Virtual Body Website

As another objective for my students, I would like them to learn the various parts and functions of the body, and how it pertains to their health. I found a website that is called the Virtual Body website. There are many different areas of the body that you can look at. Some of these areas include Brain, Heart, Digestive track, and the Skeletal System. In each of these areas, there are opportunities to receive instruction, to explore, and also a game at the end that could act as an assessment of what the child has learned.
The first segment is almost like a narrative or a lecture. It could be boring for some students, but it could also be very interesting for others. This provides background for the students so that they can explore for themselves as they “Zoom-In” to the parts that make up each of these systems or organs. The final component is a game that they can play where they arrange the parts of the body to create the body system. This provides an opportunity for them to show what they have learned as they have explored this website.
I feel that some of the pros of this website are that it allows students to students to learn on their own terms, at their own rate as they learn the different parts of the body. The narrative seems a bit advanced and boring, but it still provides the students with good information that they can use for a foundation as they learn more about the human body.
It would be neat to integrate power point into the objective of learning the different parts of the body. The students could do their own presentation of the human body and its various parts and functions. This would be a great activity to give the students an opportunity to “create” as we learned in the video we watched this week.

You can view this website at the following URL:

www.metropolis.com/VBody.asp