Otter's Elementary Science Curriculum: The Human Body Week 6 Muscles
Kid’s Discover: Muscles
p. 6-7
p. 8-9
p. 10-11
Blood and Guts
p.37-39
Activity: Model arm
Supplies needed: cardboard squares or paper towel tubes, balloons, paper clip
p.40-43
Activity: magnifying muscles
Supplies needed: piece of steak or chicken, magnifying glass or microscope, optional stain: red and blue food coloring, alcohol
p. 43
Activity: hairpin dance
Supplies needed: hair pin or bent wire
Muscles
Joints
The Body Book (Grades 3-6)
p.61-65 Joints Make the model
Optional Book Human Body (Grades 5-8)
p. 19 Muscle man
p.20 Skeletal muscles
Usborne - Muscles, bent arm, straight arm