Grade: Subject: Expedition Unit:

Standards

Learning Targets

All Resources
1.Wellness: Musculoskeletal System - Google Slides
2.Interconnections:Musculoskeletan System - Google Slides

Day 1: Wellness
Hook:(5 mins)
Slide 2 -Wellness: Musculoskeletal System - Google Slides
Asks the students what is it?

Slide 3 - explains

Instructions:(30 mins) Note taking required across the presentation.

Step 1: Slides 4-8 - Talk about various injuries to the musculoskeletal system. The slides are self-
explanatory.

Step 2 - Vaidehi’s story - Read Aloud

Connect the story to aspects of wellness - physical, social, emotional, intellectual
extremely active and an outdoor loving 13 year old.- physical wellness
numerous friends who were equally active just like her - social wellness
Every evening, Vaidehi and her friends would meet and cycle together in the society- social wellness
Connect the above examples to emotional wellness as well.

Focus on Vaidehi’s injury and talk about the wellness aspects associated there:
A fractured clavicle and a hairline fracture in the ankle had put Vaidehi on bed rest for at least 8 weeks. -
physical wellness
Elicit from the students other aspects as well. How do you think it made Vaidehi feel? How do you think it
will impact her daily routine and her time with friends? Make sure students are able to bring out the
interconnectedness of the wellness aspects. How the other aspects are affected if one aspect is
low.

Q1. What steps should Vaidehi have taken to avoid the crash? Q2. What steps could she have taken to
avoid fracture/injury? Popcorn responses.
To be followed by notebook work (slide 11) and class discussion.

Step 3 - Ever wonder how our bones heal? Take them through slide 5. Bring to the understanding that
although bones begin to heal within a week, it can take several months for complete healing to happen.
Encourage them to share personal experiences with any bone related or sports related injuries. What
happened? What did you do next?

Closure/HOTS/Synthesis: (10 mins)

Slide 12 - Vaidehi is an avid cyclist. What’s some advice you would give her to take better care of her
body? Be as creative as you want but make sure that you include specific preventive steps that you’ve
learnt today in your work. Students will do this in their notebook (can be given as HW). Good samples
can be put up on the classroom boards as well.

CFU/Exit Tickets:

Day 2: Interconnections
Hook:(2 mins)

Slide 1 and 2 of Interconnections:Musculoskeletal System - Google Slides

Your musculoskeletal system includes your bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and connective tissues.
This system works to help you stand, sit, walk, run and move.
So, how do these movements happen inside the body?

Instructions:

(10 mins)

T to take students through slides 3-9.

N.B. Work - Students note their understanding of how movement happens, connection with blood,
connection with other body systems.

Closure/HOTS/Synthesis:
Students answer this Q in their notebook - Explain how the skeletal system is connected to the other
body systems.

CFU/Exit Tickets: