This is a fun assessment project used to determine if students can understand the different levels of organization in the body, from cells to tissues, tissues to organs, and organs to organ systems.  Students will make a comparison of these levels to rides at an amusement park, and their analagies/comparisons will illustrate their understanding or lack of understanding.

This website provides a model human body for students to explore organ systems, along with a mind map activity. By using the model human body, students can visualize each organ system, explore how the organ systems overlap, and learn the function and parts. Afterwards, students can be placed into groups and given 6 prompts that describe organ systems working together - each prompt corresponds to one box on the mind map. This collaborative exercise can be used as a formative assessment to ensure that students understand how organ systems work together. This website comes with teacher tips, teacher notes, learning objectives, and suggested times. For a potential supplemental activity, teachers can print the body system diagrams on overhead transparency sheets. Teachers can make several sets of transparencies and hand them to students working in small groups. It would be like a mini "See Through Sally" for each group.