Chapter 1: Getting the Energy your Body Needs

Technician’s notes 2.1.3 Analysing the skeleton

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Introduction
This is a demonstration to take a look at bones, which entails observing a large bone to look at marrow; this is
followed by a class investigation of measuring bone lengths and making calculations.

The following resources are needed for the class demonstration of the skeleton and bones
body model
large beef bone, cut to show the marrow
glass rod
The bone is used to show the marrow. Some of the marrow is then picked out using the glass rod to
show its texture.

The following resources are needed for the class practical, per group
tape measures or metre rules
graph paper
model femur or piece of wood to represent
femur (optional)
calculators

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