You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Yr 3 bone labels and Yr 4 task sheets
- Vertebrate or Invertebrate? Task
- Teaching, 5 lives and skeleton puppet PowerPoints
- Vertebrate or invertebrate game sheet
- Teachers’ notes
Additional Resources
- A glove puppet, plastic gloves and scissors
- An old clean animal bone
- Plastic gloves, scissors and masking tape
- Game sheet for each hockey player group
- A piece of string (about 3m) and Plasticine or sticky tack
- Card printouts of skeleton puppet template
- Stiff black card (an A4 sheet per puppet) and masking tape
- Soft white art crayons or white oil pastels
- 1m of strong thread and 8 split pins per skeleton
- 2 garden sticks per skeleton (40-50cm is ideal)
Weblinks
Film on human skeleton with other animals from www.bbc.co.uk
Film clip on invertebrate with exoskeletons from www.bbc.co.uk