Overview of Station

1. We are planning on doing two main activities with our student group.
   1. First, we will do a puzzle to teach them how cells are organized to make up our body
   2. Second, a game show to evaluate what they have leraned from our lesson.
2. At the end, we will hand our a crossword puzzle to reinforce what we taught them.

Materials

• Bubble wrap
• Strong tape
• Spray paint
• Slightly bigger than life size cutout of a human body

Procedure (Total Time: 13 minutes for steps 1-6)

1. Ask the students thinking questions to lead into what we are going to talk about. "Can anyone describe a cell to me? The physical properties? Functions? Do you know how cells work in your body? Do all your cells do the same thing?"
2. Pass out a bag to each student that contains many construction paper cells.
3. Explain how different cells do different jobs in your body (blood cells, liver cells, etc.) and share other information about cells.
4. Give each student a piece of tissue paper. Each student will have to tape the cells onto the tissue paper. (If desired, the cells can be drawn on one sheet of paper and then cut jaggedly to form more of a puzzle.) During this time we will explain how cells of the same group form tissues.
5. Take the student-made tissues and staple then on top of each other onto cardboard to form an organ. This shows how tissues group together to form organs. (Since we are doing this project with six different stations, we will have each group of children put together a different organ.)
6. Explain how the organs group together to for organ systems. In this particular lesson we are using the digestive system as an example. After all the stations are finished we will put the different organs (liver, pancreas, appendix, intestines, gall-bladder, and stomach) together to form an organ system.
7. (Total Time: 7 minutes) It is now time for the game show!!! We will divide the students into two teams. We will ask a question to the first team, if they get it right then they earn a point and it is the other teams turn. If they answer the question wrong then the other team has a chance to answer the question and earn a point. The next question then goes to the other team. (If desired prizes can be awarded to the winning team.) Questions include:
   1. What makes up a tissue?
   2. What are the things that make up cells?
   3. What makes up organs?
   4. Where does the name tissue come from?
   5. What is the study of tissues called?
   6. How many cells are in the human body?
   7. Name four different organ systems.
   8. Name a few of the organs in the digestive system.
8. We will have a crossword puzzle prepared to hand out to the students when we are done that includes the vocabulary we used/taught them. (There are sites on the web that can help put a puzzle together for you.)

Resources

• Burke, David. Eyewitness book: LIFE.
  This book was great to find simple content and good pictures for the lesson.