How to Use the Clay Lessons in Your Curriculum

Starting your program with the lessons and activities can feel overwhelming, but I have your back! Also, remember you can text me, call me, or email me anytime you have a question.

I'm suggesting this core sequence and then you can add the smaller pocket lessons (eye, nephron, heart building, etc.) as you want.

When I list the Star's Notes, these are my classroom notes with teaching tricks, flashcards, and learning tricks that add more content to the building. (If you've been in my workshops, you will remember me saying that this is exactly what they need to learn for college, nursing school, or other medical training.

Most importantly the Star's Notes and Hands-On Body System Activities save you time! You have these notes, so you are not staying up until 2 am and you have a proven activity to guide students through learning and assessment.

Hands-On Body Systems (HOBS) Activities are the clay building and kinesthetic learning!

Star's Notes and Hands-On Body Systems are step-by-step lesson plans. You only need one of each. If you want to share these with other teachers on your campus, I have a very affordable site license.

SEQUENCE OF BUILDING:

HOBS Diagrams:

(You only need one of these. This has all the diagrams for the HOBS activities to make your laminated boards. The diagrams are specifically created for the activities.

HOBS Movement & Communication:

This activity covers skeletal, muscular, nervous, and cardiovascular systems and shows interrelationships between the systems. You can add Star's Notes: Module I, IIA, III, IVA, VIA and VIB for extra content.

HOBS Movement & Communication Clay Kit per student. If you have a lot of students and want to buy the clay in bulk and cut it yourself, let me know and I'll send you my clay source for you.

This can take up to 6-8 weeks to complete depending on how much content you add. Remember the clay does not dry out, so you do not have to build every day. You need to build a board for each class because, as you know, each class will not build at the same pace. You can use your boards and students' boards to make practical exam/quiz. This helps them so much in college.

You can continue with: Each HOBS activity has a clay kit that goes with it.

HOBS CV and Respiratory:

For middle school and freshmen, you can continue this lesson on the same skeletal board. If you are teaching A & P, Health Science or Sports medicine switch to the outline of the body and build the cardiovascular system in greater detail.

If you switch to a new board, go to Walmart and buy a box of the twist tie gallon bags. These will be "body bags" for students to put their board in and take home. They will put them in shadow boxes and display them, take them to college, use them for presentations and study groups.

If you do "Hall of Fame" as instructed by the HOBS Movement & Communication Activity, those boards will be displayed, and students can take them home later. Many times, students want you to write on their board: Great Job Scottie! etc.

HOBS Construction of Lymph and WBCs.

You can add Star's Notes: Lymph & Immune Systems: "Working Together to make all Systems Safe!"

HOBS Gastrointestinal

This is the core curriculum for most health science or medical terminology. As I stated before, you can add more of the smaller pocket lessons, such as Heart Construction, nephron (Kidneys made easy), etc. to add a higher content level for your class or juniors/seniors.

OPTION:

You may just want to start out with one type of activity and then each year add a new one. Just depends on your budget and how you want to implement the system. Again, don't be shy about asking any questions. I'm happy to help you get this into your students' hands and have you enjoy watching them learn in such a successful and fun way!