Unit 6 Reflection

What is a skeleton's favorite instrument?
A tromBONE!

Besides the puns, in this unit we learned about the skeletal system and its functions in the body. We explored the different bones and their locations in the body, then went deeper and explored the hormones and structure that affect the bones themselves. By completing labs such as the Owl Pellet Dissection Lab where we got to apply what we had learned and try to reconstruct a skeleton from a Barn Owl pellet.

We learned how the bones connected to each other in different ways. One of the things that I was surprised about was that the teeth are actually connected by joints. Immovable joints, but it was interesting to expand what the word joint meant to me, since before I only thought that joints were movable. 

This unit was really interesting to learn about. There were so many dysfunctions in the skeletal system that I was unaware about, like kyphosis and lordosis. It was also really cool to see everything relate back to having good health and keeping a healthy diet, since conditions like osteoporosis can arise from things like smoking and poor diet and exercise.

I would want to learn more about the diseases that can affect the skeletal system, and go into not only the reasons why they are caused but also the ways that people can recover from them, and if there is a recovery plan at all. By applying it more to the real world I think that it would help us remember a lot of the technical details of the systems and really bring the unit together.

I've sort of been failing at my New Year's goals. I promised myself that I would get more sleep, but turns out the amount of sleep I've been getting has dropped. On the other hand, I'm really excited about by 20 Time project of creating a coloring book and I can't wait to get into that in more detail and go through the process of creating something from scratch.