Chicken Leg Dissection

Mrs. Marker made a video of the class body projects.  Check it out!

Chicken Surgery

Today 5th Graders became "Chicken Surgeons"  This name seemed to put students in the right frame of mind as we cut muscle off bone!  Who wants to hear their surgeon yell, "EWWW! I am not touching that body!"

I am thankful that the cafeteria is serving chicken tomorrow, rather than today.  You may want to pack a lunch for tomorrow!

The chicken leg is a great model to illustrate how our own legs work.

We were amazed to actually see the tendons which connect the muscle to the bone!

The white tendon looks kind of like a rubber band and
attaches muscle to bone.

The hinge joint reminded us of a door hinge, as well as our arm paper fastener joint!  We also saw muscle pairs at work!

We were able to see the hinge joint (middle) and the ball and socket hip joint (ball on the left)

Brave students checked out the bone marrow and were surprised to learn that inside the bone is where blood cells are made!

We were amazed to learn blood cells are made inside our bones!

All in all, our chicken surgeons weren't chicken and  successfully dissected their chicken leg.  In "surgery"  they learned more about how our own body works.