Science Thursday: Animal Skeletons

Olga (science teacher and Acorn mom): We talked about the bones in the body in relation to animals, and how animals that walk similarly have similar bones. The kids got to compare the atlas vertebra, the scapula, and a random vertebra of  four different animals (deer, opossum, rat and fox) to see how they are alike and how they’re different. Finally the kids were able to examine all the bones from a dog skeleton and try to put them together going off of a picture of a constructed dog skeleton. The kids had good questions and had fun handling the bones.