Grade 3 Challenge:

Welcome future doctors! Congratulations, you have all been accepted into the 3^rd grade school of Medicine. You have been selected among all the third graders in the country as the most knowledgeable and with the most potential as a class. That is why we have chosen YOU and your classmates to get started early on becoming a doctor!

Let’s start at the beginning, before you can start operating you need to learn the basic parts of the body, and what they do. Complete the webquest and fill out you crossword puzzle. Return it to me in the operating room (your classroom).  Good Luck on the first step to becoming a Doctor! And welcome again to the National 3^rd Grade School of Medicine!

Print the crossword puzzle!

Start solving that crossword puzzle! Let’s get going on our journey! Use this site to help find your answers and get closer to becoming a doctor!!

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/bones_SW.html

If you have finished early learn some click here to learn some neat and GROSS facts!

http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/body/

Want to learn more about the human body?!

Try using these key phrases to search the web:

Human body for kids

Human anatomy for kids

Body Organs

I want to here from you! Mail comments and feedback to:

CCBarnes@uvm.edu

The Human Body!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Across
3. An organ that helps you balance:
7. The largest part of the brain, it makes up 85% of the brains weight.
8. The place beneath your skin where hair starts to grow:
10. The larger lung:
12. The white part of the eyeball is called the:
13. The main job of the _____________ is to filter the waste out of the blood.
14. The muscle that makes up the heart is called:
 
Down
1. The two holes in your nose are called:
2. An organ that is located a little to the left of the middle of your chest, and is about the size of your fist:
4. How many bones does the adult human body have?
5. Another name for baby teeth:
6. What part of the tongue helps you eat?
7. Where your nail meets your skin is your:
9. A system that breaks down the food you ate:
11. The organ that covers and protects everything inside of your body: