Thursday, November 6, 2008

Travel Brochure of the Body Systems

Travel brochure of the human body systems sounds like a fun trip! I would have to say this is really great activity. It gives the students a sense of adventure and promotes creativity. I, personally, would like to have done this in my anatomy class in high school. The lesson plan lets student chose the way they want to present it but also giving them required information to include. Providing the required information to include will help students realize what is important and what to pay attention to. The self and peer assessment is a good idea letting students reflect on their amount of effort. It gives a feel of how well students work amongst one another. Overall, this lesson is very creativity and lets student choose what to do to represent organ systems.

Standards for this lesson correlate to human physiology or life sciences. The first standard that this lesson satisfies is: 9-12.L.1.1. Students are able to relate cellular functions and
processes to specialized structures within cells. Students will be require to include functions of various specialized cells in each system. The second South Dakota Standard is: 9-12.L.1.3. Students are able to identify structures and function relationships within major taxa. 9-12.L.1.3 is satisfied by having student finding information of the the structures and functions of different organs in each system. These are the only two life science standards that I found to complete with this lesson.

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