Topic of Lesson: Living Bones
Subject Area: Health and Science
Time: Two 45-60 minute sessions (could be one lesson, depends on how the time is used)
Health Education Objectives: SWBAT identify what happens when a bone breaks and to discuss the healing process of a broken bone. Students will also be able to identify proper safety equipment and be able to physically its proper use.
This objective fulfills:
EXPECTATION 1, Students will demonstrate ways in which they can enhance and maintain their health and well-being.
EXPECTATION 2, Students will understand and demonstrate behaviors that prevent disease and speed recovery from illness.
EXPECTATION 3, Students will practice behaviors that reduce the risk of becoming involved in potentially dangerous situations and react to potentially dangerous situations in ways that help to protect their health.
EXPECTATION 8, Students will identify information, products, and services that may be
helpful or harmful to their health.
Expectations follow the CA state Health Framework for California Public Schools.
Student Information: A bone may not look like alive, but it is made of living cells. Some of these cells are the hard outer coating of the bone. Inside, the bone cells are soft like a sponge. You can break a bone. The bone hurts and will swell near the break. The skin often bruises. A doctor will line up the broken bone so it can heal straight. It is the cells that strengthen and heal the break.
Materials: diagram of a bone (showing the inside of the bone), x-rays showing broken bones, safety equipment (bicycle helmet, knee pads, elbow pads, football shoulder pads, etc.)
Procedures: Ask if anyone in the class has ever had a broken bone. Discuss how the accidents happened, their experiences at the hospital, time in a cast, how the incident changed what they could do. Show the x-rays. Discuss which bone might be shown in the x-ray and the trauma to the bone. Show the safety equipment and discuss which bone(s) it protects.
Assessment: Safety Posters (In cooperative groups, have the students show children engaged in activities and wearing the proper safety equipment. Include a safety rule or comment on each poster.) Journal Entry (Creative Writing - Write the story of a person who breaks his or her leg. Tell how the accident happens and how this event changes this person's daily life.)
Music Connection: Sing a song about bones with your class. Choose one or more of the following:
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