Body Systems Lesson

1. Activity: The Organ Trail

1.1. Create a wanted poster of an organ

2. Activity: Fetal Pig Dissection

2.1. Students will dissect a fetal pig and discover the different organs hands-on

3. Lecture/Diagram Body Systems

4. Students will know:

4.1. The 6 Body Systems

4.1.1. Respiratory

4.1.1.1. Lungs

4.1.1.2. Larynx

4.1.1.3. Diaphragm

4.1.2. Circulatory

4.1.2.1. Heart

4.1.2.2. Blood Vessels

4.1.3. Digestive

4.1.3.1. Esophagus

4.1.3.2. Small Intestine

4.1.3.3. Stomach

4.1.3.4. Colon

4.1.4. Excretory

4.1.4.1. Kidneys

4.1.4.2. Liver

4.1.5. Nervous

4.1.5.1. Brain

4.1.6. Endocrine

4.1.6.1. Pituitary

4.1.6.2. Thyroid

4.1.6.3. Ovaries

4.1.6.4. Testes

4.2. Organs in each body system

4.3. Function of those organs

4.3.1. *Students will do this research on their own in their activity

5. Main Objective

5.1. Develop an argument supported by evidence for how multicellular organisms are organized by varying levels of complexity; cells, tissue, organs, organ systems.