Name ____________________

Bag o’ Bones

Directions:
1. There are 5 bags of bones. Each bag contains bones from a different location in this
particular animal.
2. Examine a bag of bones. You will have to take them out of the bag (be careful because
they are real).
3. Draw at least one bone from each bag. Perhaps you want to draw the bone that gives
away the location in the body.
4. Label the parts of the bone that you know.
5. In the space provided on this sheet you will answer the following questions:
a. Where are these bones located in this animal?
b. Why do you think the bones belong in that particular location?
c. Which bones are present and which bones are missing?
6. Upon completing this lab you need to decide the animal that these bones belong.

Data and Analysis:

BAG O’ BONES #1
Drawing BAG O’ BONES #2
Drawing

Where are these bones located?

Where are these bones located?
Justify your answer.
Justify your answer.

Which bones are present?

Which bones are present?

Which bones are missing?

Which bones are missing?
BAG O’ BONES #3 BAG O’ BONES #4
Drawing Drawing

Where are these bones located? Where are these bones located?

Justify your answer. Justify your answer.

Which bones are present? Which bones are present?

Which bones are missing? Which bones are missing?

What type of animal do

these bones belong to? BAG O’ BONES #5
WHY? Drawing

Where are these bones located?

Justify your answer.

Which bones are present?

Which bones are missing?