Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

The Skeletal System StudyJam

Subject Area

Science

Grade(s)

4, 7

Overview

Your skeleton gives your body a supporting frame and protects your internal organs. The skeletal system is attached to the muscular system, and they work together, allowing your body to move.

This resource presents a short slide show about the human skeletal system. This resource could serve as background information before students construct a model of organ systems. After utilizing this resource, the students can complete the short test to assess their understanding.

    Science (2015) Grade(s): 4

    SC15.4.10

    Obtain and communicate information explaining that humans have systems that interact with one another for digestion, respiration, circulation, excretion, movement, control, coordination, and protection from disease.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SC15.4.10

    Vocabulary

    • communicate
    • articulate
    • obtain
    • structure
    • function
    • interactions
    • digestion
    • respiration
    • circulation
    • excretion
    • movement
    • control
    • coordination
    • protection
    • disease
    • body systems

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Humans have systems that interact with one another.
    • The purpose, functions, and interactions of the digestive system.
    • The purpose, functions, and interactions of the respiratory system.
    • The purpose, functions, and interactions of the circulatory system.
    • The purpose, functions, and interactions of the excretory system.
    • The purpose, functions, and interactions of the systems that contribute to movement, control, and coordination.
    • The purpose, functions, and interactions of the systems that protect the body from disease.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Obtain information by reading and comprehending grade-appropriate complex texts about the interacting systems in the human body.
    • Evaluate information about interactions and functions of human body systems by comparing and/or combining across complex texts and/or other reliable media.
    • Communicate information orally and/or in written formats about interactions and functions of human body systems.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • The body is a system of interacting parts that makes up a whole and carries out functions its individual parts can not.

    Scientific and Engineering Practices

    Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

    Crosscutting Concepts

    Systems and System Models
    Science (2015) Grade(s): 7

    SC15.7.4

    Construct models and representations of organ systems (e.g., circulatory, digestive, respiratory, muscular, skeletal, nervous) to demonstrate how multiple interacting organs and systems work together to accomplish specific functions.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:SC15.7.4

    Vocabulary

    • Model
    • System
    • Tissues
    • Organ
    • Organ System
    • Biological hierarchy (e.g., cells, tissues, organs, etc.)

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Biological hierarchy (cells, tissues, organs, organ systems, organisms).
    • Specialized cells make up specialized tissues; specialized tissues make up organs (e.g., the heart contains muscle, connective, and epithelial tissues that allow the heart to receive and pump blood).
    • Major organs of the body systems (e.g., circulatory, digestive, respiratory, muscular, skeletal, nervous).
    • Functions of the body systems.
    • Interacting organ systems are involved in performing specific body functions.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Construct a model or representation that demonstrates how interacting organs and systems accomplish functions.
    • Describe the relationships between components of the model.
    • Use observations from the model to provide causal accounts for events and make predictions for events by constructing explanations.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • The body is a system of multiple interacting subsystems (organ systems).
    • Different organs work together to form organ systems that carry out complex functions (e.g., the heart and blood vessels work together as the circulatory system).
    • The interaction of organ systems are needed for survival, growth, and development of an organism.

    Scientific and Engineering Practices

    Developing and Using Models

    Crosscutting Concepts

    Systems and System Models
    Link to Resource

    CR Resource Type

    Interactive/Game

    Resource Provider

    http://studyjams.scholastic.com/
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