Human anatomy can be a difficult subject for students to grasp. Hillcrest High School teacher Ms. Carissa Fetig made it exciting and engaged students by creating a small scale human skeleton out of simple Q-tips. “Assembling an anatomically correct skeleton is an excellent way to understand how the body is put together,” said Ms. Fetig. The human skeleton system forms the frame for the body and makes up about one- fifth of the body’s weight. It is made up of 206 bones. This makes it easier to visualize the body as a whole by constructing a model than by looking at a page in a textbook. By merging science and art, the students absorb the information and understand anatomy. The students followed up the activity by learning about the functions of the bones, the make-up of the bones, and how joints connect the bones.
