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Human systems

NIVEL LINGSTICO
SEGN MCER

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IDIOMA

Ingls

REA / MATERIA

Conocimiento del Medio Natural, Social y Cultural

NCLEO TEMTICO

Aspectos bsicos sobre los diferentes aparatos del ser humano, los rganos
que los componen y cmo funcionan.

GUIN TEMTICO

Secuencia didctica que describe los diferentes aparatos que conforman el ser
humano, destacando el aparato digestivo, respiratorio, circulatorio, reproductor
y digestivo, as como sus rganos y las funciones y procesos que desarrollan
en el ser humano.

FORMATO

PDF

CORRESPONDENCIA
CURRICULAR

4 de Educacin Primaria

AUTORA

Miguel ngel Cabo Snchez.

TEMPORALIZACIN
APROXIMADA

7-8 sesiones

COMPETENCIAS
BSICAS

- Aprender a aprender: los alumnos/as trabajan de forma autnoma en mltiples de las actividades a lo largo de la unidad.
- Competencia lingstica: los alumnos/as interactan de forma oral y escrita
en diversidad de actividades. Se integran todas las destrezas en las diferentes
actividades. Tambin se presenta el proyecto de forma oral.
- Competencia en el conocimiento e interaccin con el mundo fsico: los alumnos/as conocen y descubren su cuerpo y funcionamiento de este.
- Competencia digital y tratamiento de la informacin: los alumnos/as hacen
uso de las TIC para ampliar informacin en torno al ser humano y sus caractersticas.
- Competencia cultural y artstica: los alumnos/as realizan un proyecto sobre
un aparato humano usando diferentes materiales de reciclado u otros. Fomento de la creatividad.
- Autonoma e iniciativa personal: los alumnos/as investigan y eligen el aparato
que desean para llevar a cabo su proyecto.

OBSERVACIONES

Todas las imgenes se encuentran bajo la licencia Creative Commons

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OBJETIVOS

1. Conocer las principales caractersticas y rganos de los diferentes aparatos del

ser humano
2. Diferenciar los aparatos del cuerpo humano (digestivo, respiratorio, circulatorio,
excretor y reproductor) y conocer cmo funcionan
3. Relacionar los aparatos del cuerpo humano con el desarrollo de las funciones
vitales
4. Valorar la importancia de cuidar nuestro cuerpo y llevar una vida saludable

CONTENIDOS
DE
CURSO / CICLO

- Los aparatos del cuerpo humano

- El aparato digestivo: caractersticas, rganos y funciones
- El aparato respiratorio: caractersticas, rganos y funciones
- El aparato circulatorio: caractersticas, rganos y funciones
- El aparato excretor: caractersticas, rganos y funciones
- El aparato reproductor: caractersticas, rganos y funciones
- Cuidado y mantenimiento de nuestros aparatos, para tener una buena salud

TEMA

El ser humano y los diferentes aparatos que lo conforman

MODELOS
DISCURSIVOS

- Clasificar los aparatos del ser humano

- Describir las funciones de los diferentes aparatos y su importancia
- Diferenciar los rganos de los distintos aparatos
- Enumerar acciones de vida saludable

TAREAS

- Localizacin de diferentes rganos en distintos diagramas de los aparatos del ser

humano
- Conceptualizacin a travs de la lectura y comprensin de oraciones
- Escucha activa en la composicin de textos escritos
- Clasificacin y discriminacin de los rganos en los diferentes aparatos
- Escritura de textos a travs de imgenes

CONTENIDOS
LINGSTICOS

FUNCIONES:
- Comparar y clasificar atendiendo
a diferentes caractersticas
- Describir fases de un proceso
- Definir funciones
- Dar razones para convencer a
alguien sobre la importancia de algo

ESTRUCTURAS:
- Digestion is the process The most
important are
- Food enters.. The urine goes to the
bladder
- The food is divided It is composed
of
- Do exercise, brush your teeth

LXICO:
Digestive, circulatory, respiratory, excretory and reproductive system; organs: heart,
stomach, intestine, vessels, arteries, do exercise, brush

CRITERIOS DE
EVALUACIN

- Conoce las caractersticas de cada aparato y los rganos que lo componen

- Distingue entre los diferentes aparatos del ser humano y sabe cmo funcionan
- Relaciona los aparatos y las funciones vitales del ser humano
- Conoce y valora las diferentes acciones a adoptar para llevar una vida saludable y
cuidar de su cuerpo

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1.- Have a look at these words and predict what it is the unit about.
MAIN LANGUAGE
digestive faeces blood ovaries
circulatory
expel (verb)
heart
uterus

excretory
mix (verb)
blood vessels
vagina
reproduction
oxygen
arteries
testes
respiratory
breathe
capillaries
penis
digestion
carbon dioxide
veins
prostate
esophagus trachea waste breasts
stomach
bronchial tubes kidneys softer
voice
small intestine
lungs
bladder
wide hips
large intestine
inhalation
urethra brush
your teeth
anus expiration urine do exercise
What are you going to study?
2.- Find the words. You can use your dictionary or a computer.

1. SYSTEMS OF THE BODY

The systems of the body enable us to perform vital functions. We use
the systems of the body in order to process substances from our environment
as either nutritional or waste products. Our bodies are nutritious if we eat
healthy and have a balanced and complete diet.
The five body systems are the:
1. Digestive System.
2. Circulatory System
3. Respiratory system.
4. Excretory System.
5. Reproduction System

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 The body systems enable us to perform vital functions.

There are five body systems: the Digestive System, Circulatory System,
Respiratory System, Excretory System and Reproduction System.
1.1. DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
Human beings need energy to live. We
eat food to get energy. When we eat,
our body digests the food and produces
energy. Digestion is the process by
which food substances are changed
into nutritional substances that our
body needs.
Living things eat food in order to get
energy. Our body digests the food.

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1.1.1 Organs of the Digestive System

The digestive system is made up of six organs, they are the:
1. Mouth: food enters our body through our mouth.
2. Oesophagus: a long tube between our mouth and the
stomach.
3. Stomach: it is like a bag and it secretes gastric juice, the
stomach receives food from the oesophagus and mixes it
with this gastric juice.
4. Intestine: a long tube. It is composed of two parts:
- Small intestine: it is about seven metres long. The small
intestine absorbs the nutritional substances.
- Large intestine: it is about one metre and a half long. It
takes the bad substances from our body.
5. Anus: it is at the end of the large intestine. Faeces are
eliminated through the anus.

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1.1.2 Stages of digestion

1.Digestion begins in the mouth. Our teeth cut and
chew the food. Our tongue mixes the food with saliva.
2.Then the food goes down the oesophagus and goes
into the stomach.
3.In the stomach, the food is mixed with a liquid
(gastric juice).
4.In the small intestine, the food is divided into
nutritional substances that our body needs.
5.The parts of food that we do not need go into the
large intestine. They are transformed into faeces
and they are expelled through the anus.
After eating, we must wait two hours before doing
physical activities. Our digestion takes time!

When we eat we do the

digestion process. It
takes about 2 hours!

Digestion is the process by which food substances are changed into

nutritional substances that our body needs.
The most important organs are: mouth, oesophagus, stomach, intestine
(small and large intestine) and anus.
The digestion process has different stages from the mouth to the anus. It
takes about 2 hours!

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ACTIVITIES
3.- Label the parts of the digestive system.

4.- Read and write.

a) Food circulates through this from the mouth to the stomach.
_____________
b) Our teeth are in this. _____________
c) In this part the food is mixed with a liquid called gastric juice.
____________
d) Faeces are expelled through this. _____________
e) The food is divided into nutritional substances that our body needs.
___________

1.2. RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

All living things need oxygen to live, without oxygen we cannot survive
more than few minutes. Thanks to our Respiratory System we get
oxygen from the air. When we breathe, our body takes oxygen that
we need to live and eliminates carbon dioxide that we dont need.
The Respiratory System is the system that takes oxygen (essential
for our lives) and eliminates carbon dioxide (we dont need it).

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1.2.1. Organs of the Respiratory System

The Respiratory System is composed of: nose, nostrils, trachea, bronchial
tube and lungs (right and left).
Air enters our body through our nose and mouth. It goes through the
nostrils. It goes down through the trachea and bronchial tubes and into the
lungs. Finally, oxygen goes into our blood.

1.2.2. Breathing
There are two movements that go along with breathing:
1. Inhalation: our lungs fill with air, we take oxygen from the atmosphere.
2. Exhaling: air leaves our lungs, giving off carbon dioxide.

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 The Respiratory System is the system that takes oxygen (necessary in

our lives) and eliminates carbon dioxide (we do not need it).
The Respiratory System organs are: nostrils, mouth, trachea, bronchial
tubes and lungs.
There are two movements when we breathe: inspiration and expiration.
5.- Label the parts of the Respiratory System.

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 How does our Respiratory System work? Explain the process.

_______________________________________________________
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6.- Read and match.
It is the gas that we breathe
There are two in our body
The process through which our
lungs fill with air
When air leaves our lungs
A gas that we eliminate from our
body

Carbon dioxide
Expiration
Oxygen
Lungs
Inhalation

7.- Write. Listen and check.

Air enters our body through our and mouth. It through the
nostrils. It goes down through the and after goes to the and
into the . Finally, oxygen goes to our. When we breathe, we
can differentiate two : inhalation, our lungs with air, we
take oxygen from the
atmosphere and , air leaves our lungs, giving off carbon dioxide.

8.- Look and write.

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1.3.CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
Blood is a very important red liquid in our body, it is
red and carries oxygen and nutrients to different
parts of our body.
Blood goes around our body, this is called circulation.
The Circulatory System is responsible for blood
circulation.

The main organ of this system is our heart,

the Heart is an involuntary muscle. It pumps
blood around our body and it is between our two lungs.
Blood circulate around our body inside what are
called blood vessels. There are three types of blood
vessels: arteries, veins and capillaries.
Arteries: they take the blood from our heart to
the rest of our body.
Veins: take the blood from our body back to the
heart.
Capillaries: connect the veins and arteries.

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heart

arteries (red)

veins (blue)

Blood carries oxygen and nutrients to different parts of our body.

The Circulatory System is responsible for blood circulation.
The Circulatory System organs are: heart and blood vessels (arteries,
veins and capillaries).

ACTIVITIES

9.- Complete this outline.

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10.- Answer these questions.

a) What does blood carry? __________________________________ .
b) What is circulation? ____________________________________
_____________________________________________________ .
c) What is the main organ in the Circulatory System?______________ .
d) What is the function of the heart? __________________________
_____________________________________________________ .
e) Where is our heart? ____________________________________ .
f) What bones protect our heart? ____________________________ .
g) What are the three types of blood vessels?___________________ .
h) What is the function of our arteries? ________________________
_____________________________________________________ .
11.- Find the circulatory organs.

1.4. EXCRETORY SYSTEM

Excretion is the process through which we clean our blood and
eliminate waste from our body.
The organs are the kidneys, the bladder, and the urethra.
The kidneys clean our blood and make the urine. The urine now goes to the
bladder, where it is stored and is later expelled from the urethra.

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1.5. REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

All living things can reproduce. Reproduction is the process
through which living things produce other living things with
similar characteristics.
The Reproductive System is a set of organs which allow us
to reproduce. Men and women have different reproductive
organs. The female reproductive system is made up of: ovaries,
uterus, and vagina. The male reproductive system is made up
of: penis, testes, and prostate.

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1.5.1. Differences between men and women

Other differences between sexes:
WOMEN
Women also have breasts, a softer voice,
less hair, and wider hips than men.
MEN
Men have a stronger voice, more hair, and
a wider chest than women.

Members of a family have

similar characteristics

Excretion is the process through which we clean our blood and eliminate
waste from our body.
The organs of our Excretory System are: the kidneys, bladder and urethra.
Reproduction is the process through which living things produce other
living things with similar characteristics.
The female reproductive system is composed of these organs: ovaries,
uterus, and vagina. The male reproductive system is composed of these
organs: penis, testes, and prostate.

ACTIVITIES
12.- Label, write and colour.

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13.- Find reproductive organs.

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14.- Listen and tick the correct answer. What is it?
a) Kidneys
b) Excretion
c) Men
d) Bladder
e) Penis
f) Urine

Ovaries
Reproduction
Women
Teste
Vagina
Uterus

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ACTIVITIES
15.- Complete.

16.- Classify these organs.

oesophagus, penis, veins, stomach anus, kidneys, uterus, testes, trachea,

prostate, capillaries, heart, mouth, bladder, arteries, nostrils, intestine,
bronchial tubes, lungs, ovaries, vagina

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17.- Listen and number the digestive process.

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intestine.
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stomach.
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liquid (gastric juice).
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substances that our body needs.
Our tongue mixes the food with saliva.
18.- Solve this crossword puzzle.

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19.- Order the sentences. How do you digest a pear?

The parts of the pear that my body does not need go to large intestine.
Then the food goes into the small intestine.
The pear, mixed with saliva, goes down the oesophagus.
I chew the pear in my mouth.
At last, the faeces are expelled through the anus.
In my stomach, the pear is mixed with gastric juice.
20.- Match.
1. Faeces are expelled. a) digestion
2. A long tube composed of two parts.
b) arteries
3. It takes about two hours.
c) oxygen
4. A gas that we need to live.
d) kidneys
5. They take the blood from our heart
e) penis
f) anus
to the rest of our body.
6. They clean our blood and make the
g) bladder
urine. h) intestine
7. Where the urine is stored.
8. An organ of the male reproductive
system.
21.- Find the digestive organs.
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22.- How can you take care of your systems? Look at the pictures
and write.

______________________________________

______________________________________

______________________________________

______________________________________

______________________________________

23.- Read and tick the correct answer.

a) The process by which food substances are changed into nutritional

substances is
circulation digestion
b) The movements of breathing are
inhalation and exhaling exhaling and excretion
c) Digestion begins in the
heart mouth
d) Kidneys are organs of the
Reproduction System Excretory System
e) The main organ in the Circulatory System is our
arteries heart

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24.- Play BINGO!! Stick 3, listen to the teacher and complete the
chart.

25.- Think of an organ, dont tell anyone what it is. Take turns and
ask questions with a partner. Try to guess his/her organ. Look
at the example.

- Is it in the circulatory
system?
- No it isnt.
- Is it in the digestive
system?
- Yes, it is.
- Is it a long tube?
-No, it isnt
- Does it receive food and
secret gastric juice?
- Yes, it does.
- Is the stomach?
- Yes, it is!
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26.- Sing this song.

Human systems
(Clementine song tune)

There are five systems,

There are five systems,
There are five systems,
in the human being,
reproduction, circulatory, respiratory
excretory and digestive.

27.- Make a project.

1. Choose a body system and draw it on poster board.

2. Use different recycling materials to make the organs.
3. Label and write its parts.
4. Decorate it.
5. Tell your classmates about it.
28.- What can you do? Cross X.

Hello!! My friends!!
Read and tick.

SELF-ASSESSMENT
Read and write a cross
I can recognize words and expressions related to
the different systems in the Human Being
I can read information about our five systems
and understand the most important information
I can speak about the different systems
and how to take care of them
I can talk to my classmates about
the different systems
I can write and make projects
about our systems

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