1. 3rd Grade Science Lab
The skeleton

2. The Skeleton Dance
Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dancing Bones

3. Mandible
Your Bones
Phalanges

4. Number Your Bones Your Hands Your Skull Smallest Bone
8 in the Wrist
Your Skull
29 Bones
8 in the Cranium
14 in the Face
Smallest Bone
stapes (ear)
Largest Bone
femur (leg)
Bones in Your Body
300 as a Baby
206 as an Adult
Bone Grows Until…
Girls (16-18 years old)
Boys (18-21 years old)

5. What Your Bones Can Say…
“I’m Female”
“I’m Male”

6. Your Spinal Column Disc Vertebrae Vertebrae, Discs, & Spinal Cord
The “back bone” is actually is 31 segments.
The spinal cord is the communication pathway between your brain and your nervous system.
45 cm in men
43 cm in women
Disc
Vertebrae

8. Build a Spinal Column 1 Pipe Cleaner 4 Marshmallows
5 Gummy Life Savers
1 Zip Lock Bag
Thread the marshmallows and
life savers onto the pipe cleaner
to symbolize your spinal column.

9. Q-Tip Skeleton Materials Procedure Black Construction Paper Scissors
Paper Skull
Q-Tips (3 whole, 18 halves)
White Glue
Handout w/ Bones Names
Procedure
Glue to skull near the top of the construction paper
Use the whole Q-Tips for the vertebrae and the 2 femurs
Use the halves to make the shoulders, arms, ribs, hips, and lower legs
Cut out and glue on the bone names

11. Skeleton Building Race
Study the skeleton handout and the skeleton on the board.
Practice putting the skeleton together .
RACE – which group can get their skeleton together the quickest with no mistakes??