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Lesson Plan
Name: Justin Ray
Age/Grade Level: 7th Grade
Number of Students with IEP:
English Language Learners: 0
LIFE SCIENCE

Date: 10/19/16
Number of Students: 27
Number of Gifted Students: 0
Unit/Lesson Title: Human Body Systems 2
Lesson Length: 1:15 minutes

Context
Students have previously studied cells and cell organelles.
Introduced to progression from cells to organism
Students have been introduced to the names of the different human body systems.
Second block is my low block.
o 7 students in this block were retained last year
o They will be given an extra time, beyond this unit plan, to complete the
assignment.
o Notes will be provided on Google Classroom for them.
Learning Objectives(s)
By the end of this lesson students will be introduced to the nervous, circulatory, and
respiratory systems and will begin adding that knowledge to their culminating activity.
S7L2. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to describe how cell structures,
cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems interact to maintain the basic needs of
organisms.
b. Develop and use a conceptual model of how cells are organized into tissues,
tissues into organs, organs into systems, and systems into organisms
c. Construct an argument that systems of the body (Cardiovascular, Excretory,
Digestive, Respiratory, Muscular, Nervous, and Immune) interact with one
another to carry out life processes.
Essential Question(s)
How do Body Systems work together to form organisms?
Resources, Media and Technology
Smartboard
Pictures of different body systems
Google Classroom
Bell ringer
Graphic Organizer assignment instructions
Notes for second block
www.google.com
Chromebooks
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Students will use for bell ringer

Students can look at pictures of different body systems
Research for Graphic Organizer Assignment
White paper, color pencils, crayons, markers

Procedures
Begin Class with Bell Ringer using chromebooks and google classroom (10 minutes)
o How many organ systems can you name from memory? (Be honest. There is no
right answer to this question.)
o How many organ systems are there?
10 that we will look at.
o What would happen to an organism if an organ system stopped working?
It would die.

Lesson on major body systems. (40 minutes)

This is a combination of lecture, students using their chromebooks to look up pictures of
the nervous, circulatory, and respiratory system, and discussion about the body systems.
o Teach how all body systems are interconnected
Interdependence

Brief overview of the following body systems:

NOTE: This is an overview lesson to introduce the body systems and expose the students to the
content and concepts. Each Body system will be explored in more depth later and individually.
The idea here is to help them see the complexity of an organism, the complex relationships of
organ systems, and to begin scaffolding information for when we look at these systems later.
o Nervous System
Brain
Spinal Chord
Nervous
Sensory organs
o Circulatory System
Heart
Arteries
Veins
Capillaries
o Respiratory System
Lungs
Diaphragm
Mouth and Nose
Trachea

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Explain that some organs can be part of multiple body systems

o Example the heart works with the respiratory system to deliver O2 to the body.
Brief explanation

Researching body systems for assignment. (20 minutes)

o Students will begin working on the culminating activity that was assigned on day
one of this unit.

Informal Assessment
Bell Ringer
Assignment for future assessment
Human Body Systems Graphic Organizer:
Students are to create a graphic organizer with the following information: Name of system,
basic functions, organs, brief description of how it interacts with another body system.
This is to be done on white paper ONLY. Each student must turn in their own graphic
organizer but you can work together to answer questions and look up information. I will
be available to answer questions as well. Also, you have your chromebooks! There is a
whole internet of information and pictures that will help you with this assignment.
Systems to cover:
Circulatory System
Endocrine System
Immune System
Lymphatic System
Reproductive System
Muscular System

Digestive System
Excretory System
Integumentary System
Nervous system
Skeletal System

This will be a formal assessment and will be taken up at the end of the week.

(NOTE Differentiation: Second block has 7 students who were retained last year. This class is
the low class out of our 4 blocks. They will be afforded more time if needed to complete this
assignment.)

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