Mr. Skeleton

Display the Mr. Skeleton pattern on the classroom bulletin board and list Skull (Head) names of important bones on strips of paper. Students will enjoy researching these bones and labeling the various areas of the skeleton. Make enough copies of Mr. Skeleton for everyone in the class. Children will love assembling their own skeletons with brass fasteners and displaying them at home, on Halloween.

Vertebrae (Neck)

Humerus (Upper Right Arm)

(Upper Left Arm) Humerus

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(SHOULDER

RIBS BLADE)

RIBS SCAPULA

STERNUM (BREAST BONE)

(left foot) (right foot) (toes) (toes)

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(THIGH BONE) RADIUS (THIGH BONE) RADIUS ULNA ULNA (FOREARM) (left arm)

(right arm) (left leg) (right leg)

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PATELLA

(left leg)

(left hand) (FINGERS) (KNEE CAP) (SHIN BONE) (CALF BONE) (right leg)

TIBIA FIBULA FIBULA

TIBIA

(CALF BONE) (CALF (SHIN BONE) (SHIN

CARPALS

METACARPALS

(right hand)

PHALANGES

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(SPINAL COLUMN) PELVIS HIP BONE

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LIFE-SIZED SKELETONS BODY Motivate your students into learning MATH about the human body with a life- When a sized skeleton! baby is born, Have students trace around he has 300 each other's bodies on large bones in his body. sheets of butcher paper and As an adult, he will have only 206. cut them out. Give the children The reason he has fewer is that many the Mr. Skeleton patterns to of the bones will fuse together as he cut out and paste on top of grows. their body shapes. (The Mr. Using the following count of bones in Skeleton patterns contained in this unit are just the right size the body, ask your student to calcu- for most kindergartners. late a variety of math problems. Enlarge the patterns for older 32 bones in each arm students.) The skeletons can be 31 bones in each leg displayed on the class board as 29 bones in the skull an informative but fun way to 26 bones in the spine learn the bones of the body. 25 bones in the chest FLASHLIGHT X-RAY Here are some other body statistics After a discussion about the that can be used for math word prob- human skeleton, have your stu- lems and at the same time provide dents experience viewing their knowledge of the human body. own bones with this intriguing activity. The human body contains about 8 Darken the room and ask each pints of blood. child to take a turn holding the About 400 gallons of blood flows palm of their hand over a through your kidneys each day. flashlight. If they look carefully, the children will be able to see The small intestine is 20 feet long the bones and joints connect- and the large intestine is 5 feet long. ing the fingers. Students can The body is made up of about 70% draw pictures of what they see. water, or about 3/4 of your body DID YOU KNOW... weight. The largest bone in the body is Your heart beats about 100,000 the thigh bone, or femur. It measures times a day. about 20 inches long in a person six feet tall. The smallest bone in the You blink your eyes about 20,000 body is the stirrup bone. It is found in times a day. the ear and is only one-tenth of an inch long. © Teacher’s Friend, a Scholastic Company 71 October Idea Book