Cells and how bodies work: 6th to 8th science
Cells and body systems. A free 6th to 8th lesson plan with a hook, practice that links to free activities, and an exit ticket. Copy it and make it yours.
Lesson plan
Goal
- Students work toward: cells and body systems.
Hook (5 min)
- Ask the class: How does the air you breathe get to your toes?
- Take two or three answers and write them where everyone can see them.
Teach (15 min)
- Say the big idea in one plain sentence: cells and how bodies work.
- Show one example, then one that is not an example, and ask how the two differ.
- Have students tell a partner or a small group the idea in their own words.
Practise (20 min)
- Choose one for the whole class or let groups pick:
- Learn: Cells, life's building blocks (https://peabody.kids/world/science/science-cells)
- Visit: Explore: A breath of air (https://peabody.kids/body/how/breath)
- Read: How Many Bones in the Body? (https://peabody.kids/library/how-many-bones-are-in-the-human-body)
- Read: Rooms Within Rooms (https://peabody.kids/library/rooms-within-rooms)
Exit ticket (5 min)
- On a slip or aloud: one thing I learned about cells and how bodies work, and one question I still have.
- Sort the slips into: got it, nearly, not yet. Start tomorrow with the last pile.
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