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Students get a lesson in bones
By Amy Schweitzer
amy.schweitzer@theindependent.com
Published: Friday, October 7, 2011 8:14 AM CDT
Nine-year-old Vivika Martinez grimaced a little when she saw an X-ray of a broken arm held together with screws.
Brian Dunagan, chiropractor at Grand Island Chiropractic Center, showed a picture of the human skeleton and explained what could happen when bones break when he visited the fourth- and fifth-grade English language acquisition class at West Lawn Elementary School on Thursday.
Students in Lisa Bales’ and Ashley Micek’s class have been studying the human body using their "On Our Way to English" materials. The students have learned many of the organ systems and are now wrapping up with the skeletal system, the teachers said. Dunagan’s visit was a way to help the students retain what they had learned in class.
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