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 Competency Goals:: 4: The learner will conduct investigations and use appropriate technology to build an understanding of the form and function of the skeletal and muscle systems of the human body.
Objectives:
4.01: Identify the skeleton as a system of the human body. 4.02: Describe several functions of bones:
   Support.
   Protection.
   Locomotion. 4.03: Describe the functions of different types of joints:
   Hinge.
   Ball and socket.
   Gliding. 4.04: Describe how different kinds of joints allow movement and compare this to the movement of mechanical devices. 4.05: Observe and describe how muscles cause the body to move.