Human Body Week 5: Brain & Nervous System

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Go Back: Week 4: Muscular System

Read: 

Human Body Encyclopedia pg. 6-7 ("Your brain and nerves")
My Body pg. 7 "My Brain"

Additional Reading:

   

 

Watch:

Schoolhouse Rock: The Nervous System

How the brain works video

Vocabulary/ Copywork:

Your brain controls everything that happens inside you.

The spinal cord links the brain to the rest of the body.

Activity 1:

Brain Hemisphere Hat

Activity 2: 

Spinal Cord Model

Vocabulary/ Copywork:

Your brain and nerves are made of millions of nerve cells called neurons that send signals when you think.

Activity 3:

Edible neuron model

Activity 4:

My Body pg. 8: Color & cut out the brain and glue onto your life-sized wall model body.




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