Show Me the Muscle!
Directions:
1. Listen to the leader read the task sheet.
2. Read through the list of questions to be answered
on the “Show Me the Muscle” worksheet as a
collaborative group.
3. Go to the links under Prosthetics & Prototypes on
Mrs. Spear’s website.
4. Use the links under each web resource to answer
the questions on your worksheet.
5. When the group is done, compare your answers.
6. Turn your work into the rotation basket when
done.
Extension: Visit the other links under Prosthetics &
Prototypes to learn more!
Materials
Computer
Pencil
Show Me the Muscle worksheet
PBL Connection: Prosthetics & Prototypes
Standards
Indiana Academic Standard for Science-2010
Core Standard:
Design a prototype that replaces a function of a human body part.
5.4.1 Investigate technologies that mimic human or animal musculoskeletal systems in order to meet
a need.
6.4.11 2000 Describe that human beings have body systems for obtaining and providing energy,
defense, reproduction and the coordination of body functions.
NOISE LEVEL 1
PASSPORT TO READING
How far have you traveled?
Materials
Noise Level 0
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Passport to Reading
Pencil
Computer
Book to read
Directions:
Listen to the leader read the task sheet.
Review your passport and fill in the book information for each
genre you completed during this school year to date.
Review the project choices and the rubrics for each project for the
Passport on my website link “Passport to Reading.”
Choose a project from my webpage to complete for a book you
read this year. Choose a product you have not done yet.
You can use this time to work on your project, or read your book
quietly to prepare for a project.
Clean your table and return materials to the container at the end
of the rotation.
Standards:
5.3.2
Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate
Literary Text:
Identify the main problem or conflict of
the plot and explain how it is resolved.
5.3.3
Contrast the actions, motives, and
appearances of characters in a work of
fiction and discuss the importance of
the contrasts to the plot or theme.
5.3.1
Identify and analyze the characteristics
of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction
and explain the appropriateness of the
literary forms chosen by an author for a
specific purpose.
PBL Connection:
Passport to Reading
“Show Me the Muscle” Web Search
Student ______________________________ Date _____________
Directions: Use these Web sites to answer the questions listed below each site.
(ALL of the website links are located on Mrs. Spear’s webpage under “Prosthetics
and Prototypes.”
KID’S HEALTH
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/muscles_SW.html
•Search and discover:
•How many muscles does the human body have?
•What are the three types of muscles?
•Name 3 places in the body where you would find smooth muscle.
•Is the heart a muscle? If so, what is it called?
BRAINPOP
http://www.brainpop.com
•Log in using: username: lincolnbp
•Click on Health
•Chose Body Systems
•Choose “Muscles”
password: brainpop
What’s your Angle
MA.5.4.1 2000
Measure, identify, and draw angles,
perpendicular and parallel lines, rectangles,
triangles and circles by using appropriate
tools
Noise Level 1
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2.
3.
Listen to leader read directions for task.
Lay pictures out on the table.
With a partner, look at each picture and measure the
angle of the designated limb.
4. You might need to reenact some of the angles to get a
better measurement.
5. Fill out the Angles Report and turn into proper bin.
6. Clean up area and return station items to proper
location.
Extension Activity: Think of other angles you might use
doing sports and add to the bottom of the Angles Report.
Project Connection
Columbus Prosthetics
connection
Materials Needed
Sports Pictures
Angles Report
Protractor
Pencil
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Sport
Action
Degree
Angle Type
Names: _________________ __________________
Angles Report
1.
2.
Angle of Left Knee
Angle of Right Arm
3. Angle of Right Knee
4. Angle of Right Wrist
5. Angle of Throwing Arm’s Elbow
6. Angle of Kicking Leg’s Knee
7. Angle of # 2’s Right Knee
6. Angle of Hips after Brady threw
an Intercepting
9. Angle of Right Elbow
10. Angle of Right Knee
11. Angle of Left Elbow
12. Angle it Takes to Hug Someone
13. Angle of First Runners Right Knee
14. Angle of Second Runners Left Elbow
15. Angle of Right Knee
16. Angle it Takes to Cradle a Football
17. Angle of Right Arm of Tennis Player in Pink
18. Angle of other Tennis Players Left Leg
19. Angle of Left Knee
20. Angle of both Knees
INTERACTIVE
SCIENCE
Noise Level 1-2
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2.
3.
4.
Listen to manager read this task
list.
In your Science book go page 54.
As a group, read 54 -59.
Now, each student needs to
answer questions 1 -6.
Extension Activity: Go to
myscienceonline.com and explore this
website. Tr y to discover y new information
we could use for this project.
Project Connection
Columbus Prosthetics
connection
Material Needs
Science Text
Pencil
Laptop for extension
SCI.5.4.1 2010
Investigate technologies
that mimic human or
animal musculoskeletal
systems in order to meet a
need.
SCI.5.4.2 2010
Investigate the purpose of
prototypes and models
when designing a solution
to a problem and how
limitations in cost and
design features might
affect their construction.
Acuity
Noise Level 0
Standards
individualized per
student
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2.
3.
Listen to manager read this task sheet.
Log on to Acuity.
Click on study and practice working on needed
skills.
4. Continue until you have completed all assigned
work.
Extension Activity: If you complete all assignments
you may work on other assignments such as Passport
to Reading or Treasures Genre Story.
Materials needed
Laptop
No Project
Connection
Noise Level 1
Standards
5.3.2
Write simple algebraic expressions in
one or two variables and evaluate them
by substitution.
5.3.4
Identify and graph ordered pairs of
positive numbers.
Directions:
1. Listen to the leader read the task sheet.
2. Read the directions to play the Algebraic Equations
Game using the instruction sheet.
3. Record your answers on your worksheet for each
card you draw.
4. Plot your coordinates on the large group coordinate
graph when you have completed a game sheet.
5. Turn your Algebraic Equation Score Sheet into the
rotation basket when you are done.
Extension Activity: Visit this link on Mrs. Spear’s
website under Linear Equations. If you REALLY
want a challenge, visit the other links on the same
page.
http://www.math-play.com/Algebra-Math-Games.html
Materials
Algebraic Equations Card Game Instructions
Algebraic Equation Score Sheet
Coordinate Graph
Pencil
y = 5x + 3 - 2
y = 6(x + 1) – 10
y = x/2 + 5
y = 10 + 2(x – x) + 4
15 – x + (3 * 1) = y
10 + 1 – (4* x) = y
(4 + x) – (4 + x) = y
8*2+x–5=y
y = (2*x) – (1*x)
2
y=x
y = 3x
y=x+x-4
2
y = x – (3*x)
y = 10 – x + 2x
y = x*x
2
y=4+x–1
(3 + x) * (x – 5) = y
2
x+1=y
2
(x + 1) – (3*7) = y
2(x) + -5 = y
(5 + x) * (8 – x) = y
3x – (4*5) = y
3
2
5 -x +0=y
10 – x + (3*2)- x = y
Algebraic Equations
Name _____________________
Directions:
1. Draw an equation card from the pile.
2. Draw a number card.
2. Substitute the number card for the x in the equation.
3. Write your equation with the value for x under the equation column.
4. Solve for y.
5. Then plot the coordinates on the coordinate graph.
Algebraic equation: _____________________
X = _________
Equation
X
y
Work space.
Algebraic Equations Card Game
Materials:
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Pencil
Deck of cards (ace =1 thru 5)
Algebraic Equations Cards
Algebraic Equations Worksheet
Coordinate Graph Worksheet
Directions:
1. Place the card deck & the algebraic equation cards upside
down.
2. Draw a card from the card deck. This card represents the “x.”
3. Draw an algebraic equation card.
4. Solve for the equation using the number card you drew for “x.”
5. Write your solutions on the table on your worksheet.
6. Plot your coordinates on the coordinate graph.
7. Staple the coordinate plane to your Algebraic Equation
worksheet.
8. Play as many rounds as you can until the rotation ends. You will
need a new sheet for each round.
Y=X+5
X*3+5=Y
X + 10 – 2 * 1 = Y Y = 7 - X
X+5–3=Y
12 – X = Y
2+X–2=Y
Y=2*X
X *3+4=Y
X+3–2=Y
5 – X = Y 16 - (2 * X) – 4 = Y
Y=2*X+1 3–X+X=Y
Y=6–X+4
Y=8–X+3
(3 * X) +2 – 1 = Y 12- X = Y
8 - X = Y 10 - (2 * X) + 3 = Y
Y=3*X-1
5–X+X=Y
Y=4+X+2
Y = 10 - X - 3
(4 * X) – 4 = Y 7 – X + 3 = Y