Program Objectives: With our teaching staff, students will:

• Identify the location of their skeleton and demonstrate the reasons for having one.
• Compare human and animal skeletons and discuss how the differences affect appearance and abilities.
• Identify the bones in a human skeleton.
• Discuss ways they can keep their bones healthy.
• Describe what happens if they break a bone.

1. Duplicate the skeleton pages for each child to cut out and assemble with brass fasteners.  They can then move and position the skeletons however they wish and display them in the room.
2. Conduct a “thumbless morning” experiment.  Tape students’ thumbs across their palms and see how it affects their ability to function.  Make a list later of things that were difficult to do without thumbs.  Do you see why having thumbs is such an important part of our body plan?