Mr. Skeleton - Scholastic

1 Mr. SkeletonDisplay the Mr. Skeleton pattern onthe classroom bulletin board and listnames of important bones on strips ofpaper. Students will enjoy researchingthese bones and labeling the variousareas of the enough copies of Mr. Skeletonfor everyone in the class. Children willlove assembling their own skeletonswith brass fasteners and displayingthem at home, on Halloween. Teacher s Friend, a Scholastic Company 66 Skull(Head)Vertebrae(Neck)Humerus(Upper Right Arm)Humerus(Upper Left Arm)October Idea Book Teacher s Friend, a Scholastic Company 67 CLAVICLESCAPULARIBSBONE)(COLLARRIBS(SHOU LDERBLADE)STERNUM(BREAST BONE)(left foot)(right foot)(toes)(toes)October Idea Book Teacher s Friend, a Scholastic Company 68 FEMUR(right leg)(right arm)(FOREARM)RADIUSULNAULNA(FOREARM)RADI US(left arm)FEMUR(THIGHBONE)(left leg)(THIGHBONE)October Idea Book Teacher s Friend, a Scholastic Company 69 WRIST(FINGERS)(left hand)(right hand)CARPALSMETACARPALSPHALANGESPATELLA( left leg)TIBIA(SHIN BONE)(CALF BONE)FIBULATIBIA(SHIN BONE)(CALF BONE)FIBULA(right leg)(KNEE CAP)October Idea Book Teacher s Friend, a Scholastic Company 70 VERTEBRAEPELVIS(SPINAL COLUMN)

2 HIP BONEO ctober Idea BookLIFE-SIZED SKELETONSM otivate your students into learningabout the human body with a life-sized Skeleton !Have students trace aroundeach other's bodies on largesheets of butcher paper andcut them out. Give the childrenthe Mr. Skeleton patterns tocut out and paste on top oftheir body shapes. (The patterns contained inthis unit are just the right sizefor most the patterns for olderstudents.) The skeletons can bedisplayed on the class board asan informative but fun way tolearn the bones of the X-RAYA fter a discussion about thehuman Skeleton , have your stu-dents experience viewing theirown bones with this the room and ask eachchild to take a turn holding thepalm of their hand over aflashlight. If they look carefully,the children will be able to seethe bones and joints connect-ing the fingers.

3 Students candraw pictures of what they YOU largest bone in the body isthe thigh bone, or femur. It measuresabout 20 inches long in a person sixfeet tall. The smallest bone in thebody is the stirrup bone. It is found inthe ear and is only one-tenth of aninch AAAA ccccttttiiiivvvviiiittttiiiieeeessss!!!! Teacher s Friend, a Scholastic Company 71 BODYMATHWhen ababy is born,he has 300bones in his an adult, he will have only reason he has fewer is that manyof the bones will fuse together as the following count of bones inthe body, ask your student to calcu-late a variety of math bones in each arm31 bones in each leg29 bones in the skull26 bones in the spine25 bones in the chestHere are some other body statisticsthat can be used for math word prob-lems and at the same time provideknowledge of the human human body contains about 8pints of 400 gallons of blood flowsthrough your kidneys each small intestine is 20 feet longand the large intestine is 5 feet body is made up of about 70%water, or about 3/4 of your heart beats about 100,000times a blink your eyes about 20.

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