GRADE 5 LIFE  SCIENCE - HUMAN BODY SYSTEMS

Lesson 9 - your skin

MULTIMEDIA CONNECTIONS
Before You Read
Knock, knock.   Who's there?  Your body's largest organ!  Is it the heart?  NO!  Is it my liver?  NO!  Give me a clue... Well, I'm as big as a small rug!   Keep reading and watching to find out who I am and the very important job I do.
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Kids Health Skin & Hair Interactive
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When you are finished reading & answering questions try out this Kids Health Quiz.

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TEXTBOOK CONNECTIONS
Section 6.6 Skin: Your Protective Covering and Section 6.7 How Your Bones, Muscles & Skin Interact with Other Body Systems
Key Questions:  What jobs does your skin have?

Open your BC Science Probe 5 Textbook or your iPad to Chapter 5 Skeletal and Muscular System - page 130 - 133
While You Read
As you read about the body's skin and how it interacts with other systems, complete each question on the worksheet  for Section 6.6 and 6.7 your Science Duotang.  Now read and highlight the information from Lightbulb Minds.  When you are finished play the "Forbidden Game" (directions are in your duotang.)

ipad connections

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What can our apps teach us about the Skin?  Go to Anatomy - I Know My Body - once you've chosen your body go to the menu and pick the section called "My Skin".


After You Read (Home/School Connections) - choose one activity to complete at home.

Activity 1

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Fingerprint Activity
Matching Fingerprints:  Solving Crimes, Improving Security
Click on the fingerprints to investigate how fingerprints are used to solve crimes.  
When you are finished check your own fingerprints and those of other family members.
  1. What type do you have?  
  2. Do you all have the same type?  
  3. Post your discoveries on our class blog.

Activity 2

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Wonderville - Solve the crime
Fingerprint Activity - Wonderville
Click on the picture at left to compare fingerprint patterns again the evidence and apply problem-solving to identify the culprit.
Then check out the possible careers in crime forensics.  Write about solving the case and whether you would like to become a forensic scientist for our class blog.

Activity 3

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2-Point Discrimination
Touch Experiments The skin is the largest sensory organ of the body.  Choose one of the "Touch Experiments" on the Neuroscience for Kids website.  Take pictures or a video of the activity as you complete it.  Post the results to our class blog along with a summary of your findings.

activity 4

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Protect Your Skin
Watch the video and then create your own poster or video telling about the potential dangers from the sun and how to protect yourself.  Bring the poster to school and be ready to explain it to the class or make a video to post on our class blog.

    The skin Project comment

    Max file size: 20MB
CHAPTER 6 QUIZ
Before we move on it's time to study for the quiz on Chapter 6.  Go through your textbook and your notes.  You can choose one of four ways to study.
  1. Complete the Chapter 6 Review found in your textbook on pages 134-135.  Answer the questions in complete sentences and hand in.
  2. Use the Chapter 6 Review found in your Science Duotang and hand in.
  3. Use Inspiration or your own drawing to make a mind map of Chapter 6.  Be sure to include drawings and definitions and hand in.
  4. Use file cards to record all important vocabulary words, their definitions and a drawing and hand in.
The following words are important:  skull, ribs, skin, ligaments, tendons, spinal column, cartilage, voluntary muscles, involuntary muscles, epidermis, dermis.

When your study notes are handed in you can complete the Quiz and move to the last chapter - the Nervous System!