about different types of muscles, different functions of muscles, names of muscles, and more! Each page is only half of an 8.5x11 sheet

DESCRIPTION Here is a fun activity to teach bird migration! Each bird has an easy-to-make slider that your students can use to “fly” the bird along its migratory route. In addition to being interactive, it is also very informative. Did you know that the Arctic Tern migrates the farthest distance of any animal on the planet? Did you know that despite its small size, a hummingbird can fly 500 miles over the ocean without stopping? This is the perfect resource for any Bird or Winter Hibernation/Mig

DESCRIPTION Here is an easy-to-create and informational book to teach students all about their skeletal system. Did you know that not all joints are flexible? Did you know that adults have 206 bones, but babies are born with closer to 300 bones? In making this hands-on activity, students will learn about different types of bones, different functions of bones, names of bones, and more! Each page is only half of an 8.5x11 sheet of paper, so you will minimize the amount of printing needed. The book

DESCRIPTION Learn about the control center of your nervous system and body! Create this colorful, hands-on flipbook to teach about 6 parts of the brain. Teach the anatomical names (Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe, Occipital Lobe, Temporal Lobe, Cerebellum, and Brain Stem) and the function of each. Did you know that the Cerebellum controls balance and coordination? Did you know that the brain stem controls heartrate, breathing, digestion, swallowing, and body temperature? This activity is easy to cre

DESCRIPTION Create this fun and informative accordion book to teach about the Digestive System and its connection to the Urinary System! This is a great hands-on activity for students to learn where their food goes after they eat it. There are 8 pictures of the digestive process to color. Each picture of the process has an informative blurb providing students with a great deal of knowledge. Did you know that your food will pass through 23ft (7m) of tubing before it is eliminated from your body?

DESCRIPTION Here is an easy-to-create and informational book to teach students all about how their nervous system works. Did you know that a single nerve cell is called a neuron? Did you know that a synapse measures approximately one-millionth of an inch wide? In addition to neurons and synapses, students will learn about the brain, spinal cord, the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), neurotransmitters, and the connection between the brain and their muscles in this

DESCRIPTION Here is an interactive and hands-on way to learn about the 8 planets revolving around our sun. It is a great way to learn the names and order of the planets in our solar system (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune). It is also super easy to plan for and make. Simply color the planets, cut out the spinner, and assemble with a brass fastener. You also have 2 different spinner covers to choose from (one with stars and one without). This activity is a perfec

DESCRIPTION Here is a great resource to get students to explore all 5 of their senses in a hands-on way! There are 2-3 activities for each sense (sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste). Use some or all of the activities, and have fun getting kids to investigate the amazing sensory receptors of the human body. This could easily cover a full week if you did one sense per day! For hearing, there is both a “Guess the Sound” open ended activity and matching activity, as well as a “Color the Parts o

DESCRIPTION Here is an informative and fun graphic organizer to teach about the Muscular and Skeletal Systems and how these systems are connected to one another. Did you know that more than 600 muscles are attached to the human skeleton? Or that babies are born with approximately 270 bones while adults only have 206? To complete this hands-on activity, students will color a page about the muscular system and a page about the skeletal system, and then fill in the muscle and bone fun facts. To ass

DESCRIPTION Here is a fact-filled and fun graphic organizer/flipbook to learn the major differences between reptiles and amphibians. Easily compare the skin, eggs, respiration, and babies of reptiles and amphibians with side by side facts and pictures. It is easy to make and a great tool to use for studying about these animals. My own kids loved this hands-on activity and your student’s are sure to love it too! MATERIALS NEEDED: Scissors, stapler, crayons/markers/colored pencils, glue (optional)