Judy and I have been team teaching a unit on the Human Body to our classes. The combining of our classes and the combining of our minds has led to some positive results. A reminder that we are often better when we work together.
We have broken the unit into mini units by the body systems we are learning about. To launch the Muscles, Bones, and Skin mini unit we hosted a chicken dissection. The idea came to us in one of our late afternoon planning sessions. We'd pick up a roasted chicken and "dissect" it in front of the classes. The chicken clearly demonstrated all the key learning of the unit and more. Seeing first hand the skin, muscles, bones, cartilage, ligaments, spinal cord, etc made the learning authentic, energized and I think lasting. This lesson went better than my best hopes. Of course at the end we didn't want to waste our chicken so after thanking it for its' very considerate sacrifice for the benefit of our learning we shared a delicious protein snack!
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