Skeletal System Lesson: Bones, Joints & Muscles, Grades 5-8 Human Body

Your body has over 600 muscles. So why does it need bones too? This lesson opens with that question and builds the skeletal system from it: five jobs of the skeleton (support, protection, movement, storage and making blood cells), eight main bones by name, and an adult skeleton of 206 bones.

What's inside

• 14 slides, with speaker notes on all 14
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page

Answer key included

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