Exercise and the Human Body

Celebrate National Fitness Month or enhance your unit on the human body systems with this activity that highlights how exercise helps improve the human body's overall structure. This activity has print and digital options that walk students through the function of ten body systems, how they work together to maintain homeostasis, and how exercise helps to strengthen, keep the body healthy, and protect it from diseases.

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Students will learn:

• The function and job of the following body systems:
  • Circulatory
  • Digestive
  • Endocrine
  • Excretory
  • Immune
  • Integumentary
  • Muscular
  • Nervous
  • Respiratory
  • Skeletal
• How each of the human body systems works together
• How exercise helps to improve the functioning of the body, strengthens it, and protects it from diseases

This human body lesson on exercise includes:

• Sneak Peek into My Classroom: Learn how I use this activity in my own classroom
• Digital Google Slide link of the following activities
• Five printable worksheets on the human body systems explaining how each of them works together and the effect exercise has on the body systems
• Two graphic organizers
  • One to summarize how each body system works with another to maintain homeostasis to keep the body healthy and safe
  • The second organizer will have students explain the effects of exercise on the body system.

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This activity can help you meet the following Next Generation Science Standards ( NGSS ):

• 4-LS1-1: Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.
• MS-LS1-3 From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes: Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.

Other human body activities to complement your unit:

• Click here for the DIGITAL ONLY bundle.
• Check out the human body review graphic organizers here.
• Learn more about the human body web activities here.

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