Muscular System Activities

Teach students about the muscular system using print and digital materials to introduce cardiac, smooth, and skeletal types, how muscles work, and why the muscular system is essential. This lesson comes with science worksheets, graphic organizers, and a review activity.

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Students will learn:

• What muscles are
• Three types - skeletal, smooth, and cardiac
  • Their functions
  • Examples of each
  • What they look like

This lesson includes:

• How to use teacher instructions
• Digital Google Slides links for the science packet and graphic organizers
• Three-page science packet
  • An additional page of comprehension questions
• Two graphic organizers - with scaffolded version
• Student instruction sheet for the review activity
• Four tab flipbook
• Rubric
• Answer key

How to use this activity in your classroom:

• First, introduce the muscular system using the reading worksheets.
• Next, summarize learning using the graphic organizers.
• Finally, reinforce muscular system concepts using the flipbook activity.
• Sub plans
• Review activities
• Science stations
• Enrichment activity

Feedback from teachers:

• These sketch notes are a great resource for teaching about the muscular system. One thing that was very helpful is that you have the ability to differentiate the notes based on students' needs.
• This is a great way to visualize the different types of muscle. It is clear and concise. My students enjoyed using it as a guided note in class.
• This is a great resource to use with my current muscular system unit. I am using the flipbook as part of their study guide.
• This was a great additional resource within my larger human body unit!

Other human body systems you might be interested in:

• Levels of Body Organization
• Skeletal and Muscular System
• Circulatory / Cardiovascular System
• Digestive System
• Respiratory and Excretory System
• Nervous System
• Endocrine System
• Reproductive System
• Immune System
• Integumentary System

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