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Science Y1 – Animal movement – week 2

BONES AND JOINTS

Truth to Teach (Source)
To help the children become more aware of bones and joints, and to show
how they facilitate movement.

Way to Work (Means)
1. Draw the distinction between people and animals, but explain that

people move just as animals move.
Explore how our bodies move. e.g. legs, hands, eyes. Some parts of
our bodies do not move e.g. ears, hair, nails.
How do living creatures move? Let’s find out.

2. Ask a child to put on a coat, then take it off; letting the coat drop
on the floor. Our bodies would be like the coat if we did not have

our skeleton. We would be floppy.
Skeletons also protect delicate parts of our bodies. (The wisdom
of God's design.)

3. Our bodies do not just consist of bones, otherwise we would be
stiff all the time. (A doll may help illustrate what it would be like

with no joints.) Everywhere you can bend or move indicates where a
joint is.

4. Hinge joints - elbows, knees, fingers. Ball and socket joints – hip,
shoulder.
Make a hinge joint out of cardboard and sellotape. How could we
make it better? Thread? Paper fastener?

Make a ball and socket joint out of a stick and plasticene ball,
fitting the ball into half a tennis ball.

5. Relate this to animals. Vertebrates, invertebrates. Backbone, spine.
It may be possible to obtain X-rays of animals from a vet, or X-rays
of human beings from a hospital.

6. Help children appreciate the wonder of God's handiwork. (Psalm 104: 24)

Unrelated Ideas

Fish bones - very different in size to ‘normal’ ones.
Mentioning food rich in calcium for growing bones.
The shape of bones – cylindrical

Learning for Life (Fulfilment)
The children will have learnt about how bones and joints facilitate movement.
They will have seen more of God’s creative genius.
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