How Your Skin Protects Your Body, Read and Answer

Have your child find the body part on their own body before each page, such as feeling their ribs rise as they breathe. On the order the steps pages, read the passage for words like first, next and finally. Check with the answer key.

Read how skin keeps germs out and water in, cools the body with sweat and senses touch through nerves. A pore is a tiny opening in your skin. The directions on the page read: Read the passage. Then, turn the page and answer the questions. On page 2: Circle the letter of the best answer for questions 1 to 3, and write the answers to questions 4 to 6 on the lines. The answer key covers the questions on page 2.

Yes, both. We made it for 5th Grade living things, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with human body systems. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Usually the skeletal, muscular, respiratory, circulatory, digestive, excretory and nervous systems. Each is a group of organs with one main job, and the systems team up to keep the body alive and moving.

The lungs take in oxygen from the air. The heart pumps blood through the lungs to pick up oxygen, then out to the body, and the blood brings back carbon dioxide for the lungs to breathe out.

Receptors in the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin detect light, sound, chemicals, pressure and heat. Nerves carry the message to the brain, which decides what to do and sends a message to the muscles. A ruler drop test measures how long that takes.

Yes. All fourteen human body sheets have an answer key that shows every answer, including sample answers for the questions children explain in their own words.

14 printable worksheets, all free to preview. Downloads are included with a ClassWeekly free trial, and every page prints on standard 8.5 x 11 paper.

These are written for 5th Grade students, roughly ages 10-11. Many teachers also use them a grade up for review or a grade down as an extension, so use the preview to judge the fit for a particular child.