This document provides an overview of a body systems unit that examines how the body's organs and systems work interdependently to carry out everyday tasks. The unit is broken into four subunits that focus on physical activity, energy management, the nervous system, and bodily defense. Each subunit includes assessments, research components, questioning activities, and observations to explore how different body systems must work together to allow the body to function and carry out tasks like playing soccer, eating dinner, and fighting illness.

1. Body Systems Unit – How do your organs and systems work together to help you function?
This unit is broken into 4 everyday tasks to show interdependence of each system on other systems. The everyday tasks were chosen
to represent 3 major functions of the human body: Physical activity(soccer), Energy management(eating supper), Bodily
defense(getting sick or injured). Below is a breakdown of the four subunits showing what content is to be considered for each, how to
begin each subunit.
Physical Activity – Playing Energy Management – Eating Exploring the Nervous System Bodily Defense – Getting Sick
Soccer Supper
Assessment: Assessment: Assessment:
• Choosing your favorite • Create a flowchart • Create a super germ that
activity, how does your showing the path of will infect the human
body perform the food through the body body and shut down it’s
actions required for this • Include in your chart defenses.
activity. important energy • Show what the defenses
• List all the systems processes; explaining are for the body,
involved and the jobs of their purpose, the including and organs,
specific organs to help organs involved and cells, hormones or other
you play. how they function substances the body has
for defense
• Demonstrate how your
Research: Research: germ can defeat or
• Answer the questions • Answer the questions escape the body
that were created during that were created during defenses.
the questioning the questioning
activities. activities. Research:
• Define roles of each • Define roles of each • Answer the questions
individual system. individual system. that were created during
• Give a detailed • Give a detailed the questioning
explanation of how each explanation of how each activities.
of the major organs in of the major organs in
each system help the each system help the • Define roles of each
body to performs the body to performs the individual system.
appropriate tasks appropriate tasks

2. Question: Question: • Give a detailed
• Think about the body • Think about the body explanation of how each
parts that were created parts that were created of the major organs in
during the brainstorm. during the brainstorm. each system help the
Create questions to help Create questions to help body to performs the
you find out how those you find out how those appropriate tasks
parts and their systems parts and their systems
work together. work together. Question:
• Begin creating • Begin creating • Think about the body
questions that you want questions that you want parts that were created
answered to help answered to help during the brainstorm.
explain how your body explain how your body Create questions to help
reacts to the physical creates and uses energy, you find out how those
activity then disposes of the parts and their systems
waste work together.
Observe: • Begin creating
• Think about the activity questions that you want
that your body is being Observe: answered to help
asked to do. Brainstorm • Think about the activity explain the defenses you
body parts that help you that your body is being body uses against germs
perform the activity. asked to do. Brainstorm
• If you can begin linking body parts that help you Observe:
the body parts to a perform the activity. • Think about the activity
particular system that • If you can begin linking that your body is being
you think might be the body parts to a asked to do. Brainstorm
involved with this particular system that body parts that help you
activity. you think might be perform the activity.
involved with this • If you can begin linking
activity. the body parts to a
particular system that
you think might be
involved with this
activity.