Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.1B Grade 2 CPI 1

 

Standard: 2.1 - Wellness

 

Strand: B - Growth and Development

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will name and locate body organs and parts.

 

Grade: 2

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        HEART HEALTHY - Trace a body outline and attach it to a wall in the classroom. Ask a volunteer to place a picture or drawing of a heart in the correct location on the outline. Ask each student to place a hand over his/her heart to feel it beating. Use a stethoscope to allow each child to hear his/her own heartbeat and that of another classmate. Explain that the sound means that the heart (a pump) is pumping blood throughout the body. Explain that blood carries important things like oxygen to all parts of the body. Ask students what they do to keep their muscles in shape. Make the connection that exercise for the body is exercise for the heart and explain how exercise helps the heart to pump more effectively. Brainstorm other ways to keep the heart healthy and list them on the board. Finish the activity by having each student write “I will keep my heart healthy by...”

 

      Variation: Create a smock or apron with Velcro attached in areas where important body organs are located. Laminate pictures of body organs and have students attach the pictures to the smock using the Velcro. Talk about how the body organs work together to keep you healthy.

 

      Variation: Pair students and give each student a large sheet of chart paper and markers. Partners outline each other’s body on the paper and then draw designated body organs (e.g., brain, heart, stomach) on the outline. Each pair locates pictures in magazines that illustrate positive health behaviors and activities that have a healthy effect on body organs (e.g., exercising, eating fruit, not smoking). Students arrange the pictures around their body outline. Display the student work and use it to review the location and role of body organs and systems.