The world around us: a class pack

12 lesson cards, each followed by its sheet. Print the lot, or choose pages in the print dialog.

The Lub-Dub Club

A 3D tour of your heart

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Put a hand on your chest and feel your heart. Jump ten times, then feel again: is it faster?

On the projector

Step through the chapters with Next, pausing to ask "What will the blood cell do now?" Do the quiz together, the class voting on each answer.

Open it with /heart/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Pulse detectives: find the pulse at your wrist or neck and count the beats while a partner counts to ten.

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The Huff-Puff Club

A 3D tour of your lungs

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Breathe in slowly and feel your chest get bigger, then breathe out. How long can you blow on your hand?

On the projector

Stop at each chapter to breathe in and out together, then vote on the quiz answers.

Open it with /lungs/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Bubble breaths: blow gently through a straw into a cup of water, and watch the air you breathed out come out as bubbles.

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The Huff-Puff Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each one by its number (or say them, and you write). Then count breaths for a minute, sitting still and after star jumps, and breathe on a cold window to see the cloud.

1234561.2.3.4.5.6.trachea · bronchi · bronchiolesalveoli · heart · diaphragmCount your breaths for one minuteSitting stillAfter 20 star jumpsWhich is more? That's the running emu.Breathe on a cold window.Draw your cloud here:
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The Munch-Crunch Club

A 3D tour of your tummy

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Pretend to take a bite of an apple and chew. Where does the apple go next?

On the projector

Stop after each chapter to trace the food's path on your own body with a finger.

Open it with /tummy/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Draw the bite's journey: mouth, food pipe, tummy, intestines, on the tour's sheet.

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The Munch-Crunch Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each one by its number (or say them, and you write). Help the apple through the maze, then count your teeth in a mirror, top and bottom.

1234561.2.3.4.5.6.stomach · large intestine · liveroesophagus · pancreas · small intestineHelp the apple from the mouth to the toiletCount your teeth in a mirrorTop teethBottom teethAll togetherMost children have 20 baby teeth.
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The Mix-Fix Club

A 3D tour of your liver

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Where is your liver? Put a hand on the right side, just under your ribs.

On the projector

Pause after each chapter to recap what the liver just did. Vote on the quiz together.

Open it with /liver/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Liver jobs mime: groups act out storing, cleaning and making bile while the class guesses.

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The Mix-Fix Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each one by its number (or say them, and you write). Colour the honeycomb of lobules and find the sugar, then draw lines: storing sugar and making bile are mixing, cleaning out toxins is fixing.

1234561.2.3.4.5.6.heart · stomach · livergallbladder · small intestine · portal veinColour the lobules. Can you find the sugar?Mix or fix? Draw a line.storing sugartoxinsmaking bilemixfix
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The Drip-Drop Club

A 3D tour of your kidneys

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Put your hands on your back, above your waist: your kidneys are there, one on each side.

On the projector

Step through with Next, and ask the class to predict where the urea goes next.

Open it with /kidneys/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

A water check: talk about how much water we drink each day, and draw a cup for each one.

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The Drip-Drop Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each one by its number (or say them, and you write). For "Back or out?", draw a line from each thing to where it goes: the tubule takes the sugar and salt back into the blood, the urea goes out in the wee, and water goes both ways. Then colour a drop for every drink today. There's no right number: drink when you're thirsty.

1234561.2.3.4.5.6.kidneys · ureters · bladderurethra · renal artery · nephronBack or out?watersugarsaltureaback intothe bloodout inthe weeTip: water goes both ways!A drip-drop dayColour a drop for every drink today.
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The Zip-Zap Club

A 3D tour of your brain

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Touch your nose, then your knee, then your ear. Your brain sent those messages!

On the projector

After each chapter, play a quick "message": you say a part, the class touches it.

Open it with /brain/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Message game: pass a squeeze around a circle holding hands, like a message along a nerve.

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The Zip-Zap Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each one by its number (or say them, and you write). Try the knee-jerk reflex with a grown-up: a gentle tap is all it needs, and it's fine if it doesn't happen every time. Then colour the left half of the brain and the child's right side the same colour, and the right half and their left side another colour: each half of the brain moves the other side of the body.

1234561.2.3.4.5.6.skull · cerebrum · cerebellumbrain stem · spinal cord · nerveA reflex! (with a grown-up)tap!1. Sit up high, legs dangling.2. A grown-up taps gently, just below your knee.3. Does your leg kick by itself? A reflex!yesnot this timeLeft and right: colour to matchleft halfright halfthe brain, from above (front at the top)their righttheir left
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The Five-Alive Club

A 3D tour of your senses

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Close your eyes and listen: what can you hear? Open them: what can you see?

On the projector

Stop after each sense to try it: look, listen, sniff, touch.

Open it with /senses/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

A feely bag: children guess objects by touch alone, then by sound.

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The Five-Alive Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each one by its number (or say them, and you write). For the senses hunt, look, listen, sniff, taste and touch around you, and draw or write one thing for each. Then draw a line from each thing to the sense that finds it. Some things use more than one sense: that's fine too!

123456the eyethe ear1.2.3.4.5.6.pupil · lens · retinaear canal · eardrum · cochleaA senses huntI can seeI can hearI can smellI can tasteI can touchWhich sense?a rainbowa bella floweran ice blocka soft teddy
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The Tickle-Prickle Club

A 3D tour of your skin

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Rub your hands together fast. Feel them get warm? Your skin feels hot and cold.

On the projector

Pause after each chapter to feel something: rough, smooth, warm, cool.

Open it with /skin/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Texture hunt: children rub crayon over things in the room and name how each one feels.

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The Tickle-Prickle Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each one by its number (or say them, and you write). For your fingerprints, rub a soft pencil on scrap paper, press a fingertip on it, then press it in a box. Look closely: is it a loop, a whorl or an arch? Last, draw a line from each place to what your skin does there.

123456a slice of skin1.2.3.4.5.6.epidermis · dermis · fat layerpore · sweat gland · hairMy fingerprintsthumbpointermiddleringlittleCircle the one that looks like yours:loopwhorlarchHot or cold?a sunny beacha snowy hilla warm bathan ice blocksweatgoosebumps
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The Click-Clack Club

A 3D tour of your bones

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Feel your bones: your knee, your elbow, the bones in your fingers. Bend them.

On the projector

Stop after each chapter to find that bone on your own body.

Open it with /bones/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Paper-straw skeletons: groups make an arm or a hand, bending at the joints.

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The Click-Clack Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each one by its number (or say them, and you write). Next, bend your elbow and your knee, and swing your arm round at the shoulder: draw a line from each joint to the door hinge or the ball in a cup. Last, measure an arm and a leg with a piece of string, and measure again in a few months. Everyone grows at their own pace.

1234561.2.3.4.5.6.skull · ribs · backbonepelvis · femur · kneeHinge, or ball and socket?elbowkneeshoulderhipa door hingea ball in a cupMy bonesMeasure with a piece of string.My arm islong.My leg islong.Measure again later. Grown? Draw a star!
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The Heave-Ho Club

A 3D tour of your muscles

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Make a muscle with your arm. Now relax it. Feel the difference?

On the projector

Pause after each chapter to try the move: pull, push, lift.

Open it with /muscles/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Muscle moves circuit: stations for jumping, stretching and balancing.

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The Heave-Ho Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each muscle's name by its number (or say them, and you write). Next, draw a line from each muscle to its pull partner: the one that pulls the other way. Last, make a muscle and draw it, then put a hand on your chest and count your heartbeats while a grown-up watches the clock for 15 seconds: once sitting still, and again after moving about: hopping, dancing, waving your arms, or any way you like to move. Everyone's heart and muscles are different: there's no right number.

1234561.2.3.4.5.6.biceps · triceps · hearttummy muscles · thigh · calfPull partnersMuscles work in pairs. Join each one to its partner.bicepsfront of my arm: it bendsthigh (front)quadriceps: straightens my kneehamstringsback of my thigh: bends my kneetricepsback of my arm: it straightensMy musclesMake a muscle! Draw your arm here.Hand on your chest. Count your heartbeats:sitting stillbeatsafter moving aboutbeats
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The Snap-Trap Club

A 3D tour of your germs

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Sneeze into your elbow, like the child in the tour. Why the elbow?

On the projector

Step through with Next, and after the hand-washing chapter count to 20 together.

Open it with /germs/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Glitter germs: put a pinch of glitter on hands, shake hands around a circle, then wash it off.

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The Snap-Trap Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each germ-fighter's name by its number (or say them, and you write). Next, number the hand-washing pictures in the right order: wet, soap, scrub for 20 seconds, rinse and dry. Last, keep the germ-fighting week on the fridge and tick a box each time: washing hands, sneezing into an elbow, a good sleep, and moving and playing in any way you like. It's not a test, and every tick counts.

123451.2.3.4.5.skin · nose · spleenlymph nodes · bone marrowWash your handsNumber the pictures 1 to 5, in the right order.20Wet · soap · scrub for 20 seconds · rinse · dryMy germ-fighting weekTick a box each time!MTWTFSSwashed handssneezed in elbowa good sleepmoved and played
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The Itty-Bitty Club

A 3D tour of your cells

Warm-up, 5 minutes

Everything alive is made of tiny cells. Look at your hand: can you see any? (No, they're too small!)

On the projector

Stop after each part of the cell and ask what its job is, using the tour's names.

Open it with /cells/?projector: the class plays together, you press Next after each win, and nothing is saved.

Away from the screen

Build a cell: groups arrange play-dough parts on a paper plate and label each job.

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The Itty-Bitty Club

Name: ______________________

For the grown-up: Read the words in the box together, then write each part's name by its number (or say them, and you write). Next, join each part to its job: the nucleus is the command centre, a mitochondrion the powerhouse, a ribosome the builder, the Golgi the post office, the membrane the gatekeeper and a lysosome the recycler. Last, tick which cell has a cell wall, chloroplasts and a big vacuole (only the leaf cell does), then draw a cell of your own, with any parts you like.

123451.2.3.4.5.nucleus · membrane · Golgimitochondrion · ribosomeMatch the jobDraw a line from each part to its job.nucleusbuildermitochondriongatekeeperribosomecommand centreGolgirecyclermembranepowerhouselysosomepost officeAnimal or plant?Tick which cell has each one.your cellleaf cella cell wallchloroplastsa big vacuoleDraw your own cell!
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