Nanette Martin & Trent Lee

Turkey Trot: Teacher Sheet

Title:Skeleton Bones

Grade:3rd Grade

Lesson Objectives:The students will look at different human bones and will learn where each bone is located on a human body and the name of each bone.

TEKS:

Materials List:

-Handouts of human bones

-Scissors, colors/markers/colored pencils, and tape

-A large poster where the human bones will be placed

Advance Preparation:

-Copies of human bones – they need to cut up and divided to equal the amount of students in the class room.

-Cut out the large poster (I’m going to use butcher paper)

Background Information:

This mini-lesson is basically to reinforce knowledge of the human body and where each bone is located. I think this will be a really fun way to check the students understanding of the anatomy of the human body. Again, there needs to be prior knowledge of the human body for the activity to be successful.

Procedure:

  1. Preparation – Find handouts or pictures of human bones. They need to be big enough for the students to color. I’m going to make my bones fairly big. Therefore, I have to cut a big enough poster to put all of the bones up on.
  2. Ask the students questions, this will activate their prior knowledge on this subject. Questions such as, “What kinds of bones are these? Where would these bones be located on the human body? What region of the body would this be located – top, middle, or bottom? What kind of bone is this?” You need to refresh the student’s memory about the different names and locations of the bones. The possibilities are endless when coming up with questions that you can ask your students.
  3. When the students have completed the bone handout (colored and cut the bone out), then begin asking the students, one by one, to tape their bone to the poster. They also need to name the bone while taping their bones up on the poster.
  4. Help the students that need more help than others determine where to place the bone. This is designed to be a fun activity in which they can learn and practice on their prior knowledge of this subject – they do not have to be experts coming into this activity.
  5. At the end of the lesson, give the class a treat. That is unless there are some that do not deserve a treat.

Assessment:The students will be assessed on their basic understanding of the human body by placing each bone in the correct place on the poster and telling the class what the name of the particular bone that each student has.

Source (s):Nanette Martin and Trent Lee created this lesson with the help of a science teacher at Murfee Elementary to provide the original human bone handouts.