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Your hunt starts with the easy stuff: the four bones of the knee. The bones Femur: This is the most superior of the bones with two condyles (rounded protuberances) at its inferior (distal) end. Write in "Femur" on the worksheet on the corresponding blank(s)...

If you attached circle stickers to your kit in Premarking the hunt items, now test how well you can identify these structures on your kit. On each circle sticker that you attached to your kit, write in the number corresponding to that structure from the word ...

Before you start exploring the function of your knee in other activities (e.g., how the knee moves, what each of the ligaments do), you’ll need some familiarity with its structure (i.e., its form). This activity will introduce you to the knee’s major connectiv...

For this activity you’ll need: The worksheet for this activity (either opened in a PDF viewer on a desktop/tablet computer or printed out). A Human Knee Active Learning Kit (Basic or Full model). You'll need at least the minimal number of muscles attac...

If your knee kit doesn’t already have stickers attached, you can start by marking all of the hunt items on your knee kit with blank stickers. Attaching stickers to your knee kit This will help you gain familiarity with the shapes and locations of the struc...

Time to complete Approximately 1-1.5 hours Age level Advanced high school, College, or Professional school Bloom's level(s) BL1 - Remember BL2 - Understand Learning objective After completing this activity, students will be ab...

To complete this scavenger hunt, use the hints in this guide and the wordbank on page 1 of the activity worksheet to fill in the blanks on pages 2-4 of the worksheet. Follow the hints in order- each hint builds off a previous one. Use the images on your worksh...

The following articles/books are references cited in this activity: Smith, Laura K et al. Brunnstrom’s Clinical Kinesiology. 5th ed. / revised by Laura K. Smith, Elizabeth Lawrence Weiss, L. Don Lehmkuhl. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis, 1996. Print. Chapter 9: Kn...

For this activity you’ll need: The worksheet for this activity (either opened in a PDF viewer on a desktop/tablet computer or printed out). A Human Knee Active Learning Kit (Mini, Basic, or Full model). For this activity, you can use either the ...

Many joints in your body move in complex ways and your knee is one of those joints. In this activity, you’ll figure out all the ways your knee can move and learn how to describe this motion using motion axes. Using motion axes will allow you to break down thes...

What is an axis of rotation (rotational motion axis)? Before figuring out how your knees move, you'll first need to understand the concept of motion axes. Motion axes can be used to describe any two objects moving relative to one another. Imagine for example, ...

Now that you understand motion axes, use your own knees (if you are able) to guess how many motion axes your knee has. To test out various motions, try moving your knees by standing with two feet on the ground and by sitting on a chair with your foot suspended...

As you found in the previous step, it's challenging to observe all the ways the knee can move from observing your own knee. Your knee kit reproduces all of the motions of a normal knee with magnitudes comparable to a healthy knee and allows you to observe dire...

The following articles/books are references cited in this activity: Pinskerova, V., & Vavrik, P. (2020). Knee anatomy and biomechanics and its relevance to knee replacement. In: Rivière C, Vendittoli PA, editors. Personalized hip and knee joint replacement,...

Time to complete Approximately 1-1.5 hours Age level Advanced high school, College, or Professional school Bloom's level(s) BL3 - Apply BL4 - Analyze BL5 - Evaluate Learning objective After completing this activity, student...