The human skeleton is a frame made of bones and cartilage. It protects vital organs and helps the body maintain its shape. When mature, the human skeleton has 206 bones. The largest bone in the body is the femur. Learning about the human body is part of most educational systems today in the world as it is essential to understanding our own physical and mental health as well as our own body's
. structures as well.When teaching children about the human body and the skeleton, using worksheet lesson plans is helpful as they give the students a visual representation of the body while also helping them to memorize specific body parts and the locations of the bones and cartilage.Enchanted Learning is one website for worksheets for students of all ages including lessons on the human body and its skeleton. The following link is a great worksheet for children of the human skeleton: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/skeleton/Labelskeleton.shtml. This particular worksheet from Enchanted Learning shows the skeleton, unlabeled, and leaves and area where a child would fill in the appropriate name for bones.Another website that includes a downloadable ".pdf" (portable document format) file that is a skeleton worksheet is Home Training Tools' website (http://www.hometrainingtools.com/skeleton-coloring-page/a/1450/). Home Training Tools' site is complete with multiple subjects of worksheets for those who are homeschooling their children and for educators looking for additional lesson plans for the classroom. The downloadable skeleton worksheet from Home Training Tools includes the most commonly known bones in the human body from the "femur" and "skull" to the "pelvis" and "rib cage" to help the children to understand the proper locations and names of these bones. The PDF file requires users to have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat to open and print it for use in the classroom. Home Training Tools' worksheet also allows the children to cut out the bones to connect them, making a full skeleton replica. More reference links: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/skeleton/Labelskeleton.shtml http://www.hometrainingtools.com/skeleton-coloring-page/a/1450/
