Bones, Cells & DNA Activities

For science we focus on a different area in Anatomy each week. Although we do not do science every week. Here are some of the activities we did. Along with reading really great books, and sometimes a movie to go along with it. Someday I will type up the full planns if you are interested in it let me know. 

The first week we just did an overview of the body systems one of the things we did was we made these cute accordion booklets the boys LOVED them! They carried them around in their pockets and would pretend to do "surgery" on each other in the different systems, pulling it out of their pockets to see what system they would work on, taking out certain parts. Kind of gross I have to admit but they were having fun and learning the systems. 

 The next week we learned all about cells. The activity we did along with that was making a pizza cell the boys LOVED this! They designed their own pizza finding something to represent each part of the cell, we used a diagram to fallow in one of our books. They ate them right up!

 Boys making a silly face with their finished pizzas.

 The week after Cells we learned about DNA (see pictures bellow for activity- sorry not the right order)

 After DNA we learned about the Skeleton, and did lots of games and activities. They LOVED making Mr. Bones. I got this pattern from a book we are using and had it copied on really thick card stock and used brads to hold it together, he is  now part of our family and hangs on the walls. I make little label cards from card sock and they match the name to the right bones. We also did games where I would call out the bone and they would point to it.

 We also did this work sheet where we fill in and color the bones. The younger boys did a skeleton do to dot I found on Pinterest.

 This is one of the books we read, it is a super fun Skeleton book we read teaching fun facts about the bones.

 DNA! We studies this, and for the activity we build DNA! we did two smaller ones then hooked them together to make a big one. We found some examples on Pinterest to fallow.

After Skeleton we learned about the Muscle system.
For our activities, we did a fun Word search and coloring page and watched a Magic School bus one day and a Bill Nye about bones and Muscles.