Body Builders
Division:A – Elementary
NC Essential Standards Alignment:3.L.1, 5.L.1
Event Rules and Score Sheets: See 2023 Division A Rule Manual
Clarifications: None
Description:
This event is usually run as a stationed event, but can also be given as a sit-down test. Team members will be asked to answer questions relating to the skeletal and muscular systems of the human body.
Materials:
Teams MUST bring a writing instrument. No other resources are allowed.
Scoring:
None
Common Mistakes:
None
Recommendations:
None
Fast Facts:
None
Coaches Institute Resources:
How Stuff Works – Muscular and Skeletal (2011 rules) *typo in this handout – Ligaments connect bone to bone, not muscle to muscle*
Janice VanCleave’s The Human Body for Every Kid (2010 rules)
Kids Heath – Your Muscles (includes pasta vertebrae activity similar to 2013 Coaches Institute presentation)
Event Resources:
How Stuff Works – Muscular and Skeletal
Janice VanCleave’s The Human Body for Every Kid
Kids Heath – Your Muscles
Brain Pop Jr. – Bones
Inner Body – Interactive body systems diagrams
BBC Science: Human Body and Mind – Muscle and Skeleton Games
Some great activities for learning about muscles and bones (we really like putting masking tape labels on real people!)
Here are 2 coloring books that you might want to purchase:
A very detailed one
A little more simplified one
Media:
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