The projects, experiments, and 'Try-its' in the textbook are fine. My job is to make the class worthwhile and add more ideas, starting with an overview. Home Training Tools has a muscle project in which you make a hand model and a muscle worksheet. The worksheet instructs students to identify which muscles they use to kick a ball or throw a frisbee and draw pictures of these activities. One extension is to associate other activities with muscles, such as sitting and the gluteus.
Lisa Jones Broomfield has an idea: Seek muscles in art images. Michael Angelo immediately comes to mind. Screen the images for appropriate muscles!
Our class is going to adapt the experiment on p. 67, substitute the Muscle Fatigue Lab, and graph the results to minimize the amount of work the families have to do outside of class. One last Muscle Lab from Baylor and a fun demonstration for boys and girls picking up a chair to demonstrate center of gravity. Try it! Girls can and boys cannot. Fun!
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