Word+Association+Muscles


 * **Name of Activity:** **Word Association Muscles** ||

**Purpose of Activity:** To learn the names and locations of major muscles in the body **Suggested Grade Level:** K-5 **Materials Needed:** Diagram of human muscles

**__Description of Idea__** This is a simple exercise to teach students the basic muscle groups with word association. These are the muscle groups and the words used to help remember them: Students may go through the rest of the major muscles and come up with interesting and unique associations to help learn them more easily and remember them.
 * Trapezius -- The muscle that "traps" your head onto your shoulders.
 * Deltoids -- The airplane muscles. Students put their hands out like an airplane. Then they remember DELTA AIRLINES.
 * Abdominals -- These are our DOMINOS PIZZA muscles. Students remember this is where the Dominos Pizza goes.
 * Obliques -- These are the muscles where they put their hands on their waist and say "OH BOY, that pizza was good."
 * Latissimus Dorsi -- These are our DINOSAUR MUSCLES. The muscle sounds like the name of a dinosaur. Dinosaurs sometimes have those BUMPS on their backs.
 * Gluteus Maximus -- Students remember this with the phrase, "Glue your bottoms to your seat."
 * Gastrocnemius -- This is the place where your legs store the GAS to run faster.