Circulatory System Respiratory System
- Scenario: You’re running to catch a - Scenario: You’re taking deep
bus. As you sprint, you can feel your breaths after a long hike up a hill. Your
heart beating faster. lungs are working harder than usual.
- Questions: - Questions:
1. What role does the circulatory 1. How is the respiratory system
system play while you’re running? helping your body recover after
- Hint: Think about how your body exercise?
needs more oxygen and nutrients when - Hint: Think about how breathing
it’s working hard. brings something essential to your
2. What would happen if your cells.
circulatory system couldn’t keep up 2. What organs are involved, and
with your needs in this situation? what happens if they don’t function
- Hint: Consider how you might feel if properly?
oxygen or nutrients aren’t delivered - Hint: Consider how well your
quickly enough. body would function without enough
air.
Digestive System Nervous System
- Scenario: You just ate a large meal, - Scenario: You’re watching a movie
and now you feel full and a bit sleepy. and get startled by a loud sound.
- Questions: - Guiding Questions:
1. What is the digestive system - How does your nervous system
doing with the food you just ate? help you react to the sudden noise?
- Hint: Think about how food is - Hint: Think about how messages
turned into nutrients and energy. travel in your body.
2. Which organs are working to - What would happen if these
break down and absorb this food? signals didn’t reach your brain quickly?
- Hint: Consider where food goes
from start to finish in the body.
Skeletal System Endocrine System
- Scenario: You trip while walking but - Scenario: You feel nervous before a
manage to stop yourself from falling school presentation, with your heart
completely. racing.
- Guiding Questions: - Guiding Questions:
- How does your skeleton protect - How does the endocrine system
you from injury here? affect your body during stressful
- Hint: Think about how bones moments?
provide structure and absorb impact. - Hint: Think about how hormones
- What might happen if bones like adrenaline affect your body.
weren’t strong enough? - What would happen if your body
couldn’t produce these hormones?
Muscular System Immune System
- Scenario: You’re helping to move - Scenario: You have a small cut on
furniture. After a while, your arms feel your hand and notice it’s a bit red and
sore and tired. swollen.
- Questions: - Guiding Questions:
1. How does the muscular system - How does your immune system
enable you to lift and move heavy help your body respond to this cut?
items? - Hint: Think about how your body
- Hint: Think about how muscles defends itself against bacteria or
work together with bones to create viruses.
movement. - What might happen if your
2. What would happen if your immune system didn’t react properly?
muscles couldn’t generate enough
force?
- Hint: Consider the role of
strength and endurance in your
muscles.
Urinary System Reproductive System
- Scenario: You’ve been drinking a lot of - Scenario: Imagine a couple is
water on a hot day, and now you need to go planning to have a child. The
to the restroom. reproductive system plays a critical
role here.
- Questions: - Questions:
How does the urinary system help your 1. How does the reproductive
body maintain balance? - Hint: Think about system help bring new life into the
how the body removes waste and controls world?
fluid levels - Hint: Think about how certain
What would happen if the urinary system organs and cells are involved in
couldn’t remove waste properly?- Hint: reproduction.
Consider what might build up in the body if it 2. Why is this system essential for
couldn’t get rid of waste. the survival of the species?
- Hint: Consider the role of
reproduction in continuing human life.
