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Appropriate grades
3
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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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In this Science NetLinks lesson, students use an online interactive activity to learn about the concept of separate components working together to build a body system. In addition, this lesson focuses on activities to help students learn that body systems work together to build the functioning human body. This lesson could be used in conjunction with instruction on the human body and/or systems.

North Carolina Curriculum Alignment

Science (2005)

Grade 3

  • Goal 4: The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate technology to build an understanding of the form and function of the skeletal and muscle systems of the human body.
    • Objective 4.01: Identify the skeleton as a system of the human body.
    • Objective 4.02: Describe several functions of bones:
      • Support.
      • Protection.
      • Locomotion.