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Our Amazing Bodies

Overview

Children explore what is inside the human body, discovering the major organs and what each one does.

Learning Objective
Children identify major organs of the human body and understand their basic function.

Resources needed

  • None — or a simple body outline drawn on paper or ground

Lesson stages

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  1. 1 Draw a simple body outline on paper or in soil.
  2. 2 Ask: what do you think is inside your body?
  3. 3 Place organs one by one: brain, heart, lungs, stomach, bones.
  4. 4 For each organ: what does it do? (brain thinks, heart pumps, lungs breathe, stomach digests, bones support).
  5. 5 Feel your heartbeat: place hand on chest after jumping on the spot.
  6. 6 Feel your breathing: breathe deeply and feel chest and belly expand.
  7. 7 Ask: which organ do you think is most important? Can you argue for any of them?

Tap a step to mark it as done.

Variations

  • Measure heart rate at rest and after exercise.
  • Listen to a heartbeat through a cupped ear on someone's chest.
  • Trace a meal through the digestive system from mouth to exit.
More information

Teach: organ, brain, heart, lungs, stomach, bones, skeleton, function. A simple body outline with organ labels serves as a reference throughout the lesson.

Focus on three organs — brain, heart, lungs — before introducing the full set.

Can children name and locate five organs? Can they describe the basic function of each one?

Draw the body outline in soil. No printed materials needed. Children's own bodies are the primary resource — feel heartbeat, feel breathing, feel bones.

Children often think the heart is where feelings happen. The heart is a pump — feelings involve the brain, despite the cultural associations.

Basic human anatomy gives children ownership of their own biology. Connecting organs to felt experiences makes abstract internal processes tangible.

Activity details
Primary Easy 20 minutes no prep Whole Class Indoor & Outdoor
Topics
Human Body Organs Biology