This document outlines a 5th grade unit on the locomotor system that will teach students about the musculoskeletal system through three lessons. The lessons will introduce students to bones and muscles, have them identify bones in a skeleton, and relate muscles to bones through activities like building a skeleton and an archaeological dig in the playground. The overall objectives are for students to learn the names of bones and muscles and be able to identify them.
2. In this unit we are going to learn:
The musculoskeletal system.
Bones.
Muscles.
3. Block 3. Health and personal
development.
Functioning of the Human Body. Anatomy and
Physiology. Systems.
Objectives.
To know the names of bones and muscles.
To recognize them in a skeleton.
To be able to identify bones out of the skeleton.
To use ICTs for searching information.
5. Lesson 1.
Discussion with the children about what they
have found in Internet.
Our new classmate.
Explanation of what the
Musculoskeletal system is.
6. Lesson 2. Bones.
Our scaffold.
Cranium
Mandible
Clavicle
Ribs
Humerus
Spinal
column
Radius
Ulna
Pelvis
Femur
Tibia
Sternum
Fibula
We can also hang
labels in our class
skeleton.