Mara A. Dunleavy
Objective
To increase the students’ vocabulary through team competition.
Activity
Using the vocabulary words of the unit (see glossary), set up a Jeopardy game board. The categories could be: Bones, Muscles, Connective Tissue, Joints, Knee, Miscellaneous.
The class could be divided into two teams with each student having a chance to identify the answer of the Jeopardy game.
Jeopardy is a popular game where an answer is revealed and the person must give the question. For example, an answer may read: femur, tibia, fibula. The student would have to respond: “What are bones of the lower leg.”
When the game is over, a spelling and definition quiz will be given to reinforce the vocabulary skills of the student.
Materials
Teacher—chalk, blackboard
Student—pen, notebook
Sample Lesson Plan—2
Objective
To allow the student to see and touch a human skeleton and also to illustrate the skeleton for their personal notebook.
Activity
The human skeleton should be displayed in the front of the room. On various bones, a piece of adhesive tape with a number on it is found. A worksheet listing 15-20 bones will be handed to each student. In groups of two, the students must come up and using their worksheet, identify bones. If No. 1 on the worksheet is the humerus, the student must find the humerus and record the number (found on the piece of tape), on their worksheet. When they finish, the next two students come up. Try to limit each two-some to five minutes, to allow all students to get through the exercise in one day.
In conjunction with the exercise above, students, at their desks, will be drawing the skeleton, both front and rear view, and label the bones. They may copy from their book, or you may use an overhead projector with the drawings, for others. The illustrations become part of the student’s notebook.
Materials
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Teacher—human skeleton, tape, worksheet, overhead projector, transparency of the human skeleton.
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Student—pen, notebook, pencil for drawing