Urinary system activities

Last summer I attended a workshop through the University of Illinois’s extension campus. It was called “Mellow Yellow” and it was simply wonderful. Not only did they refresh my kn…

This is part 5 of a 7 part hands-on unit study on anatomy of the human body. Walk through your circulatory system, create a blood model and fake movie blood, measure your heart rate, dissect a heart, and more! These lessons are geared toward 4th-5th grade level children and their siblings. They were written by another creative mom for our weekly homeschool co-op. We meet each week for 2 1/2 hours and have 33 children between the ages of 1-13. Use these fun lessons with your classroom…

Last summer I attended a workshop through the University of Illinois's extension campus. It was called "Mellow Yellow" and it was simply wonderful. Not only did they refresh my knowledge of kidney function (and dysfunction), but they gave us several hands on activities that were ready to use with students. The concepts that tied it…

Excretory System Experiments, urinary tract experiment, excretory system

Week 12: We built a model of the kidneys and bladder. Urea arrives at the kidneys from the liver containing blood, waste and water. It is their job to filter it and send the waste onto the bladder for removal from the body. David Macaulay's The Way We Work was our reference book for this project. First we made urea by mixing lentils to represent the blood, water and yellow food coloring. We used a clothes rack to hold up the parts of our system. The kids tied two water bottles with the ends…

Urinary system apron teaching the kidneys in Biology GCSE science

Excretory system renal science project ideas 3D

Excretory System project 5th grade! My daughter used a funnel for the bladder, foam pipe insulation for the ureters (wrapped in duck tape, and kidney beans for the kidneys!