Hannah Bones

Monday, we cut bones.

Wednesday, we put our bones together to form a skeleton.

We named our skeleton Hannah Bones. Our skeleton was not white; it's bones were colored in all shades of the rainbow.

Our students during our second Med Teach session got creative during the bones activity, coloring the bones all sorts of color. When we assembled our skeleton from the skull to the toes, we made sure to make Hannah Bones bend some joints to do a skeleton dance.

Ah, how I miss the days of coloring. I actually colored the ribs with those big Crayola crayons. I was definitely out of my element, struggling to color in the lines and being outpaced by my students.

During the lesson, we had an opportunity to teach kindergartners about bones and muscles, an exciting lesson that allow students to move their joints, wiggle (to pretend like they had no bones) and play some games (to simulate what it would be like to have no joints). Just think how you would eat or brush your teeth if your arms were completely straight.

Here is something I learned during the development of our lesson. Did you know that humans and giraffes both have the same number of bones in their neck? Guess how many? 7 bones in their necks.

Giraffes obviously have larger bones, which explains the long neck.

Just thought I'd share a cool fact that makes interesting conversation for cocktail parties (feel free to use this one) or in a kindergarten classroom.