Subject: Health-
Skeletal System
Grade: Sixth
Topic: Bones in the Human Body
Objectives:
Students will be able to identify fourteen main bones in the skeletal system. The students will know which bones are connected to each other and where the bones are located in the human skeletal.
Instructional Technique:
This activity will be a combination of class discussion, demonstration, and individual work.
Materials:
· Interactive Wed Page
· Life Size Skeletal Poster
· Cut outs of the bone
· Fill in the blank worksheet
· Cut out worksheet
Theoretical Perspective:
It is very important the students learn about the systems of the body, on of which is the skeletal system. Students need to be aware of what their bodies are made up of. The human body system allows students to have a greater understanding of how their bodies work and function.
Procedure:
Introduction: Start the lesson by introducing human body systems to the students. Then inform the students there are nine major human body systems: skeletal, muscular, circulatory, nervous, respiratory, digestive, excretory, endocrine and reproductive. Once you have introduced all of them, explain to the students that the lesson for the week will be focusing on the Skeletal System.
Day One: Lecture about the purpose of the skeletal system. Explain how the main role of the skeletal system is to provide support for the body, to protect delicate internal organs and to provide attachment sites for the organs. Then introduce the main bones in the skeletal system. Have an in class lecture and talk about each individual bone and its significance to the human body’s structure. The sixteen main bones which you need to cover are: Skull, Clavicle, Vertebral Column, Ribs, Sternum, Pelvis, Humerus, Scapula, Ulna, Radius, Carpals, Phalanges, Femur, Patella, Fibula, Tibia and Tarsals. During your lecture, show your students a life size poster of the skeletal system, one that looks identical to the worksheet in front of them. Once the lecture is over, pass out the homework, a worksheet with a picture of a skeleton and have to students label the skeleton using their bone vocabulary.
Day Two: Review the homework. Once the class is done reviewing the homework aloud, ask the students if they have any questions. Then give the students some more information about the importance of the skeletal system and continue the lecture if you did not complete the lesson yesterday. Once all of that it completed, pass out the worksheet with the cut outs of the skeleton. Have the students label, color and cut out all of the bones. Allow the students to do this for the remainder of the class. If the students finish early, they can begin their homework which is to write a page paper on the Skeletal System; what is the function of the skeletal system and why is it important? What makes up the skeletal system?
Day 3: Have the students work on a computer in the classroom, or if there are not enough computers in the classroom, sign up from the computer lab for this class. The students will use this website and will explore the skeletal system through this interactive website. This website will test the student’s knowledge of the skeletal system. The students will use what they have learned in the past two days to help answer questions to help them advance through the websites exploration.
*NOTE* Inform the students that they will be evaluated on this information which will be included in a unit test after learning about the circulatory and muscular system.
Practice: For extra practice students can go to http://www.abcya.com/skeletal_system.htm to click and drag the names of the bones to their appropriate box to help them understand where each bone belongs on a skeleton.
Evaluation:
The interactive web page is a form or evaluation of the students’ knowledge of the skeletal system. The students will also be evaluated on this knowledge on their unit test including the skeletal system, circulatory system and the muscular system.