Planning Questions (not to be answered on the blog, just used to build the joint and to explain it in the video):
Directions for the Blog Post:
1. Create your video explaining all the parts of your elbow joint and demonstrating how it works. Upload it to YouTube.
2. Embed your YouTube video at the top of a blog post entitled, "Creating an Elbow Joint."
3. Below it, answer the following reflection/synthesis questions:
- What will you use for bones?
- How many bones will you have?
- What will you use to attach your bones together (ligaments)?
- What will you use for muscles?
- How many muscles will you have?
- How will you attach your muscles to your bones (tendons)?
- What will you use to cushion the bones at the elbow joint (cartilage)?
- How will you prevent your elbow from hyper-extending?
Directions for the Blog Post:
1. Create your video explaining all the parts of your elbow joint and demonstrating how it works. Upload it to YouTube.
2. Embed your YouTube video at the top of a blog post entitled, "Creating an Elbow Joint."
3. Below it, answer the following reflection/synthesis questions:
- How many bones did your model need? How many muscles did it need?
- How were your pretend muscles similar and different to real muscles?
- What would happen if the ligaments of the models were overstretched or torn? How would it affect the way the models could operate?
- Explain what ligaments, tendons, and cartilage are.
- What made this activity fun?
- What made this activity challenging?