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Young scholars create and construct human skeletons by rubbing casts of bone impressions on paper, and then label most important components of human skeleton.

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the skeletal system, human body systems, bones

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bones, human skeleton, science
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Grade
3rd - 8th
Subjects
Science
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For Teacher Use
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Project-Based Learning
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