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What is the Skeletal System? Lesson PlanWhat is the Skeletal System? Lesson Plan
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What is the Skeletal System?

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Students investigate the human skeletal system. In this biology lesson, students trace the outline of their body onto butcher paper and fill in the names of the bones. Students use an overhead transparency of the human skeletal system to check their work.

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the skeletal system, human body systems, bones, skeletons

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human skeleton, skeletal system, science
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Grade
4th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Duration
1 hr
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Project-Based Learning
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