夏令營：我的身體如何運作？ - 仔細觀察

This class is a flexible ("flex class") in-depth follow up to the one-time live mini-lesson class named How Does My Body Work? - An Overview for Young Learners. Learners are welcome to enroll for this 7-week in-depth look without having taken the "Overview" class and learners who have taken the one-time class will get to review a bit of what was learned in the mini-lesson class.

Learners will get to dive deeper into the basic functions of the human body from the important role of the skin, bones, and muscles, to the functions of breathing, eating, seeing, and heart-beating! I will cover these basic functions by relating them to everyday objects and experiences. This class will be highly interactive through the use of regular video communication on Outschool and the external resource called Nearpod which will be 1-click away, accessible via a link posted weekly in the classroom. 

***HOW IT WORKS***
Students will engage with me, the teacher, as well as their peers by communicating via videos recorded on the learner/family's own time each week. Each week will be broken down into Lecture-Discussion-Activity and Project segments intermixed throughout using the Nearpod interface and Outschool platform. [The Nearpod interface will be a self-paced presentation with embedded teacher presentation/lecture video clips, discussion questions prompting the learners to respond with their thoughts via a recorded video, and "how-to" project videos where I will demonstrate the step-by-step creation of the weekly project/activity]. There will be 1 to 2 hands-on project/activity each week. 

In Week 1, for example, learners will be making edible layers of the skin for the project, and for the activity (a virtual field trip) they will be asked how their skin might be protecting them in that scenario. There will also be opportunities for an optional live "show-and-tell what you learned" type Outschool Zoom meeting where learners can interact with me and each other about what they have learned so far. Because of the young age of the learners for which this class is intended, special consideration has also been given to the assignment instructions - I will include either an instructional "how-to" video or voice recording reading the questions to them whenever a new activity is coming up in the Nearpod slides so that they can see and hear the instructions and it is not just text that has to be read.

***OVERVIEW***

Overall, the breakdown of the topics will be as follows (and will follow the same order as they are presented in "How Does My Body Work? - An Overview for Young Learners"):

Week 1 - How Does My Skin Work?
Week 2 - How Do My Bones Work?
Week 3 - How Do My Muscles (& Heart) Work?
Week 4 - Why/How Do I Eat?
Week 5 - Why/How Do I Breathe?
Week 6 - How Does My Brain Work?
Week 7 - How Does My Body Work? - Learners will do a project and participate in a final discussion tying in all the ways their body works together to help them do their favorite things!

All lessons will have Nearpod Lecture Videos with embedded Discussion Questions for learners to respond to and think about. This includes Project/Activity walk throughs with an interactive project board for learners to upload a picture of their projects. Once completed, learners are encouraged to Show & Tell their completed projects in a video message post on the Outschool Classroom page. At the end of week there are virtual field trip slides embedded in Nearpod that help them apply what they learned.

***LESSON BREAKDOWN***

The weekly lesson Nearpod code will be made available on Sundays for the week along with a list of materials needed and the detailed overview of the weekly lesson including number of video and interaction slides, and total video runtime for the week so that families can plan accordingly completing the lesson at their own pace.

Here is an approximation of weekly video runtimes and details to give you an idea of how the weekly lessons will flow:

**WEEK 1** 
51 minutes spread out across 1 to 9 min segments; 30 Nearpod Slides including 12 Interaction Slides and 2 Projects/Activities
**WEEK 2**
38 minutes, 9 video segments; 30 Nearpod Slides including 16 Interaction Slides and 2 Projects/Activities
**WEEK 3** 
45 minutes, 12 video segments; 30 Nearpod Slides including 14 Interaction Slides and 2 Projects/Activities
**WEEK 4** 
37 minutes, 8 video segments; 23 Nearpod Slides including 15 Interaction Slides and 1 Projects/Activities
**WEEK 5** 
25 minutes, 9 video segments; 24 Nearpod Slides including 14 Interaction Slides and 1 Project/Activities
**WEEK 6** 
Video Runtime Total: approx. 26 minutes; 8 video segments; 20 Nearpod Slides including 12 Interaction Slides and preparation for final project
**WEEK 7** 
Video Runtime Total: approx. 16 minutes; 8 video segments; FINAL PROJECT