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Bone Transformations

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Students create a picture from the shape of a bone. For this life science and art lesson, students discuss their bones and their purposes, then use a picture of a bone as a starting point for an artistic transformation. Lesson can be used to introduce a unit on the human body.

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the skeletal system, human body systems

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art and science, human body, skeletal system, science
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3rd - 4th
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Science
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