Help 3rd-grade students learn more about the body through science projects.
It's important to teach 3rd-grade students about the human body. Education is key to helping children develop healthy habits that will keep their bodies strong and healthy as they grow. Engage students in science projects on the body to help them understand more about their bodies and how they work.
The Five Senses
Have third-grade students learn more about their five senses through science projects. Set up five tables in the classroom that will be stations representing the five senses: sight, taste, touch, smell and hearing. At each station, put various items that will help the students learn more about that sense. Put pictures of landscapes at the sight station; soft fabric, a smooth rock and a prickly hairbrush at the touch station. Provide flowers for students to smell, food items such as pickles and sugar cubes for kids to taste, and musical instruments for kids to hear. Have the students visit each station and record their observations in a science journal.
Nutrition
Teach third-grade children about nutrition through a science project. Show students a variety of foods that are commonly found at supermarkets, such as cereal, candy bars, frozen pizza and yogurt. Help children read the ingredients and the nutritional information on each label. Have children identify the food that has the most sugar, the highest amount of sodium and is the most natural.
The Skeleton
Help students learn more about the human skeleton through human body-themed science projects. Provide card stock, glue and a variety of dried pasta and rice for students. Have the 3rd-graders make a skeleton out of the pasta pieces and glue them to the card stock. Use twisted pasta for the spine and shell or tube pasta for a skull. Use elbow macaroni for ribs. Use spaghetti pasta or dry rice for fingers and toes. Have children label the bones of the skeleton.
Other Science Projects on the Body for the 3rd Grade
Have children trace their hands or feet onto paper. Then have them draw a picture of the bones in their hands and feet and label them. Other 3rd-grade body projects include making the likeness of various organs, such as the heart or the brain, out of modeling clay. A student can also make a poster with a diagram of the body's muscles.
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