Support and Motion Systems

6th Grade Science: The Systems In Our Body
Chapter: 1 Page: 30 (Turkish Educational System)

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Materials for the class

«  Chalk

«  Cartons on which the bone types are written

«  3 different colour cartons for hats

«  Scissors

«  Glue

Layout of the classroom

Schoolyard

Phase 1

The teacher asks the students to research the bone types for the next lesson.

When the teacher enters the class, he randomly chooses 3 students to give to his friends’ cartons with their headboards, flat bone, long bone, short bone written on them which he prepared earlier. The teacher will select 8 students for the group of students who will present the long bone, 7 students for the group of students who will present the flat bone, 12 students for the group who will present the short bone (the number of selected students can be changed according to the class.
Students who are selected to the groups are given colour cardboards and scissors and glue, and each group is expected to decide their own colour and make a hat in that colour.

 Phase 2

The students go to the school garden and draw a large human body model with chalk, similar to the one above.

As group voices, the students who are given cardboards written by the bone varieties wear the hats they made from the same colour card with their friends in their group.

And they wait separately from other groups.
Each group spokesperson stands out, revealing the specificities and locations of the bone variety given to them.

Phase 3

After each group’s spokesperson tells his/her own bone variety, it is expected that the students in that group will move to places where their bones are drawn.

(one for right and left arms for long bone, one for right and left legs, one student representing right and left hand fingers, one student representing right and left foot toes, 1 student on the skull for flat bone, one right and left for the shoulder blades, one right and one left for the chest, one right and one left to the hip bones,
one for right and left hand wrists for short bone, one for right and left ankles, 8 students for vertebrae)
It is expected that the students who pass the wrong time are first corrected by their group mates and pass through the right place.

Phase 4

After all the students have settled in, the teacher checks and corrects them if necessary.
Finally, the students are kept in hand, without leaving the places they are in, to realize that they have formed body integrity.