Human Body – Years 1-2
(ages 5-7)
School Closure Learning Programme
4 of 5 days
Label Skeleton
Activity 1
Introduction
This engaging activity encourages your child to learn more about their body. Through a
series of guided tasks your child will soon learn that their body is supported by a skeleton.
What to do
Go to www.i-board.lgfl.net and select Science and then Me and Us
This is a labelling activity with a twist. Construct the skeleton by dragging the fader bar to
check the bones are in the right place.
Choose a boy or girl’s body using the buttons below the skeleton.
Ask your child to drag labels or type their own depending on their age and ability. Some
children might like to label with names of the bones rather than the body parts.
Questions you could ask
Where do you think the smallest bone is in the body? Ear
Where do you think the largest bone is in the body? In the leg - the thigh bone
Which part of the human body has the most bones? In the hands - 27 in each hand
How many bones do you think there are in an adult? 206
What would happen if humans didn't have bones? You'd be floppy like a beanbag
Activity 2
Introduction
This is an effective awareness activity for your child to understand that their body grows at
different speeds.
What to do
Go to http://ve.lgfl.net and select Virtual Experiments then 2C – Variation
We all grow at different speeds and different parts of our body grow at different speeds too.
Ask you child to find out how tall the pupils are. Encourage them to slide the measuring gage
down until it touches the pupils head. Click on each pupil to measure them.
Another measurement your child can make is a hand span. Ask them to measure the pupils
hand span. Click on each pupil to measure them.
Order the heights from the shortest to the tallest. Drag each pupil to their correct place.
Repeat this process for the hand spans too.
Questions you could ask
Did the tallest person have the largest hands?
Did the smallest person have the smallest hand?
Extension Activity
Introduction
By utilising everyday objects to mimic bones and with play dough to represent the body, this
allows your child to broaden their awareness and understanding of the importance of a
skeleton.
What to do
Provide your child with toothpicks (could be anything that represents the bone) and play
dough or plastercine, so that they can use it to create animal or human figures. Suggest that
your child uses the toothpicks to represent the bones of their figures. Later, ask, "What
would your play dough figures look like without the toothpick 'bones’?” “How would they
move differently?” “What could they do without the bones that they can't do with them?"
Write a simple poem. Your child could start with
I have bones in my fingers,
I have bones in my toes,
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