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Alex: "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" Lesson PlanAlex: "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" Lesson Plan
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Alabama Learning Exchange
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Alex: "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"

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Students will have the opportunity to learn names of many parts of the human body and how they help the body function healthy. Students will put a skeleton together to create a full human body.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science University, GEMS-U Project.

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body parts, healthy habits

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human body, 1.1.1 identify and describe the function of body parts, alex, alabama learning exchange: "head, shoulders, knees and toes", gems project, human body reference resources

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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