Teaching the Locomotor System in your TEFL Classroom

This week, I started helping one of my co-teachers in her 5th-6th grade natural science classes. I’m pretty excited about this new development because I think we can do a lot of hands-on experiments, crafts, and games!

However, as Friday was my 6th graders’ first day starting the new topic (the locomotor system), I decided to start off with a basic introduction.  They don’t have a science textbook in English (only Spanish), so I made them an interactive notebook activity as a “cheat sheet” to introduce the information in English.

You can download the interactive notebook pages here (you have to print it double-sided, so they can fold it in half and cut it, so the heading windows will open to show the information).  They cut, folded, and glued the sheet into their notebook, and, then, we read the information together, and they decorated their notebooks to their liking.

Next, I hope to make a model of a human hand to make class a little bit more fun and interactive, now that they have the basic information!

¡Buena suerte!