Exploring the Human Body: A Guide to Our 4 Anatomy Units for Your Homeschool
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Human Body Nature Studies: Organs, Bones, Muscles & Senses!
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Welcome to an exciting journey through the human body! If you are looking for an engaging, family-style science curriculum, For the Love of Homeschooling offers four incredible 20-day Nature Study units covering the body's most vital networks.
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Designed for the whole family, each study includes four age-level workbooks (ranging from Little Explorers ages 3–5 up to Expert Explorers 12+). These units go far beyond a textbook, combining daily readings with hands-on STEM challenges, group art, poetry teatime, gameschooling, and creative final projects.
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Take a detailed yet approachable look inside the body to explore the remarkable organs that keep us working every day. This unit helps children understand how individual organs function and how they team up to form larger, interconnected networks.
What You Will Learn: We dive deep into the lungs, stomach, small intestine, liver, pancreas, kidneys, bladder, and skin, covering the respiratory, digestive, urinary, and integumentary systems.
Real-World Medical Science: Students learn about nutrient absorption, waste removal, and homeostasis. We also discuss what happens when organs fail, the medical interventions that support or replace function, and the diagnostic tools healthcare professionals use.
Hands-On Highlights: Assemble a full-size organ model, enjoy anatomy flashcards, and spend days 16–20 working on a creative final student presentation.
Explore the bones, joints, cartilage, teeth, and tissues that provide our structural foundation. Perfect as a seasonal October study or a year-round anatomy unit, this curriculum brings current medical knowledge to life.
What You Will Learn: Discover the major purposes of the skeleton, compact versus spongy bone, bone marrow, bone cells, ligaments, and tendons. We even compare human skeletons to animal endoskeletons, exoskeletons, and hydrostatic skeletons!
Real-World Medical Science: Students investigate X-rays, CT scans, MRI, and DXA scans. The readings cover the stages of fracture healing and conditions like osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, scoliosis, and osteogenesis imperfecta.
Hands-On Highlights: Build and label an original paper skeleton hand-painted by watercolor artist Bonnie Hunt, bake bone-themed recipes, and explore what bones can reveal about people from the past.
If bones are the scaffolding, muscles are the engine! This unit is packed with movement and science to teach children about the power and structure of the human muscular system.
What You Will Learn: We cover the three main muscle types (skeletal, smooth, and cardiac), major muscle groups, facial expressions, and how muscles help maintain balance and posture.
Health & Fitness: Learn the science of how muscles grow stronger (hypertrophy), how they get energy (aerobic vs. anaerobic energy and ATP), and what causes muscle fatigue, injuries, and repair.
Hands-On Highlights: Conduct the "Muscles to the Max" STEM lab, create foil pose sculptures, compare human and animal musculature, and enjoy protein-packed recipes while reading excerpts from Walt Whitman’s The Body Electric.
Delve into the intricate web that connects our body to the world around us. This study provides a comprehensive exploration of the body's ultimate command center and how our senses work in perfect harmony.
What You Will Learn: Journey through the central and peripheral nervous systems (including autonomic vs. somatic systems), the spinal cord, brain lobes, the cerebral cortex, and the mechanics of neurons and interneurons.
The Five Senses: Each sense gets a dedicated day. Discover the mechanics of ocular nerves, the role of mucus and cilia in the nose, the tongue's taste buds and airway connections, and how the ear self-protects.
Hands-On Highlights: Build a working model of the ear, construct a spinal cord model, and create a 2D paper model of the skull and brain lobes. Students will also paint with coffee and tea, and tackle the "Protect the Brain" STEM challenge by designing a safety helmet for "Egghead."
Bring Anatomy to Life for the Whole Family
Each of these four units is meticulously crafted to ensure that learners of all ages—from preschoolers tracing shapes to middle schoolers analyzing scientific data—can learn together. With 15 days of scripted lessons and 5 days dedicated to unique final projects, your family will finish each month with a deep appreciation for the incredible human body.
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