Gross, Digusting, and Incredibly Educational

Over the past few days, the students have been learning about the skeleton.  Here are two key points they will be able to tell you:

1.  A typical, full-grown adult human skeleton has about ______ bones.
2.  The skeleton offers three main functions:  ________, _________, and ________.

With that being said, on Wednesday, the students were shown pictures of a variety of skeletons:  a horse, cow, chameleon, bird, and frog were a few of them.  Most were able to guess with a high accuracy what the animal was (due to the skeletal shape).  After establishing the importance of a skeleton and the implications for an animal's shape, the students were given owl pellets!

Writing detailed descriptions before dissection

After close inspection on Wednesday, the students FINALLY were able to dissect them today.  Tomorrow, the kids will reconstruct the skeletal remains, and we will hang them on display in the room during next week!  Stop in to see some skulls, vertebrae, jaws, and femur bones!

Woah!  Is this gross, cool, or both!?!