Dr. _____ Says
This is a great activity to get your students up and moving in the classroom while processing and learning
anatomical and directional terminology. You can make up new ones; these are just a few of mine.
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Put your finger on a spot anterior to your heart, just inferior to your mandible and lateral to your
trachea.
o What should everyone be doing? Taking pulse
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Put your right hand on your sternum, move it laterally toward your left humerus about 3 inches
o What might you be doing if there was a flag in the room? Pledge
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Place the anterior side of your hands together and then move them to a position that is superior to the
bone structure containing your hypothalamus
o Walk like an Egyptian
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Place your hands on the ventral face of your metatarsals, move them medially, now anteriorly, now
superiorly, now laterally, now medially until they contact your sternum
o Ti Chi
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With your finger, trace a line beginning at a spot superficial to the cervical vertebrae on their posterior
side. Move along an oblique plane, inferior and lateral to the right, now trace medially and continue
laterally to the left about 6 inches, turn and trace superiorly and medially.
o What shape? Triangle
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Place your hands superficial to your quadriceps, move them distally to the patellar region. Move both
hands medially and continue laterally until they touch the opposing patellar region (repeat)
o Charlie Brown
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Place one hand on your clavicle, move it superiorly, posteriorly, inferiorly
o What bone are you touching? Scapula
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Place both hands on the gluteal region. Move them laterally to the hips (name this region) and then
superiorly to the axillary region. Now move your olecranal regions superiorly and inferiorly (repeat)
o Chicken dance
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Trace your finger on the mid-sagittal plane beginning at the anterior region superficial to your frontal
lobe and move inferiorly
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Trace a frontal plane beginning at your left patella and move superiorly to your otic region.