6th Grade Body Systems Project

 

Objective:  The students will be divided into groups of 5.  Each group will create a Power Point presentation covering the topics listed below.  Each student in the group will be responsible for completing 6 slides for their assigned topic.  Information may be gathered from the Internet, textbooks, and other reference books.  All resources from which information or pictures are taken will be listed in the final slide. 

5 Topics:

  1. Respiratory System
  2. Circulatory System
  3. Excretory System
  4. Diseases and Immune System
  5. Drugs and Other Things that Harm Us

 

Web Sites:

Respiratory System:

http://infozone.imcpl.org/kids_resp.htm

Looking at your Lungs   

The Respiratory System 

http://www.lung.ca/children/grades4_6/respiratory/how_we_breathe.html

 

Circulatory System:

http://infozone.imcpl.org/kids_circ.htm

All about the Heart  

The Circle of Blood 

Electric Heart  Excellent link to Map of the Heart!

 

Excretory System:

http://infozone.imcpl.org/kids_kidny.htm

What Kids Need to Know about Kidneys 

http://www.borg.com/~lubehawk/hexcrsys.htm

 http://kidney.niddk.nih.gov/kudiseases/pubs/yoururinary/

 

Diseases and Immune System:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/immune-system.htm

http://www.niaid.nih.gov/final/immun/immun.htm

http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/MBChB/2b.html

http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c1.html  (bacteria)

http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/c2.html  (virus)

http://www.rkm.com.au/imagelibrary/index.html  (pictures of viruses and bacteria)

 

Drugs and Other Harmful Things:

http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/%7Etimiraos/

http://www.streetdrugs.org/drugindex.htm

http://scienceu.fsu.edu/content/tobaccoyou/health/lungcancereffects.html

http://www.cansa.org.za/smoking/stop_smoking_page-1.asp

Power Point Slides for Final Group Project:

  1. Opening title slide created by the group
  2. 6 slides for each of the above 5 topics created by individual group members  (The content for each of these 6 slides is described below.)
  3. Bibliography with all web sites and sources used
  4. Final presentation for each group will contain 32 slides.

 

           

Respiratory System:

            Slides:

1.      Name of system and your name

2.      Labeled drawing of lungs imported from the Paint program including:  mouth, nose, capillaries, air sacs, diaphragm, windpipe, and bronchial tubes

3.      Picture of the lungs from the internet

4.      The 5 steps of the inhalation process

5.      The 5 steps of the exhalation process

6.      3 fun facts about the respiratory system

 

 

Circulatory System:

            Slides:

    1. Name of system and your name
    2. Labeled drawing of the heart imported from the Paint program including:  right and left atriums, right and left ventricles, aorta, pulmonary artery and vein, superior vena cava, inferior vena cava, and septum
    3. Picture of the heart from the internet
    4. Description of the function of each part labeled in #2 above
    5. The path of blood flow through the heart
    6. 3 fun facts about the circulatory system

 

 

Excretory System:

            Slides:

1.      Name of system and your name

2.      The 3 ways wastes are removed from the body

3.      Labeled drawing of the kidneys and bladder imported from the Paint program including:  kidneys, bladder, artery, and vein

4.      Picture of the lungs and kidneys from the internet

5.      Description of the function of each part labeled in #3 above

6.      3 fun facts about the excretory system

 

 

Disease and Immune System:

            Slides:

1.      Name of system and your name

2.      Bacteria vs. Virus – How they are different and similar

3.      Immune system – How it works

4.      Choose 4 diseases.  For each disease tell if a bacteria or a virus causes it, give 2 symptoms, and explain how it’s spread.

5.      Drawing of a virus or bacteria.

6.      3 fun facts about the immune system

 

 

Drugs and Other Things That Harm Us:

            Slides:

1.      Title and your name

2.      Chart of legal and illegal drugs with examples of each

3.      Picture from internet of liver after drinking or lungs after smoking

4.      4 or 5 dangers of drugs

5.      Things to do instead of drugs

6.      3 statistics about drugs