Science is stylish with this fun wearable kit available at the OISE Library. The What’s Inside Me? Apron offers an interactive look at human biology, presenting a three-dimensional peek inside the internal systems and structures of the human body. The kit includes a child-sized wearable apron, headband, and three-dimensional cloth models of the brain, heart, lungs. esophagus, stomach, liver, large intestine, small intestine, and kidneys. The organ models can be affixed to the apron and headband using velcro, offering an interactive experience for young learners teaching them to identify and situate the organs of the body. The kit also comes with short pamphlet which includes suggestions for discussions and activities teachers could potentially facilitate using the apron.
The apron is suitable for students as young as preschool aged, and would fit especially well with Grade 1 Science lessons regarding life systems and the human body in the Ontario Curriculum. For older age groups other manipulatives in the OISE Library collection might be a useful supplement to the What’s Inside Me? Apron; activity kits such as the Cross Section Brain Model and the Double-Sided Magnetic Human Body offer a more detailed look at the human body.
The What’s Inside Me? Apron is on display on the ground floor of the OISE Library next to the Information Desk, swing by and spend some time considering matters of the heart (and intestines).
Check out the OISE Library K-12 Manipulatives Database to find more fun and educational activity kits!
