Health Education - 4th Grade
Strand 6: HUMAN DEVELOPMENT (HD) Standard 4.HD.1:
Students will learn an overview of the skeletal system. The students will make a functional "robotic" hand.
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Students will understand how bones move by discussing it and also by recreating it.
Engage: Show robot video
Discuss: Introduction question of what students think is going on inside their hands when they move their fingers.
Video: Of how things need structure.
Discuss: Have the students find their joints at different parts of their body. Explain about tendons and how the joints move.
Discuss: With the students ask how they would go about creating a robot hand.
Activity: Robot Hand
Have materials already done. If special needs then accommodate accordingly.
Go throughout different parts of the body identifying different bones and their scientific names.