Body Book: Easy-to-Make Hands-On Models that Teach

My son (11) and daughter (8) and I learned so much from this activity bookand we had so much fun doing it too! Talk about hands-on learning! Over the course of a couple months we learned about and created each body section until we had completed an entire human body Even a year later we continue to use our skeleton friend as a handy resource for remembering our anatomy It was definitely worth the price - what a bargain!

I purchased this book as a hands-on supplement to my third grader's science unit on the human body It proved to be an invaluable experience for both of us My daughter had so much fun creating the model that she forgot it was school! The book helped her to have a concrete understanding of the placement and function of our body parts (I learned quite a lot as well!) The book provides directions and reproducible pages to complete a whole model of the human body but there is also the option to study just one particular system (eg the digestive system) It's perfect for the child who loves crafts and who works well with manipulative-based instruction Our family will definitely use this again Before using the book I would suggest thoroughly reading and constructing the model yourself first as well as copying the pages onto a heavier weight paper (like cardstock)for durability I found some of the directions to be too difficult for my 8-year-old to follow without some guidance It made a great together activity and an older child would probably be able to finish it indepedently