Classroom Teacher Integrated

1. Arrange students in single file lines of no more than four.

2. Place a set of skeleton bone patterns in front of each group at the opposite end of the playing area.

3. Instruct each group member to use a specific locomotor skill (drawn from the stack at the front of each line, you must draw the skill on top and move in the specified manner to get to the specified bone listed on your sheet) to move to the "pile of bones" to get the specified piece of the skeleton and the label required and return to the group. If someone in your group has trouble identifying the particular bone, one person from the group may go and help out until the correct bone is found.

Examples of tasks include:

• Jump in a zig-zag path to the neck bones
  
• Run sideways to pick up the rib cage bones
  
• Hop on your left foot to pick up the ilium bones and hop on your right foot back to the group
  
• Bear Walk to pick up the humerus bone
  
• Crab Walk to pick up the humerus bone
  
• Gallop to pick up the ulna & radius bones
  
• Roll to pick up the ulna & radius bones
  
• Crawl to pick up the femur bone
  
• Move sideways at a low level to pick up the femur bone
  
• Run in a curved pathway to pick up the tibia bone
  
• Leap to pick up the tibia bone
  
• Spin to pick up the metatarsal bones
  
• Do a grapevine step to pick up the metatarsal bones
  
• Step-Hop to pick up the metacarpal bones
  
• Walk quickly to pick up the metacarpal bones
  

4. When all of the bones have been collected, group members assemble the bones according to the arrangement in the human skeleton with the labels beside each bone. When your group is complete yell out "We've got them Bones"and be seated until everyone is finished.

Grade Level Modifications

For older students:

• separate bones of the spinal column into cervical, thoracic and lumbar;
  
• separate ribs from sternum; do not write names on bones and ask students to name the bones.
  

For younger students:

• do not separate individual bones of the arms and legs; keep clavicle, sternum and ribs together as one piece;
  
• cut shapes of individual bones into jigsaw pieces and let each group assemble just one bone.