Throughout the week of February 24-28, Biology students began learning about animal systems. There are various systems that need to work together in order to keep an organism alive, one of those being the animal organ systems.
Students practiced classifying the different parts of an organ system by drawing a picture of an animal, describing and labeling the different parts of the organ system, and answering questions such as how does this organ system interact with other systems, is this organ system the same or different than human organ systems, what might change in an animal's internal or external environment, and how would its systems allows it to maintain homeostasis.
Students worked in groups of three of four and each chose a different animal to draw. Once they drew their picture, labeled the parts of the organ system, and answered the questions, they presented their drawing to the class while the other groups took notes.
Later in the class, students were able to look and examine bones. Each group had a plate of five to six different bones and were tasked with identifying the structures within the bones. They also needed to answer questions such as what are the five functions of bones, what structures would we look for to support these functions, how does the skeletal system interact with other organ systems, and what structures do they need to interact together.