Describe the Structure of the Human Skeleton

Did you know we have roughly 206 bones in our body?!

These 206 bones fit together to form our skeleton.

Our bones are pretty awesome; believe it or not, they’re actually living! I guess when we think of bones, we tend to think of bones that have been dead and buried for thousands of years, like dinosaur bones! Bones are living because they can grow and if we were to accidentally break, or fracture a bone, it would be able to repair itself. 

The bones in our skeleton are all important of course, but some of the main bones to remember are our vertebrae which are small bones that make up our backbone, the rib cage in our chest, our skull and the femur in our thigh. The femur is actually the longest bone in the body!

Can you find these bones in the image above?

In this activity, we're going to look at how our skeleton is arranged.