Reading Knowledge
April 13 - 17
Monday, April 13th1) Watch video of "Lesson 1: The Amazing Human Body" read-aloud.
2) Discuss and answer questions to the right. 3) Using Knowledge activity page 1.1 (p. 119), write a sentence about each of the five senses. 4) Share activity page 1.2 (p. 121) with your parent. |
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Questions:
1) When you eat a sandwich, which body senses do you use, and what are the body parts associated with each sense? (Sight: eyes see the sandwich; smell: nose smells the sandwich; taste: mouth or tongue tastes the sandwich; hearing: ears hear the sandwich being eaten; touch: hands feel the sandwich.) 2) Sometimes when you have a cold, you lose your appetite. What other sense, working together with your sense of taste, could affect your appetite? (sense of smell) 3) What is the name of the body system that processes the food that you eat? (digestive) 4) What is the name of the system that removes liquid waste from your body? (excretory) 5) What are the other body systems? (skeletal, muscular, circulatory, and nervous systems) 6) Why does a nutritionist need to understand the human body? (The body is a complex machine that needs certain foods for the maintenance of its parts; a nutritionist needs to understand the relationship between the two.) 7) Why did the author call the human body "the human machine"? 8) Is this a good name for the human body? Why or why not? 9) What are the five senses? (touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing) |
Tuesday, April 14th1) Watch video of "Lesson 2: Anton van Leeuwenhoek" read-aloud.
2) Discuss and answer questions to the right. 3) Using Knowledge activity page 2.1 (p. 123), write three sentences about Anton van Leeuwenhoek. |
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Questions:
1) What was Anton van Leeuwenhoek's important discovery? (bacteria, tiny living things not visible with the naked eye) 2) What instrument made Anton's discovery possible? How? (He used a microscope with its magnifying lens to magnify drops of water, his own saliva, and many other things.) 3) What adjectives would you use to describe Anton van Leeuwenhoek? (curious, patient, hardworking, smart, observant, and brave) 4) Anton lived a very long time ago, so how do we know so much about his discoveries? (He kept detailed journals, many of which were published in England.) 5) Do you think Anton van Leeuwenhoek is a good hero for Nick Nutri? Why or why not? |
Wednesday, April 15th1) Watch video of "Lesson 3: Cells and Tissues" read-aloud.
2) Discuss and answer questions to the right. 3) On Knowledge activity page 3.1 (p. 127) write two sentences, one about cells and another about tissue. |
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Questions:
1) What is the smallest microscopic building block of all living things? (a cell) 2) What is a group of the same cells that perform the same job called? (tissue) 3) Why are cells called microscopic? (They are too small to be seen without the aid of a microscope.) 4) There are four types of tissue: connective, muscle, nervous, and epithelial. What type of tissue is you blood? Why? (connective; It connects all parts of your body.) 5) How do we know that cells are alive? (Just like other living organisms, cells need nutrients and air. They grow, split, make new cells, and die.) 6) What is the connection between cells and tissue? (Tissue is made up of cells that all have the same function, or job.) |
Thursday, April 16th1) Watch video of "Lesson 4: Organs" read-aloud.
2) Discuss and answer questions to the right. 3) On Knowledge activity page 4.1 (p. 129), use the word bank at the top to complete the chart. Check your paper with poster on right. 4) Try to solve the riddles on the far right. |
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Questions:
1) Name one of the important body organs that you heard about today. (ex: eyes, ears, heart, lungs, stomach, skin, bones, heart, spinal cord, brain, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, kidneys.) 2) The heart, skin, and bones are all organs. What does that tell you about the size, shape, and texture of body organs? (They are all different. No two organs are the same.) 3) What is the connection between tissues and organs? (Organs are made up of tissues.) 4) Cells group together to form tissues; tissues group together to form organs. What do groups of organs form? (systems) Riddles
1) I am one of your sense organs, the largest body organ. What am I? (skin) 2) I am the system responsible for circulating, or moving, blood to all other systems. What am I? (circulatory system) 3) I am an instrument used to view microscopic organisms. What am I? (microscope) 4) I am the system responsible for carrying oxygen to your lungs so that you can respire, or breathe. What am I? (respiratory system) 5) I work with your sense of taste to make eating pleasurable for you. What am I? (sense of smell) 6) I am one of the body's building blocks, the smallest unit of life that can carry out functions of living things. What am I? (cell) |
Friday, April 17th1) Watch video of "Lesson 5: The Digestive System" read-aloud. 2) Discuss and answer questions to the right. 3) On Knowledge activity page 5.1 (p. 135), number the steps of the digestion process in order 1-6 following food from mouth to anus. 4) Use activity page 5.2 (p. 137) to write 2-3 sentences about the digestive system: one introductory sentence and 1-2 sentences with details about the digestive system. Check your paper with answer key on right. 5) Try to solve some more riddles on the far right. 6) Share activity page 5.3 (p.139) with your parent. |
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Questions:
1) You learned that both saliva and gastric juices work to kill germs. Why is that necessary? (Germs are everywhere.) 2) How do germs get into your body? (It is impossible not to breathe them through the air and ingest them with our food.) 3) You learned that the liver filters waste from your blood. Why is it important to have clean blood? (Blood travels to all parts of your body, and it would not be good to have waste circulating through the body.) Riddles
1) I am a curved piece of glass used to magnify objects on a microscope. What am I? (lens) 2) I am the softest and most abundant tissue in the human body. What am I? (muscle tissue) 3) I am a tiny, one-celled organism that Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered when looking at water through a microscope. What am I? (bacteria) 4) I am made up of body tissues, groups of similar cells. What am I? (an organ) 5) I may live for a very short time, but when I die your body will replace me. What am I? (a cell) |