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**Fun educational games for 4th graders!**
Parents- Understanding 4th Grade.
Good family fun site
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3986Yfl5cU TeacherTeacher Resources
Discovery Kids; (2009). Your Digestive System.
Retrieved December 4, 2009, from Discovery Kids website:
http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000126.html
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(March 2007). Your Your Digestive System.
Retrieved December 4, 2009, from Kids Health from Nemours Website:
http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/digestive_system.html#
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NIH Publication; (April 2008). Your Digestive System and How it Works.
Retrieved December 4, 2009, from Digestive Diseases Home:
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/
Rajshri; (Nov. 13, 2008). Learn Human Body- Digestive System.
Retrieved December 4, 2009, from Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3986Yfl5cU Teacher Resources
Discovery Kids; (2009). Your Digestive System.
Retrieved December 4, 2009, from Discovery Kids website:
http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000126.html
Kids Health from Nemours; (March 2007). Your Digestive System.
Retrieved December 4, 2009, from Kids Health from Nemours Website:
http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/digestive_system.html#
HMH School Publishers; Parts of Your Digestive System
Retrieved December 4, 2009, from HMH School Publishers
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/digest/index.htm
Rick Morris; (2009). The Six Types of Nutrients.
Retrieved December 5, 2009. from Running Planet:
http://www.runningplanet.com/training/nutrient-types.html
Discovery Communications; (2007). Puzzle Maker.
Retrieved December 5, 2009, from Discovery Education:
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/CrissCrossSetupForm.asp
NIH Publication; (April 2008). Your Digestive System and How it Works.
Retrieved December 4, 2009, from Digestive Diseases Home:
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/
Rajshri; (Nov. 13, 2008). Learn Human Body- Digestive System.
Retrieved December 4, 2009, from Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NJzvZbd1qk
Dizzo95; (July 21, 2007). The Digestive System Animation.
Retrieved December 5, 2009, from Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3986Yfl5cU
Student Activites Page
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Create a Nutrient Crossword Puzzle
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Day 4
Create a Nutrient Crossword Puzzle
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Objective: You are going to create a crossword puzzle that gives the player clues to a nutrient and the answer of the nutrient is in the puzzle. Once you create your puzzle you will print it and switch puzzles with a friend.
Instructions:
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Print out your puzzle by selecting file print.
Switch puzzles with a friend and complete.
Start to work on project for Day 5, by taking pictures of the foods you eat with a digital camera. Take pictures of breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 5
Create A Food Album
Objective: Track your food intake for an entire day. You can use a digital camera and take pictures of the different foods that you put into your body. You are going to organize those foods into breakfast lunch and dinner. You are going to create a Food Album in iPhoto. In the picture description you can write about what your body keeps from the foods. You also can write about how the food is digested.
Instructions:
Upload your pictures to the computer using your usb cord and opening iPhoto application.
Once in iPhoto, go to File, then choose new album, then select book.
Name it YOUR NAME's Food Album.
On the cover of the book, put a picture of you eating your food and title it.
On the description page write why you are making this book, and about the importance of the digestive system.
Use the arrows on the bottom right to go to different pages of the book.
Pull your pictures down from the top bar and place them into the different boxes.
Choose the layout button at the bottom of the screen for different layouts. Choose the layouts with descriptions so you can write below the pictures.
You can also change the backgrounds by using the background button.
Explore the program, and be as creative as you like.
Be sure to include descriptions. Explain how the food is digested in your body. You can also get other pictures off the internet to help your story.
This album should show your understanding of the digestive system and what we have learned this week.
Once you have finished, print out your album and staple the pages together.
