Bone Business

Suggested Time: 60 minutes
Overview
Students will engage in a variety of activities, including interactive reading and the skeleton dance, to learn about the parts of the human skeleton. Then they will design their own labeled diagram in a fun arts and crafts project.
Vocabulary
Objectives
Next Generation Science Standards
Required Project Materials
Multimedia Resources
Optional Multimedia Resources
Before the Lesson/ Background Information
Homework from Previous Session:
The Lesson
Part 1: Dancing Bones (30 mins)
  1. Show a fun skeleton video and do a skeleton dance with the students.
  2. Read along with the kids. After each book, have them identify what they learned on the skeleton diagram or add their own lyrics to the Skeleton Dance.
Part 2: Build Your Own Skeleton!* (30 mins)
  1. Give each student a black piece of construction paper.
  2. Using Q-tips, each student should assemble a skeleton on the paper. They can cut or bend the Q-tips to make desired shapes. Encourage them to be creative!
  3. Afterwards, students should place the organ stickers in their appropriate places on the skeletons.
  4. The next step is to label each major bone in the body. Students should use the gel pen to write labels on the black paper.
  5. Finally, students will decorate the skeletons.
  6. Each student will have a skeleton to take home!
*Another way of conducting this lesson is to separate students into groups. Each group will build a separate section of the skeleton, then connect the skeleton together and hang the finished product on the wall and fix labels near the parts. This can also be done with other kinds of materials.