Curated OER
Kids Health: Childhood Cancer
This article gives information about childhood cancer and its most common cause, genetic mutation. Treatment information is also included.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Bone Classification
This site helps you understand how the 206 bones that compose the adult skeleton are divided into five categories based on their shapes.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Divisions of the Skeletal System
The following site helps us understand the divisions of the skeletal system. The skeletal system consists of all of the bones, cartilages, and ligaments of the body that support and give shape to the body and body structures.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Osgood Schlatter Disease
If you're an active teenager and you frequently experience pain in joints such as your knees, you may have Osgood-Schlatter Disease. Find out more about the signs, symptoms, and treatment in this article. Links to similar sites are also...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Osteomyelitis
Did you know that bacteria can infect bones? Osteomyelitis is when bacteria infects a bone through a wound or through the blood stream. Signs, symptoms, and treatments are included in this site. Links to related articles are also available.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Strains and Sprains Are a Pain
In addition to describing how one might get a strain or sprain, this article offers well-organized, clear advice for those caring for their sprained or strained muscles. Links to related information included.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Have you ever heard of carpal tunnel syndrome? It is a condition that affects your wrist and fingers. Numbness and pain in these areas are results of carpal tunnel syndrome. Read more to learn about the causes of this syndrome, and how...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Skeletal Muscles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the structure of skeletal muscles and how they move bones.
National Institutes of Health
The Nih Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases: National Resource Center
The NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases ~ National Resource Center provide patients, health professionals, and the public with an important link to resources and information on metabolic bone diseases. The mission of NIH ORBD~NRC...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Super Skeletons
Learn more about the bones that make up your internal framework. This site provides learning opportunities through games, experiments, activities, and songs.
Read Works
Read Works: About Your Bones
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the skeletonThis passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
Read Works
Read Works: Bare Bones
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the bones of a human skeleton. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Structure of Bones
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the cells and tissues that make up bones.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Keeping Bones and Joints Healthy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] You can help keep your bones and skeletal system healthy by eating well and getting enough exercise. Weight-bearing exercises help keep bones strong. Learn more...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Human Skeletal System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How important is your skeleton? Can you imagine your body without it? You would be a wobbly pile of muscle and internal organs, and you would not be able to move....
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Kidshealth: Broken Bones, Sprains, and Strains
What happens when you break a bone or get a strain or sprain? Find the answer at this website, and also find instruction sheets on first-aid care for broken bones, strains, and sprains.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Learn the Skeletal System: Label the Bones
How well do you know the human skeletal system? Take advantage of this interactive program by matching bone names to the illustration or by assembling the skeleton.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Figure This: Does Drinking Soda Affect Your Health?
Try this "Real world," challenge taken directly from the today's health journals. Use your problem solving, data analysis, and number sense skills to figure out if soda intake among teenage girls is related to incidences of broken bones....
Other
Your Orthopaedic Connection: Total Joint Replacement
The technology now exists where we can replace parts of bones that have worn out. This usually happens at joints. Here is general information on what's involved.
SEN Teacher
Sen Teacher: Skeleton Labels
This skeleton labeling worksheet can be customized for different levels of difficulty, and then printed.
SEN Teacher
Sen Teacher: Label a Skeleton: Free Education Software
You can download free software here for Windows, Mac or Linux that presents the human skeleton, with or without flesh, with labeled skeletal parts. There is a quiz mode where students must match the labels to each bone as a timer goes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: The Skeletal System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the components and functions of the skeletal system; the structure of bone, and how bones grow and develop; and the different types of joints, and how they...
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University of Wyoming: Make Learning Real: Virtual Skeleton
Collection of images of bones in the human skeleton, captured with QuickTime VR, can be rotated and viewed from different angles.
Other
Osteoporosis Resource Centers: What Is Osteoporosis?
This site is offered by an organization of physicians' offices in the Mid-Atlantic region for educating the public as well as the diagnosis, treatment and management of osteoporosis.