Dear Parents and Students,
In this packet, we have included our January team newsletter and an extra credit opportunity in Life Science. Please read over the project and newsletter, and sign and return this form. Please keep the newsletter and extra-credit project papers and only return this top form.
We are kicking off our 3rd 9 weeks of this school year by learning about the human body and organ systems. In class, we have already been discussing the skeletal system and learning about the bones that make up the human body. We are offering the opportunity for students to complete one of the following projects to receive an extra-credit test grade. The projects will be due on Monday, January 25th. Students can bring projects in before they go to their homeroom class on this date (please only turn projects in on this date). We hope each student will take this opportunity, and we are excited to see the results!
-Mr. Cook and Ms. Parrish
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(Sign and return only this section by Wednesday, January 13th)
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Skeletal System Extra Credit Project
Ø Option 1: Draw and label the human skeleton on a poster-board (minimum size 11 x 17) for up to 100 points that will count as a test grade.
Ø Option 2: Create a model of the human skeleton, including labels or a legend (minimum size 11 x 17) for up to 120 points that will count as a test grade. You can use any materials to create your model EXCEPT food. Regardless of how you chose to create your model, please be sure that the bones are connected to one another somehow. This will vary depending on how you chose to build your model.
For both options, you must include and correctly label the following bones for full credit:
ü cranium (skull)
ü mandible (jaw)
ü clavicle (collarbone)
ü sternum
ü ribcage
ü vertebra(e)
ü humerus
ü radius
ü ulna
ü carpals
ü metacarpals
ü phalanges
ü pelvis
ü femur
ü patella
ü tibia
ü fibula
ü tarsals
ü metatarsals
ü phalanges
**Phalanges appears twice on this list because they are located both in the hands and feet.**