5th Grade Body Systems: Bones and Skeletons Lesson 6

5th Grade Body Systems Unit Blueprint

Lesson 6: Mystery Bone Groups

Bones and Skeletons
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Pacing Suggestions:
Day 1- Getting Started (page 83) and discussion on classification (see Tips & first section of Exploring and Discovering on page 84)
Day 2- Exploring and Discovering (pages 84 & 84)

Teacher Resources:
Tips	Comparing Bones Warm-Up Questions (Optional Sheet) (Microsoft^® Word^®) Comparing Bones Warm-Up Questions (Optional Sheet) (Adobe^® Reader^® PDF)

Essential & Unit Questions ¹

Benchmarks ²

Formative and Summative Assessments ³

Using Assessments to Facilitate and Monitor Student Learning

Insights Bones and Skeletons

How are systems within a human like systems in an animal?

6A(6-8)#1: Like other animals, human beings have body systems for obtaining and providing energy, defense, reproduction, and the coordination of body functions.

5A(3-5)#2 Features used for grouping depend on the purpose of the grouping.

Student notebook entry "Comparing Bones" and class discussion. (See page 83 in teacher's guide.)

Can they compare and contrast human bones with other animal bones?

Completion of groupings of mystery object bones according to bone groups.

Possible Journal Prompt: In Lesson 2 you divided your bones up into groups. If you are trying to put a skeleton together, are the groupings you made in Lesson 2 or today better? Why?

Can students apply knowledge from the study of human bones to classify bones from their mystery object?
Do students recognize the benefit of grouping the bones by "bone groups" rather than size or shape?

1. For conceptual benchmarks.
2. Bolded sections indicate portion of benchmark addressed
3. Unless noted as a Summative Assessment, the assessments are formative and should be used to guide teaching and learning.