Our class was fascinated to learn that the largest organ in the body is skin! This was just one of the many facts we learned about our integumentary system.
We used this skin label-it worksheet from File Folder Fun to learn about the different structures in skin. This actually is a file-folder game but we used it as a skin diagram. The students cut out the labels and glued them into the right boxes after looking at the main teaching sample.
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| No kids were harmed during this experiment 🙂 |
While the older kids finished up their experiment, we went ahead and took fingerprints. After each student had their fingerprints taken, we looked at them closely. Did they all look the same? Who’s had an arch? a loop? a whorl?
A similar idea is to have a piece of clear tape/packing tape. Have your student press a finger down on the sticky side. What is left on the tape? Skin cells.
Love these ideas…my grandson is a science and math geek so he will love the body coloring book. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome ideas! Coming over to visit from Look What We Did. 🙂
Wow! Lovely ides! Can't wait to start teaching and putting such ideas in practice 🙂