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Studying bones

September 14, 2013 Ticia 5 Comments

learning first aid for broken bones

This week we continued our study of broken bones, since we’ve learned how important bones are to our body, and what the different parts of the bone do (when we made our play dough bone model), now it’s time to learn first aid for broken bones.

I took inspiration from Angellicscalliwags again, and used her bone first aid lesson.

Fist I made a quick printable reference for the kids about different injuries: broken bone, dislocated bone, and sprain.  Which apparently I did not save, so I won’t be sharing that with you…….  Sigh.

what to do for a broken bone

Then we acted out what to do.  The treatment for a broken bone and for a dislocated bone is remarkably similar, so I’ll spare you the different pictures.  The kids loved getting a chance to both play the injured person, AND the person taking care of them.  Though, I don’t think I’d really want my kids to treat me if I were injured, they’re a little over eager.

practice first aid for sprains

Then we practiced first aid for a sprain, which is what the kids were really looking forward to, pretending to wrap an ace bandage on someone, or themselves, why yes that sounds very fun.  We practiced this several times, because this is actually one they will probably have to do at some point in their lives, or several times depending on how accident prone they are…  Knowing my kids, several.  We emphasized how you need to keep the pressure even, and make sure you give extra support to the ankle.

 

This was of course their favorite part of the lesson.

labeling a skeleton

They weren’t as big of a fan of labeling a skeleton, because that required actual writing.  I think they’ll like it better when we put together a paper skeleton next week and they get to play a game with it.  Then they’ll enjoy it.

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I leave you with this cute picture of Princess reading.  Because I like it, no other reason.

 

STEM 3rd grade, anatomy

Comments

  1. MaryAnne @ mama smiles says

    September 14, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    Brave kids are awesome. I hope you feel better soon!

    Reply
  2. Hwee says

    September 15, 2013 at 3:48 am

    Hope you feel better soon!

    Reply
  3. Phyllis at All Things Beautiful says

    September 15, 2013 at 8:33 am

    Oh, dear. I am so sorry you are feeling so poorly. {hugs} I will pray that you will begin to feel better right now.

    Reply
  4. Natalie says

    September 15, 2013 at 9:23 am

    Feel better soon! We were slacking on science lately, as it requires a chunk of time we simply don’t have.

    Reply

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