Skeletal System

Author Names: Betty Jo Leonard and Chris Woods

Grade level:  Seventh Grade

Subjects
 

Science

Time Frame
45 minute class period

Objectives

In this lesson, students will:

• Be able to identify, label, and spell the 25 bones of the body covered in class.
• Associate different types of pasta relating to the size and shape of the 25 bones in the body studied in class.

 

 

• Assorted types of pasta
• Macaroni
• Shells
• Lasagna
• Spaghetti
• Fettuccine
• Glue
• Butcher Paper
• Shoe Boxes for each group of four students
• Coloring Pencils

 
 

1. After having studied the skeletal system of the human body, students will review for a test by making a skeleton. The students will be using various sizes and shapes of pasta to identify the various bones studied in class.

2. Previous to class participation: (per groups of four students)
a. Have an outline of the human body drawn (approximately 4 ft. high) on the butcher paper for each group of four students.
b. Distribute the various types of pasta into the shoeboxes.

3. Students are instructed to use the various types of pasta to represent the 25 bones in the human body learned in class.

4. After the pasta has been placed they may now use the glue to attach the pasta to the paper.

5. Label the pasta bones with the correct scientific name with the coloring pencils.

Curriculum Frameworks Addressed by this Lesson:
THEME: 1.3 COLLECTING DATA - The acquiring, recording, arranging and storing of information must be performed in a complete, accurate, concise and user-friendly manner.
Tennessee Standard 1.3a - Data are collected using the senses, instrumentation, and a variety of other technologies.
Benchmarks: The reading and interpretation of measuring instruments are necessary in determining length, volume, weight, elapsed time, rates,
and temperature.
Tennessee Standard 1.3b - Data should be appropriate, accurate, and free of bias.
Benchmarks:
The larger a scientific sampling is, the more likely it is to represent the whole. Information may be acquired from a variety of sources such as reference books, computer disks and databases, and back issues of periodicals.
Tennessee Standard 1.3c - Safety features should be observed in all areas of data collection.
Benchmarks: Safety procedures are introduced prior to and practiced during all data collection.
THEME: 2.3 ORGANIZATION - Everything is organized as related systems within systems.
Tennessee Standard 2.3a - Natural phenomena display a wide variety of similarities and differences.
Benchmarks: Similarities and differences can be observed from the most minute phenomena to the vastness of the universe.
Tennessee Standard 2.3b - Groupings are based on similarities related to structure and function.
Benchmarks: Thinking about things as systems means looking for how every part relates to others. Many systems contain feedback mechanisms that serve to keep changes within specified limits. Different arrangements of atoms into groups compose all substances. A system can include processes as well as objects.
THEME: 3.2 ASSUMPTIONS - The recognition and criticism of the validity of an argument through presentation of data and differentiation between fact and assumption in the preparation of an explanation for a natural phenomenon are vital parts of the scientific process.
Tennessee Standard 3.2a - Science is based upon suppositions derived from observations of natural phenomena.
Benchmarks: New ideas in science sometimes spring from unexpected findings, and they usually lead to new investigations. Practice at making observations allows for discoveries from otherwise unnoteworthy events.
Tennessee Standard 3.2b - Predictions are based on previous knowledge.
Benchmarks: Knowledge and creative insight are usually required to recognize the meaning of the unexpected.
Tennessee Standard 3.2c - The critical assumptions behind any line of reasoning must be made explicit so that the validity of the position taken can be judged.
Benchmarks: Analyzing different possibilities may eliminate incorrect assumptions.
Tennessee Standard 3.2d - The validity of an investigation cannot be accepted unless the complete investigation can be independently duplicated.
Benchmarks: Design usually requires taking constraints into account. Accurate record keeping and replication allow students to test the validity
of experiments.
THEME: 3.6 CREATIVE ENTERPRISE - Creativity contributes to the processes of science through ideas and inventions.
Tennessee Standard 3.6a - Imagination plays an integral role in science.
Benchmarks: Scientists are open to new possibilities.
Tennessee Standard 3.6b - Creativity is both a mental and a physical process.
Benchmarks: Alternative methods of investigating and reporting are offered.
Tennessee Standard 3.6c - Creativity enables development of new concepts, processes, and attitudes toward scientific inquiry.
Benchmarks: People who engage in design and technology use scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
Tennessee Standard 3.6d - The human ability to shape the future comes from a capacity for generating knowledge, developing new technologies and for communicating ideas.
Benchmarks: Economic health is promoted with technological development.
 
 

For additional relevant information, visit the following Web sites:

Title1  Skeletal System
URL1: http://library.advanced.org/10348/find/content/skeletal.html

Title2: Human Anatomy
URL2: http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
 

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