Boney Research - Grade 2

Second graders took notes for the first time in library, listening to Dem Bones by Bob Barner and learning such information as:

• Where is your patella? 
• How many vertebrae are in your spine? 
• Where is your clavicle? 
• How many bones are in your foot? 
• Which bone is the longest? 

Then we created a list of questions they had about bones and practiced using a table of contents to find the answers. Here are some of the facts they learned:

• A muscle that moves a bone can only work one way. 
• An unset broken bone may cut muscle. 
• A broken thigh bone might need a steel plate and screw to hold it together. 
• Your bones come together at joints. 
• Joints have different names. One kind is a ball and socket.

And here they are at work: