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Skeletal System Web Enhanced Lesson
Created by Paula Barnard – Revised and Edited & recreated by Mrs. Mastriana
Get ready to learn about your skeletal system! Your body has many bones! Bones help give your body shape.
All your bones together are your skeleton. When we talk about the way, your bones work together it is your
skeletal system. Without your skeleton, you could not stand or even move. Think about what your life would
be like if you did not have a skeleton, or if your bones did not work together in a system.
Find the answers to questions 1 and 2 at Skeletal System.
1. Why is the skeletal system important?
2. How many bones are in a human body? Why do adults and babies have different numbers of bones?
Learn about calcium at KidsHealth-Minerals and answer the following question.
3. Why do we need calcium and how do we get it?
Every bone in your body has a name. Look at the human skeleton at Skeletal System and Hillendale's Skeletal
System.
Print out the Skeleton Worksheet (htm) or download and print (Word) and label the bones on your worksheet.
Find the answers to the following questions at Amazing Facts.
4. What is the longest bone in your body and where is it located? What is the smallest bone and where is it
located?
Find the answers to the following questions at Your Gross & Cool Body: Skeletal System.
5. What would happen if humans didn't have bones? What do bones do?
6. Explain how your bones move.
7. What is in the center of many of your bones and what does it do?
Compare your skeleton to the skeleton of a frog at Virtual Frog Dissection Kit: The Whole Frog.
8. How is a human skeleton like a frog's skeleton? How are they different? Hint: If you click on the
picture of the frog's skeletal system you will get a larger view.
Explore Your Gross & Cool Body: Sprained Ankle.
9. What happens when you sprain your ankle?
Body Systems WebLessons Overview and Instructions
Assignment 1 - Skeletal System
Assignment 4 - Digestive System
Assignment 2 - Muscular System
Assignment 5 - Circulatory
System
Assignment 3 - Respiratory
System
Assignment 6 - Nervous System
Assignment 7 - Review Activities
Body Systems Glossary || Teacher Information