Tuition Payment Terms

The total course is billed at $500 for the year. Please be prepared to pay for each quarter ($125) on the first day of that respective quarter. This fee does not include the extra lab costs (as delineated below in Course Materials).

Course Overview

This course is an introduction to anatomy and physiology for upper elementary students. The term anatomy refers to the study of the human body, and all of its parts within organ systems, organs, and tissues. Physiology examines how these parts work together in carrying out a bodily function. The course provides a survey of the nine major systems accordingly:
  1. Skeletal
  2. Muscular
  3. Digestive
  4. Respiratory
  5. Cardiovascular
  6. Nervous System and Special Senses
  7. Integumentary System (Skin)
  8. Lymphatic and Immune
  9. Reproductive
It is my prayer that your child in completing this course develops an appreciation and sacred worship for the engineer behind the human body!

Instructional Strategy

Since we are only meeting one day a week, it seems wise to utilize class time for laboratories, discussions, and activities. Parents, please take the time at home to read to your student following the Weekly Pacing Schedule (linked below). Some tips for your reading:
  • Read slowly and with enthusiasm - as you know children will cue off of you whether the material is relevant
  • Pause after each section and verbally quiz the child as to a term that was introduced or a concept; this process of retrieval - though your child may find it challenging - is a very powerful way to enable them to learn the material more deeply
  • Unless indicated in the Weekly Pacing Schedule, complete the Try This! assignments at home at your discretion - as you see fit
  • Read the assignments before your child comes to class, as indicated on the Weekly Pacing Schedule
  • Complete the Notebooking Journal activities as you see fit. If time is short - skip the crossword puzzles and more textual based assignments in favor of completing the more craftier ones,  these are powerful learning aids
  • The quizzes are intended only to challenge your students to retrieve as much information as they can to enhance their learning; they are not really intended as assessment objects as I will grade for feedback only

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, children should be able to
  1. Identify all the major organs in the human body from images and an anatomical model
  2. Identify all the major bones in the human body from images and an anatomical model
  3. Describe the major processes carried out by each of the physiological systems
  4. Describe the hierarchy of life, how molecules form organelles, which make up cells, comprising tissues, making up organs, comprising organ systems, giving rise to the organism: the human
  5. Make paper/ cardstock models of major organs/ organ systems
  6. Explain a well-thought out, biblically-informed science of gender
  7. Describe how the scientific method works, and apply it to a personal research project
  8. Describe the role of intelligence in the design of complex life
  9. Present findings from their research project in a posterboard presentation

Course Materials

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  1. Apologia Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology
  2. Apologia Anatomy Notebooking Journal
  3. Lab kits (two students can share the commercially-prepared kit)
  4. Additional items not included in the kit (text, pp. 15-17) for labs performed in class according to the Weekly Pacing Schedule
  5. Laboratory notebook for recording observations in experiments (I can provide, parents can pay me, about $2 ea)
  6. Pen for writing in laboratory notebook
  7. Small plastic knitting loom for protein synthesis project (I can pick up from Michael's/ Hobby Lobby, about $5 ea)
Image Credits:
Banner: Cover of Apologia Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology
Buttons: Stomach cartoon from Shutterstock.com; brain, lungs, and heart from Vectorstock.com.