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Let Your Backbone Slip Lab Questions

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This printable science worksheet for 3rd graders contains four fill-in-the-blank questions plus a bonus question following a hands-on lab activity about vertebrate backbones. Students explain what pipe cleaners, pasta, and candy represent in a model spine, and how flexibility and joints work together. Includes a word bank with terms like backbone, vertebrate, and flexible.

Subject:: Science
Topic:: Anatomy
Grade Level:: 3rd Grade
Updated October 2025

Word Bank

movement
vertebrate
backbone
flexible
together like a spine
connecting
joints

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