What if you could you see inside yourself with X-ray vision? Use Crayola® Washable Window Markers or Crayola Window Crayons to create a life-sized look inside your body.

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  The human body has more than 200 bones called the skeletal system. This network of bones has many important jobs. Your skeleton supports your body, protects internal organs, works with muscles to create movement, and contains cells that help keep your body healthy. Find out more about your skeletal system.

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  Organs are two or more kinds of tissue joined together to perform a task. For example, your heart is a major organ whose job is to pump blood through your body. A group of organs forms an organ system. Find out the names and functions of your body's major organs.

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  Can you imagine what all these bones and organs look like inside you? Find out by making a See-Through Body! Ask a classmate to use Crayola Twistables Crayons on craft paper to trace the outline of your body. When you finish tracing each other, use Crayola Scissors to cut out your outlines.

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  Ask your teacher to help you find a large area of glass on which you can trace yourself. Tape paper to glass. Use Crayola Washable Window Markers or Crayola Window Crayons to trace the outline on the glass.

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  Use the markers to draw major bones and organs in your body. If you change your mind, just wipe with a damp paper towel and draw again. Label each bone and organ if you like. Isn't the human body truly amazing?

Standards

• LA: Read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grade level text complexity band independently and proficiently.
• LA: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas and information clearly.
• LA: Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grade level topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
• LA: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace.
• SCI: Construct explanations of how structures in animals serve functions of growth, survival, reproduction, and behavior.
• SCI: Obtain information that animals have structures that allow them to respond to stimuli through instinct or memory.
• VA: Use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• VA: Use visual structures of art to communicate ideas.

Adaptations

• Possible classroom resources include: First Human Body Encyclopedia by DK Publishing; Me and My Amazing Body by Joan Sweeney; Human Body by DK Publishing; My Body by Patty Carratello
• Students use heavy brown paper to outline their bodies. Create skin-colored flaps using Crayola Multicultural Crayons to cover each area. Underneath the flaps, students draw major organs. Using the interior of each flap, students will write a brief description of the organ or body part illustrated.
• Working in small groups, students conduct an in-depth study of a selected organ or system of the human body, such as the cardiovascular system, brain, etc. Prior to beginning the in-depth study, the class comes together to compose a set of questions to be answered during the study. Organize research into a summary paragraph. Students use Crayola Window Crayola to sketch their system onto glass. Display the summary paragraph along side the system sketch. If there is adequate room, students may write their research summary on the window along side their sketch.