Homeschool Bodies: Nerves

After learning about the brains, we moved onto the peripheral part of our nervous system. In the pic above, the kids are adding nerves to the spinal chord. In the pic below, the kids are playing "Nervous Nellie" - where they draw a card with a picture on it, then act as the nerves by sending the message to the different body parts. For example, if the picture was of a flower, the nerves would notify the eyes to see it, the hand to touch it, the nose to smell it, etc.

Then we made our own neurons out of pipecleaners, and labeled them.
We even created a nerve by linking all the neurons together in one long chain.