My Body

Kindergarten, First Grade Science,

by Nichelle Neal August 17, 2015

This simple lesson plan will help your students gain a basic understanding of different body parts.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to identify some common body parts.

Materials and Preparation Key Terms

Chart paper the size of each student head

Your Body worksheet arms
My Body Parts Song video by Elearnin legs
chest
hands
feet

Attachments

PDF
My Body

Introduction (10 minutes)

Tell the students you are going to listen to a song to help them review their body parts.
Play the My Body Parts Song video. Repeat the video if needed.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (10 minutes)

Review body parts with the students. Go over parts that you feel weren't gone over in the body part song.
Introduce the body tracing activity to the students.

Guided Practice/Interactive Modeling (15 minutes)

Have a student trace you on a piece of paper and help you label your body parts.
Display you outline and review each body part—head , arms, legs, chest, hands, and feet—with the
students.

Independent Working Time (20 minutes)

Have students work in pairs and trace each other.

Once they have traced each other, have them label their bodies.

Differentiation

Enrichment: Have advanced students use the backs of their worksheets to write descriptions for what
each body part does.
Support: Give struggling students one-on-one assistance with identifying the different body parts.

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Assessment (10 minutes)

Have students complete the Your Body worksheet.

Collect the worksheet once they're done working. Review it to assess their understanding.

Review and Closing (5 minutes)

Display students' work on the walls of the classroom.

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