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Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: Bones, Muscles and Joints

For Students 9th - 10th
The anatomy of the musculoskeletal system and what the bones, muscles and joints do in our bodies are explained. Interactive diagrams show the internal structure of a bone, and how muscles and joints work together. Major disorders of the...
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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Bones, Muscles, and Joints

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from Family Doctor.org provides in depth terminology and helpful diagrams. This site has links to related articles to learn more about the musculoskeletal system.
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Interactive
Curated OER

Kids Health: How the Body Works

For Students 3rd - 8th
A colorful, interactive site for kids and teens. A holistic approach to learning about your body, including topics such as feelings, drugs, injuries, and other health issues. Available in Spanish.
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Interactive
Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Medical Education Network: Welcome to the Bone Box

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive site that provides a picture of a skeleton segment. On the picture is a number with a line pointing to a part of the skeleton. When you click on the number the part is identified.
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Handout
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Your Genes, Your Health: Marfan Syndrome

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn all about Marfan Syndrome at this colorful, simple, interactive sight. Includes video options.
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Bone Formation and Development

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module explains bone formation and development. Learn about cartiage, intramembranous ossification, endochondral ossification and bone remodeling.
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Bones of the Upper Limb

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn here about the bones of the upper limb. The upper limb is divided into three regions. These consist of the arm, located between the shoulder and elbow joints; the forearm, which is between the elbow and wrist joints; and the hand,...
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Pressures in the Body

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Fluid Statics in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter covers the different types of fluid pressures in the human body and how they are measured. Includes problems and exercises.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Prosthetic Party

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Student teams investigate biomedical engineering and the technology of prosthetics. Students create a model prosthetic lower leg using various materials. Each team demonstrate its prosthesis' strength and consider its pros and cons,...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sticks and Stones Will Break That Bone!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about the strength of bones and methods of helping to mend fractured bones. During a class demonstration, a chicken bone is broken by applying a load until it reaches a point of failure (fracture). Then, working as...
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Interactive
eSkeletons

E Skeletons Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the eSkeletons Project provides interactive views of bones. Various menus allow you to review the bones of the human skeleton and compare them to the bone structures of nine primates.
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Other

Mananatomy.com: Classification of Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
Four different types of human bone classifications are discussed through text and pictures. Shape, development, region, and structure classifications are further divided into the variety of bones each entails.
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Website
Other

Scoliosis Research Society

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an extensive site with information about all types of scoliosis, symptoms, causes and treatment.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Skeletons and Bones at Enchanted Learning

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Enchanted Learning site, teachers and students will find great skeleton crafts, activities, and printouts.
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Handout
Children's Museum

Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Kelsey the Triceratops

For Students 9th - 10th
What does a fossil named "Kelsey" tell us about the Triceratops horridus? Learn what the fossils say about this dinosaur's defense system, diet, and size. Be sure to click the "See the skeleton" link to interact with and learn about...
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Handout
BBC

Bbc: Applied Anatomy and Physiology: Muscles and Movement

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn what muscles are, how they are classified, and how they are attached to the body's skeletal system. This site contains several definitions, illustrations showing the parts of muscles, and a quiz to test your knowledge of muscles...
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Handout
Children's Museum

Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet the Maiasaura

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about paleontologist John Horner's 1978 discovery: a new dinosaur, the Maiasaura. Learn what this large creature's fossil tells us about the Maiasaura's diet and physical features. Click on "See the skeleton" for an interactive tour...
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Activity
Curated OER

Kids Health: How the Body Works Movies and Activities

For Students 3rd - 8th
Short, colorful movies explain each of the body's systems: skeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, urinary, respiratory, endocrine, skin, immune, muscular, and nervous. Once you've seen the movie, click on the Activity Page link for...
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Website
Other

Nauticus: Bones an Exhibit Inside You: Skeletal Structure

For Students 3rd - 5th
A list of facts about the skeleton. Includes audio for hearing how to pronounce the names of bones, and links to a labeled drawing of the skeleton and to a bone facts quiz.
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Handout
Other

Your Orthopaedic Connection: Total Joint Replacement

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Mexican Diner: What Are Body Systems?

For Students 4th - 6th
Learn about the different levels of organization in living things from cells to organisms, what body systems do, and how the skeletal and muscular systems work together.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Biology: The Musculoskeletal System Posttest

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge over the musculoskeletal system with this five multiple-choice question posttest.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe: Biology: The Musculoskeletal System Pretest

For Students 9th - 10th
See what you know about the musculoskeletal system with this five multiple-choice question pretest.
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Website
Other

Cystic fibrosis.com: Reference Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Cystic fibrosis is defined and a summary of its symptoms is provided. Includes an explanation of sweat tests, blood tests, and CF's effects on the digestive, respiratory, skeletal, and reproductive systems.

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