Science - more activities

• Build a spine. Make a model of a spine, including vertebrae, a spinal cord and ligaments to hold the vertebrae together. (possible materials, hollow pasta tubes, string, sticky tape, glue, paper strips or modelling material that hardens.
  
  
• Model a vertebra (each student could make one vertebra for a class spine) materials - modelling materials eg. clay.
  
  
• Draw a spine then add the rest of the skeleton
  
  
• Research further anatomy
  
  
• Invertebrates do not have spines. Write down 10 creatures do not have a spine. How do they support and protect their bodies? Where do the largest invertebrates live?
  
  
• Vertebrates - Draw the side view of 6 different shaped animals (eg. snake, giraffe, emu, koala, kangaroo, crocodile) Find out what their spines look like then draw them into your picture. What differences can you find in the shapes of their spines? Do they have the same number of bones in the spine? Are the bones different shapes?
  
  
• Spinosaurus is also the name of one of the larger dinosaurs? What did a Spinosaurus look like? Why was it called a Spinosaurus?