Health 2nd Grade Unit 2: Growth and Development
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- Grade 2, Elementary
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- 13
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- Answer key
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- P.E. & Health, Creative Arts, Art, Science, Human Body
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- Health unit, Human body
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This creator’s second-grade health series is organized into seven units.
Unit 1 Personal Health
Unit 2 Growth and Development
Unit 3 Nutrition and Physical Activity
Unit 4 Substance Use and Abuse
Unit 5 Injury/ Violence Prevention Control and Safety
Unit 6 Prevention/Control of Disease
Unit 7 Environmental Consumer Health
These units can be taught out of order. They are only numbered for your convenience. At the end of each unit, there is an assessment to test students’ understanding.
Through using this Health 2nd Grade Unit 2: Growth and Development students will explore and learn to identify major organs of the body as well as physical and emotional characteristics of themselves and others. They will explore their feelings and describe what makes them happy, angry, etc.
Students will also learn about the following body systems as they cut and paste a body together:
* Understand the Skeletal and Nervous body system
* Learn about the Circulatory body system
* Learn about the Digestive body system
* Learn about the Respiratory body system
* Learn about the Muscular body system
* Learn about the Skin and Hair body system
At the end of the unit, there is an assessment to check for understanding.
A total of 13 pages for this 2nd Grade Health Unit 2 on Growth and Development.
Related health resources are listed below; check their stated grade and fit with your local curriculum.
Health 2nd Grade Unit 1: Personal Health
Health 1st Grade Unit 3: Nutrition and Physical Activity
Health 2nd Grade Unit 4: Substance Use and Abuse
Health 2nd Grade Unit 5: Injury / Violence Prevention and Safety
Health 2nd Grade Unit 6: Prevention / Control of Disease
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Learning objectives
Identify major organs of the human body, including the brain
Name and assemble the six body-system sections used in the activity: skeletal/nervous, circulatory, digestive, respiratory, muscular, and skin/hair
Describe physical and emotional characteristics of themselves and others
Teaching tips
Have students complete the cut-and-assemble body-systems activity in the listed order (skeletal/nervous, circulatory, digestive, respiratory, muscular, skin/hair) so each layer is visible before the next covers it
Use the body-systems naming worksheet as a quick check right after the cut-and-assemble activity, while the layered body is still fresh in students' minds
Pair the 'how might someone feel after not doing well on a test' assessment question with a class discussion, since the unit's own feelings worksheets model that same kind of reflection
Skills covered
Human body system identification — students label major organs and build a full body by cutting and assembling six labeled body-system pieces in order.
Body-system recall — students independently name the body-system groups shown on a follow-up worksheet without the cut-and-assemble pieces as a guide.
Emotional and physical characteristic description — students color illustrated people and describe each one's emotional and physical characteristics based on visible features.
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How does the cut-and-assemble activity teach the body systems in a specific order?
Students build a full body by layering six system pieces in sequence — skeletal and nervous first, then circulatory, digestive, respiratory, and muscular, with skin and hair added last on top, followed by drawing eyes, hair, and clothes.
Does the unit connect body systems back to emotions, or keep the two topics separate?
They're connected through the assessment: after covering organs and body systems, one question asks how someone might feel if they don't do well on a test, and another asks students to read a pictured boy's emotion from his physical characteristics (a tear, a frown, slumped shoulders).
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