Skeletal System
There are 206 bones in an adult skeleton. We will be looking at/ memorizing the name of less than 25 of them. This mini unit will take around a week with most of the time spent on the owl pellet group project.
Activities
Learn the bones of the upper body and quiz on just those.
Skull Identification Simulation
Learn the bones of the lower body and quiz on just those.
Owl Pellets: using the owl pellet to cover topics of ecology, food webs, and the skeletal system. Students will take the bones of the owl pellet and create the skeleton of a mouse or rat (although some pellets contain birds or other rodents).
Broken Bones lab & video
Movies
Dirty Jobs: Owl Pellets
Broken Bones
Pushing the Limits: Strength
Bone Review: a quick review of the bones.
NGSS
MS-LS1-3. Use argument supported by evidence for how the body is a system of interacting subsystems composed of groups of cells.
Assessment is limited to the circulatory, excretory, digestive, respiratory, muscular, and nervous systems.