This unit plan is designed for an 8th grade class to learn about bones in the human body over 4 days. On day 1, students will learn basic bone information from a PowerPoint and label a bone diagram. Day 2 involves watching a "Bone Song" video and creating clay bone models. Day 3 has students play a "Whack-A-Bone" game and research calcium foods. Finally, on day 4 the class makes a poster of calcium foods and observes a chicken bone experiment related to calcium. The plan aims to teach bones' functions, calcium's role, and test comprehension with 85% accuracy.

1. CI 350 Unit Plan
Bones of the Body
By: Samantha Queen

2. Analyze the Learners
O My unit plan is designed for eighth grade
students approximately twelve to thirteen
years old.
O There will be twenty students in the class,
ten girls and ten boys.
O There is one girl with a broken leg.

3. Main Objective
O My students will identify major bones, the
functions of bones in the human body and
the role of calcium in maintenance of the
bones after viewing a PowerPoint
Presentation, a YouTube video, creating a
model bone, singing a song, playing a
computer game, and participating in a lab
in 4 days with 85% accuracy.

4. Day by Day
O Day 1- The students will view a PowerPoint
presentation with basic information about
bones and will be given a blank diagram with
a word bank to fill out to test their knowledge.
I will show them a life size skeleton model for
visualization.
O Day 2- The students will be shown a YouTube
video of the “Bone Song” in which they can
sing along. They will be given clay and a
specific bone to create that they will inform the
class of its primary purpose.

5. Day by Day
O Day 3- The students will play “Whack-A-
Bone” on the computer and will record their
scores. The students will use their books or
the internet to identify one food each with a
significant amount of calcium and will draw,
color and cutout that food item.
O Day 4- The foods that the students
discovered in the previous day will be
arranged and glued onto a poster board. In
groups, students will observe chicken legs
soaked in vinegar in jars in relation to calcium.

6. Technology Used
O I plan to use computers for YouTube, and
the bone identifier game and a projector.
O Other materials I plan to use are the
textbooks, clay, art supplies, skeleton
model, chicken bones and vinegar.

7. Works Cited
O "Bones, Bones, and More Bones." Bones, Bones, and
More Bones. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
<http://mypages.iit.edu/~smile/bi9711.html>.
O "Bones! Learn the Bones of the Human Body!" YouTube.
YouTube. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gerXkG_8ME.
O "Whack-A-Bone." Whack-A-Bone. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
<http://www.anatomyarcade.com/games/WAB/WAB.html
>.