Dem Bones Dem Bones

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Dem Bones! Dem Bones

• Lynne H. Hehr
• Center for Mathematics and Science Education
• Arkansas NASA Educator Resource Center
• University of Arkansas
• lhehr_at_uark.edu

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• I have a little skeleton
• that goes everywhere with me.

It gives me shapeis made of bones.
Its very hard to see.
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Simon Says and Thinking Loops

• Simon says
• point to your skull
• touch your knee
• Etc.

This word begins with
an A and
is between your leg and your foot?
an E and is the part of your arm that bends?
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Activity 1 Bag of Bones

• Each student is given a bag of bones,
• Practice sounding out words.
• Glue words on body parts page.
• Label large skeleton on floor.
• View chicken bones.
• Pick 2 words and make a sentence.
• Pick 1 word and write a story.
• Create a Venn Diagram
• Bones that have more than 4 letters with bones
  found below the waist.
• Bones above the waist with bones below the waist.

AIMS magazine March 2004
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My Skeleton

• In pairs
• Draw around partner on butcher paper on floor.
• Talk about where we bend and our bones.
• Have each child mark the body bends.
• Draw bones.
• Cut at the bends.
• Connect with yarn.

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?Musical Bones ?

• In a group circle of 17
• 1 bone per person
• Form circle and face in
• Place bone on floor inside the circle
• Sing and move around the circle
• When singing ends, pick up bone and complete the
  skeleton
• Extension find name cards and place on bone

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? Musical Bones Song ?

• Here we go round the skeleton, the skeleton, the
  skeleton
• Here we go round the skeleton
• Lets put it all together.

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? BINGO ?
 
My arms have parts that bend and moveEvery time
I use them.Shoulder, elbow, wrist and
hand.Shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand.Shoulder,
elbow, wrist and hand.And this is how I move
them! My legs have parts that bend and
moveEvery time I use them.Knee, ankle, heel and
footKnee, ankle, heel and footKnee, ankle, heel
and footAnd this is how I move them! My trunk
has parts that bend and moveEvery time I use
them.Neck, back, waist and hipsNeck, back,
waist and hipsNeck, back, waist and hipsAnd
this is how I move them! I'm made of parts that
bend and moveEvery time I use them.Shoulder,
elbow, wrist and hand..Knee, ankle, heel and
foot.Neck, back, waist and hipsAnd this is how
I move them!
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?Did You Ever See a Skeleton? ?
  Did ya ever see a skel-e-ton, skel-e-ton,
skel-e-ton... Did ya ever see a skel-e-ton
walking around?   With foot bones leg bones
hipbones chest bones... Did ya ever see a
skel-e-ton walking around?   With hand bones
arm bones neck bones head bones... Did ya
ever see a skel-e-ton walking around?   With
tibia, fibula, femur foot bones With radius,
humerus, ulna hand bones   With pelvic
sternum, scapula neck bones With skull bones
jawbones, rib cage and backbone,   Did ya ever
see a skel-e-ton walking around?
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Skeleton Spin

• Spin the spinner
• Outline the bone(s) you land on or place on
  hanging skeleton (Oriental Trading)
• Lose a turn if you already have them.
• First one to outline the whole skeletonwins!

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Making skeletons

• Macaroni pasted on cardstock
• Cutouts (Ellison and Accu-cut)

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BONES Bingo

• Create enough bingo cards for all students to
  have a different card.
• Call drawn cards.
• First one to get 5 in a row, Bingos.

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Card Games

• Bones Concentration
• Go Fish

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Measure and predict

• With a partner,
• Measure your femur (upper leg bone) from where it
  joins your hip to where it joins your knee.
• Measure your height.
• Record your measurements on a class chart with
  the rest of your classmates.
• Younger students can use yarn or rolls of adding
  machine tape. Measure, add name, tape the height
  strip to the wall and then tape the femur length
  on top of the height strip.
• Does the length of the femur relate in any way to
  height?

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Skeleton

• A skeleton is made up of bones that give us
  shape and keep the body from flopping around like
  a bowl of jelly.
• The smallest bone is in the ear.
• The longest bone is the femur.
• The skeleton protects our insides - like our
  brain, heart, lungs, and stomach.

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Bones

• Bone is living tissue.
• Bones make up the skeleton.
• The skeleton keeps your insides safe and gives
  you shape.
• Bones act as a frame to hold you up and move
  with the help of muscles.
• There are 300 bones in a babys body.
• There are 206 bones in an adult body.
• Some bones are thick and some are thin.
• Some bones are flat and some are curved.

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Skull

• This is a skull.
• Its like a box around the brain that protects
  it from getting hurt.
• The skull is made up of 22 bones.

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Ribs

• This set of bones is like a cage that protects
  your inner organs.
• This is a ribcage.
• Its made up of 12 pairs of ribs.
• It protects your heart and lungs.

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Hand

• The is a hand.
• It has 27 bones in it.
• It has many bones that move - to pick a
  flower, hold a crayon and wave hello.

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Joint

• Bones cannot bend so when 2 bones come
  together and need to move, they form a joint.
• This is a joint. There are over 230 joints in
  the body.
• One of the joints in an arm is called the
  elbow.
• One of the joints in a leg is call the knee.

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Inside your skin

• This is what a body looks like on the inside.

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Skeleton

• This is an X-ray of the body.
• See the bones inside.
• What bones do you see?
• Doctors use X-rays to see broken bones.
• Have you ever had a broken bone?

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X-ray

• X-rays see inside our skin.
• X-rays help us look at our bones.
• X-rays dont hurt when they are taken, its
  just like taking a picture of bones.

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Head

• This is an X-ray of the head.
• What do you see?

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Mouth and jaw

• This is an X-ray of the mouth, teeth and jaw.
• Point to
• the mouth.
• the teeth.
• the jaw.
• Where is the ear?

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Chest

• This is an X-ray of the bones in the chest.
• Do you see the ribs?
• Count them.

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Shoulder

• This is an X-ray of a shoulder.
• What bones do you see?

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Elbow

• This is an X-ray of an elbow.
• The elbow is a joint.
• What is the name of the upper arm bone?
• What are the names of the lower arm bones?

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Hand

• This is an X-ray of a hand.
• Find all 27 bones that make up the hand.

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Knee

• This is an X-ray of the knee.
• The knee is a joint that helps your leg move.
• Name the upper leg bone.
• Name the lower leg bones.

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Hips

• This is an x-ray of the hip.
• Its called the pelvis.
• You sit on this.

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Foot

• This is an X-ray of the foot.
• The foot has 27 bones.
• What is the part at the back of your foot
  called?

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Foot

• This is a view of a foot from the top.

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The skeleton

• Put all the bones together and you have a
  skeleton.
• Add muscles, organs, skin and a whole lot more
  and you have a body.

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Books and Resources

• Human Body by DK Eye Wonder
• Learning About My Body by Evan-Moor
• Looking into My Body by Readers Digest
• Magic School Bus in the Human Body by Joanna Cole
  
• Pop-up Human Body
• Skeletons! Skeleton! All About Bones by Katy Hall