Rosa Fuster Vaquer I.E.S.

Isidor Macabich

CLIL LESSON PLAN: THE SKELETON

LEVEL: 3r ESO
AIMS:

BIOLOGY: Knowing one’s own body, specially the skeleton whose vocabulary is
difficult to study.
Valuing one’s own body and understanding the need of healthy habits.

LANGUAGE: Building vocabulary about human body (main bones of the skeleton)

OTHER: Labelling key words on a picture; jumbling and reordering words; matching
key words and definitions, memorizing key words, using the visual and spatial
intelligence.
Checking and judging classmates, explaining mistakes and recognizing our
memory limits.

TEACHING OBJECTIVES:

CONTENT

- Bones
- The skeleton function of protection

COMMUNICATION

- Listening and writing

COGNITION

- Memorizing key words

- Reordering jumbled letters
- Finding out words in a crossword
- Identifying bones
- Transferring key language

CULTURE

- Knowing one’s own body

OUTCOMES:

At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:

- Identify the main bones of the skeleton
- Recognize protection as one of the most important function of the skeleton
- Value one’s own body and understand the need of healthy habits
- Judge, justify and argue mistakes by giving reasons
TASKS PLANNED AND TIMING

- First step: Students will be asked to study the skeleton that they have in their
book, or the drawing given carefully. They have to memorize as many as
bones as they can, paying attention to their position in the skeleton. (10 min.)
- Second step: Students will be provided with a drawing of the skeleton with 20
gaps. They will have to label it in 5 minutes. They should write in blue ink.
- Third step: Then, the teacher will dictate the name of the 20 bones in the
gaps slowly. Students will have to identify and locate them in the template
given. They should write in black ink. It is planned for 10 minutes.
- Fourth step: The exercise will be collected and handed out randomly. Each
student has to correct the exercise of a classmate in red ink. They will verify
the results and correct any spelling mistake.
- Fifth step: Each pupil works out the mark of his/her classmate and will explain
his/her mistakes.
- Sixth step: Students will practise the vocabulary learnt with the exercises
given: bones jumbled letters, matching bones and definitions, filling in the
gaps of a text, and painting the two main parts of our skeleton after having
read their definition. They can finish them as a homework and will be
corrected in class.

RESOURCES

- The book of Biology and Geology, where we can find a skeleton plate
- A photocopy for labelling a skeleton (the same as before but with 20 gaps)
- The sheet designed, with exercises
- Blue, black and red pens

ASSESSMENT

- Homework will be suitable marked

- Students will be asked to asses each other.

EVALUATION

- Each correct word written in blue will count 0,5 points

- Each correct word written in black ink will count 0,3 points
 THE SKELETON Name:....................................................
Rosa Fuster Vaquer
rfuster@educacio.caib.es Date:.......................................................

1. The words have been jumbled. What are they?

Match each word in the second column.

Number
Jumbled
Correct word of Definition
word definition
1. They are the bones in the head of a person or an animal
EBNAOCKB
2. It is the line of bones down the back of your body.
EAALLTP
Synonym: spine
3. It is one of the bone around your chest
UMREF
4. It is a long, flat bone located in the center of the thorax
LUKLS
(chest). It connects to the rib bones. Also called breastbone.
5. It is the final segment of the human backbone. It is
ELCIVALC
commonly referred to as the tailbone.
6. They are the individual irregular bones that make up the
RETUMNS
spine
7. In humans, it is the longest, most voluminous, and
BIR
strongest bone
8. It is a double-curved short bone that connects the arm to
CYCXCO
the body
9. Finger bone
EPGHNALA
10. It is a thick, triangular bone which articulates with the
RBAETREV femur and covers and protects the front of the knee joint.
Also called the kneecap

2. Fill in the gaps with the words in the box

sternum respectively heart tarsals brain clavicle knee spine

The skeleton protects many vital organs.

- The skull protects the ………., the eyes and the middle and inner ears
- The ………..protects the spinal cord
- The rib cage, spine and …………. protect the lungs, ………… and major blood vessels
- The ………….and scapula protect the shoulder
- The ilium and spine protect the digestive and urogenital systems and the hip
- The patella and the ulna protect the ………. and the elbow …………….
- The carpals and …………. protect the wrist and ankle respectively.
3. The axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton form the complete skeleton

Read the definitions given and paint the axial skeleton in blue and the appendicular skeleton
in red.

The axial skeleton consists of the 80 bones in the

head and trunk of the human body. It is composed of
five parts; the human skull, the ossicles of the inner
ear, the hyoid bone of the throat, the chest, and the
vertebral column.

The appendicular skeleton consists of 126 bones in

the human body which makes motion possible and
protects the organs of digestion, excretion, and
reproduction. The word appendicular refers to an
appendage or anything attached to a major part of the
body, such as the upper and lower extremities.

4. Can you recognize them? Then, look for them in the puzzle.

A F E T O I C Y H N K L H Y D S V B

D E R F F G L A C E N O B B K C A B

P D I D R T A S U R J V C K C W V N

S A D A J U V B A F S E T O P Y E A

C L T A H S I A M V I B H T E A R T

C R V E O M C E A S C A P U L A T E

A E I O L Z L W D B Y H G A O S E I

M H J K S L E O L H M N O W I T B A

A S E M P H A L A N G E S K Q A R U

C Z A R E T Y U B N O L I W A S A N