Human Body Unit: The Hand

Our Study of the Human Hand

Why do we have so many bones in our hand?

We talked about the fact that there are 27 bones in the hand. First, to demonstrate why this is important I did an activity we had done a couple years ago. We pretended that we just had one bone per finger by taping popcycle sticks to their fingers.  Then they had to pick up beads. They found they could do it if they scooped up the beads

The Bones of the Hand:
Next, we did the wonderful idea I picked up from Almost Homeschoolers. They actually used bits of colored dough and baked their hands together. We used icing instead.

 

We talked about the bones of the hands and learned the names of

X-Ray of the Hand and other Activities

We worked on a couple of the experiments we have from The Young Scientist Club. I got the ready-made experiments from NOEO science. (I did not buy their entire curriculum, I just bought the set of five experiment kits as this was one of the best prices I found on the Internet.) I’m adding in those experiments as we get to them throughout the year. The experiment below (also from the kit) shows the ball and socket bones.

We got this hand-claw kit earlier this summer from another family.  We talked about why it’s so important to have a thumb. Before we attached the thumb, we tried to pick things up with just the fingers.

It was pretty hard, though the kids realized they could squeeze their fingers together (making a scissoring motion) to pick smaller things up.

But when the thumb was added, how easy it was!

We have a Skeleton Worksheet Packet which includes worksheets on the human body skeletal system — including the bones of the hand.

Skeleton Worksheet Packet: Notebook pages and lapbook pages for learning about the bones of the body. Approx. 90 pages.

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These are some of the packets that are included in our Human Body Bundle.  See photos down below or at this Human Body Bundle Page or in Our Store.

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$5.99 Endocrine System Packet – (60 pages) Exocrine glands are those glands that have ducts and lead to the surface of the body… like sweat glands, tear glands whereas endocrine glands (like the hypothalamus or thyroid) secrete hormones into the bloodstream.

$5.99 Five Senses Unit: This 100+ page Five Senses Unit has dozens of hands-on activities and detailed, colorful worksheets for learning all about the five senses – sight & the eye, hearing & the ear, taste & the tongue, smell & the nose, touch & the skin. (NOTE: This unit is NOT included in the Human Body BUNDLE 1 or 2.) Recommended for PreK to Early Elementary. View Post, image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5

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$42.99 Human Body BUNDLE OPTION 2: Human Body Systems, A Study of Cells Unit, Skeletal System Packet, Digestive System, Circulatory System Unit,  Muscular System Packet, Nervous System Packet, Endocrine System, Reproductive System Worksheets (We often talked about cells as we started our Human Body Units… then went on to talk about human body cells, tissues, organs & systems… and then would move on to a different body system each year. Generally as homeschoolers, we covered just one or two major body systems each year before moving on to another science topic.) (Does not include the Five Senses Unit.)

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Overview of the Human Body Systems

We started this unit with a fun album called the Human Body Rock (we borrowed it from the library, but it’s available at Amazon) that we listened to as we made our two trips to the doctors last week (for LD’s allergy shots). The first song goes over the body systems in a fun, general way and we used that as a spring-board for talking about all the systems. We reviewed all the Human Body Systems.  Find out more about our Human Body Systems Packet here:

Human Body System Packet:

This packet now includes a page about the skin (the body’s largest organ) and a few pages about the organs (and which systems they are a part of):