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Human Body Interactive Games

There's no better way to learn something new than to do it while playing a game. And learning about the body is no exception. From learning how the heart works to memorizing names of leg bones or human organs, games are effective as well as fun. Many websites have interactive games to play on line, but there are also games that students can play in the real world.

Circulation Game
- The game organizer needs to draw a very large heart and lung model using sheets of butcher paper taped together, with segments of veins and arteries going off to the arms, legs, brain, stomach and more. The organizer also needs to make paper circles representing white and red blood cells. Players act as circulating blood and walk the paths of veins and arteries giving up the red oxygen cells at certain designated spots and picking up white cells filled with carbon dioxide after leaving the spot. When players enter the lung portion of the diagram, they drop off the white blood cells in a pile, pick up a red blood cell and go off again through the heart to another part of the body.
Flash Cards
- Tried and true, flash cards can make any subject fun. The first step for the students is making sets of flash cards in bright colors, with pictures or designs as they please, according to whatever lesson about the human body they are trying to learn. Students can then be paired in twosomes or in larger groups to see how quickly they can learn first five new facts or words, then 10 new terms, then as many as they can.
Jeopardy
- The game organizer needs to create a Jeopardy game board with answers in columns based on the categories that students need to learn. For a unit on Healthy Food for instance, the game board would have columns such as Vegetables, High-Fat Foods or Whole Grains. Hidden in squares under each column is an answer to a question that the teacher will ask. To play, the teacher reads prepared "answers" such as "This green leafy vegetable was Popeye's favorite." Students will take turns seeing if they provide the correct question---in this case "What is spinach"---and will get a point for each correct response.
Human Organ Freeze Tag
- In a normal game of Freeze Tag, the player who is "it" freezes a player by simply tagging her. In Human Organ Freeze Tag, "it" needs to also name an organ of the human body, such as "Skin," Lungs" or "Heart," while tagging the player. In order to unfreeze a player, the other players also need to name an organ. This game can be played with any other human body lesson, such as naming systems (circulation, respiratory, digestive), specific bones or healthy food choices.

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