We are going to be learning a lot of osteology in this course! By the end you will have memorized the name of almost every bone in the body and a number of different parts and features of the bones
This can be over whelming, but we are a team and we will work together to get everyone doing the best they can
You can find the lab handout for Human Osteology Terms and Images that we will be using in lab here. You will need to know all these terms, what bones they refer to and which parts of the bones they refer to- this is a lot of work and memorization. We will spend time in lab on this but out of class work will be needed. I am sharing this now in case you wanted to get a head start.
Over the years of teaching Human Osteology I have found many helpful resources which I am sharing here. I am sure you will find many others as well- do let me know and I will update this list!
Online Osteology Books
The Bone Book : a photographic lab manual for identifying and siding human bones An online lab manual available as an ebook through the Camosun library for bone identification and siding.
Introduction to Human Osteology. An open access osteology textbook with drawings and photographs of the bones.
Osteology. An online eBook chapter from the OER textbook Explorations, that goes over the skeleton and the major features describing where everything is etc.
Camosun Library Resources
The Camosun library has a ton of awesome things to help you with the osteology. They have plastic skeleton boxes and colourful skulls that you can take out for a few hours and practice.
They also have Anatomy TV which is an awesome image-based database with three-dimensional (3D) interactive models.
Websites of various kinds
Pictures/Tools
eSkeletons. Really great real bone pictures of the human skeleton. You can look at different views (superior, lateral etc).
Grey’s Anatomy Link to an online version of this seminal text. Amazing line drawings of all bones with many labels
Bone Broke A blog site with a ton of useful hints and tips for siding and remembering features.
Lumen Bone Box An older site but clear pictures and some labels.
I have also found really good images at Teach Me Anatomy, and Anatomy Standard
Games
Whack-A-Bone Older online game reviewing bone names and locations. Looks like they had some planned updates that never materialized
Skeleton Viewer Game A game of identifying various skeletal elements
Apps
There are many more apps if you look through various app stores. Often different apps will have different body parts for free so you can get the whole skeleton for free.
Osteology Colouring Books
Anatomy Coloring Book Wynn Kapit Lawrence M. Elson Pearson 2013 1-pages-2.pdf
Other Hints and Tips
Draw the bones- drawing them from scratch really makes you think about what it looks like and what the pieces are called. Your drawings are study tools not works of art so don’t worry if they don’t actually look like the bone to anyone else.
Build the bones out of playdough
Search on SketchFab and Google images for more examples of each bone so that you see the variation in normal skeletal populations
Check out quizlet or other flash card type sites- many people have built flashcard series you can use
Or create your own set of flash cards