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- Focus:
The body's skeletal system is a very complex piece of architecture. Through these activities, students will analyze, construct, and experiment with the skeleton.
Activities | Introduction | Objectives | Resources & Web Sites
Activities
| Activity 2A: The Skeleton |
(bone, skeletal structure, sequencing, disarticulated skeleton, anatomy)
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| Activity 2B: Bone Bingo |
(bone name, game) |
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| Activity 2C: Origin of Bone Names |
(bone, bone name, word origin, etymology, game, scavenger hunt) |
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| Activity 2D: Body Ratios and Proportions |
(body ratio, data comparison, body proportion, pattern, culture, greek) |
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| Activity 2E: No Bones About It - Which Animal is This? |
(bone, function, framework, comparative)
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| Activity 2F: Classifying Bones |
(bone, classification, bone name, skeleton, classifying) |
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| Activity 2G: Bone Perspectives |
(bone, inference, drawing, specimen preparation, career, medical illustration) |
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| Activity 2H: The Inside Story |
(skeleton, sequencing, inference, body proportion, osteoporosis, ossification)
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| Activity 2I: "The Aging Hand" |
(bone, skeletal change, sequencing, x-ray) |
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Introduction
Lesson 2, "Architecture of the Skeleton" emphasizes skeletal structure, skeletal changes across the life span, and skeletal similarities and differences between species. The initial activities focus on constructing a paper skeleton and learning bone names. These science activities are effectively coupled with a language activity that traces the origin of bone names, their original meanings and etymological roots. Later activities ask students to sequence drawings of the skeleton chronologically to show what happens to bones across the life span - this is done for pictures of the whole skeleton and pictures of the bones within the hands. Interactive group activities encourage students to calculate ratios of their own body measurements (see "Measuring Up" activity from Unit 1) - for example, students will compare their skull circumference to their height and determine what patterns emerge within the class. Drawing activities emphasize differences in perspective - students learn how views of bone from varying angles can lead to observational inferences about skeletal structure and function.
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Objectives
Students will be able to:
- Construct a skeleton
- Identify and label bones in a skeleton
- Investigate the origin of bone names
- Use ratios and proportions to determine skeletal measurements
- Recognize the skeleton as a framework for all vertebrates
- Sequence skeleton drawings based on developmental changes
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Resources & Web Sites
Scientific Root Words http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/courses.hp/zool250/Roots/RootsMain.htm
Skeletons and Skulls http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/skeletons/index.htm
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