Science topic
The human body
Body systems, cells, senses and keeping healthy.
Lessons
Grade 4Science
Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know?
Map the most sensitive spots on your skin, find the blind spot in each eye, lose the flavour of a jelly bean by pinching your nose, and build an owl ear. Four lessons on how senses gather information and the brain makes sense of it.
Grades 7–8Science
Cells: The Smallest Living Things
How small is a cell, how does water get in, what's inside, and why are cells so tiny? Four lessons with potatoes, strawberries and gelatin that work with a microscope or without one.
Grades 3–5Science
How Your Body Works
Why your heart races when you run, what happens to your lunch, how your arm bends and where germs hide. Students take their own pulse, build a model gut and a card elbow, and run a handwashing fair test with glitter 'germs'. Everyday materials, no winter, works in any country.
Printable worksheets
Online practice
- Five senses Kindergarten
- Match sense to body part Kindergarten
- Senses and their parts Grade 1
- Body parts help survive Grade 1
Reading passages
- How Bees Make Honey Grade 2 · Information
- Meet the Fennec Fox Grade 2 · Information
- Meet the Chameleon Grade 2 · Information
- Meet the Octopus Grade 2 · Information
- Meet the Salmon Grade 2 · Information
- Meet the Walrus Grade 2 · Information
- Meet the Platypus Grade 2 · Information
- Your Heart Grade 2 · Information
- Your Brain Grade 2 · Information
- Meet the Great White Shark Grade 3 · Information
- Meet the Honeybee Grade 3 · Information
- Your Lungs Grade 3 · Information