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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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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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Children's Museum

Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Frannie the Prenoceratops

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what a fossil named "Frannie" can tells us about a herbivorous dinosaur called the Prenoceratops, a cousin of Triceratops. View a taxonomy table, learn about this dinosaur's physical features, and interact with skeleton to learn...
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Children's Museum

Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Stan the T. Rex

For Students 9th - 10th
What can a fossil named "Stan" tell us about Tyrannosaurus rex? Read about paleontologists' findings about the T. rex diet, teeth, and brain thanks to Stan, and use an interactive skeleton to view and learn about T. rex's bones.
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Other

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Willo: The Dinosaur With a Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
Willo is a Thescelosaurus that lived 66 million years ago. Scientists discovered his fossilized heart inside his skeleton and were able to apply medical technology to analyze it. A description of the project and its findings is given...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Bone Classification

For Students 9th - 10th
This site helps you understand how the 206 bones that compose the adult skeleton are divided into five categories based on their shapes.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Bones on the Go!

For Teachers 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the human skeleton and some of its stronger bones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Invertebrates

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Animals are also often identified as being either invertebrates or vertebrates. These are terms based on the skeletons of the animals. Vertebrates have a backbone...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Human Skeletal System

For Students 6th - 8th
[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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Read Works

Read Works: Read Aloud Lesson: Digging Up Dinosaurs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will read "Digging Up Dinosaurs" using the close reading technique. Students will use graphic organizers to summarize the steps necessary to collect, study, and build a dinosaur skeleton.
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Columbian Mammoth of Babine Lake

For Students 9th - 10th
The finding of a Columbian Mammoth skeleton in a British Columbia copper mine is discussed here.
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Activity
Canadian Museum of History

Cmc: Voyages of Martin Frobisher: Ships of the Third Voyage

For Students 3rd - 8th
A description of the ships used by Martin Frobisher during his third voyage: the Aid, the Thomas Allen, and the Gabriel. The description includes drawn images of the exteriors and the drawn images of the skeletons of the ships' interiors.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Sharks

For Students 1st - 5th
This site is all about sharks including information on teeth, skeleton, diet, evolution, and more. Includes worksheets and printouts.
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Skeletal Health and Disorders

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson will help students to classify common disorders and injuries associated with the skeleton.
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Website
The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: Evolving Planet: Cambrian and Ordovician

For Students 9th - 10th
This comprehensive exhibit provides a basic overview of the period, an image gallery of ancient ocean life, a look at the development of skeletons, and the emergence of animals with backbones. View an interesting video on how to become a...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students will have the opportunity to learn names of many parts of the human body and how they help the body function healthy. Students will put a skeleton together to create a full human body.This lesson plan was created as a result of...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Skeletal System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan is designed to teach children about the skeletal system. Children will learn about the different bones that make up the body and be able to identify those bones. Young scholars will have the opportunity to navigate the...
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Website
University of Hawai'i

Uh: Jose Guadalupe Posada: My Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit from The University of Hawaii Art Gallery provides many images of Posada's woodcuts as well as insights into life in Mexico.
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Other

The Royal Tyrrell Muesum

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes exhibits of the museum, school programs, public programs, research and resources, etc.
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Website
University of Hawai'i

Jose Guadalupe Posada: My Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit from The University of Hawaii Art Gallery provides many images of Posada's woodcuts as well as insights into life in Mexico.
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Handout
University of California

Ucmp: Vertebrate Flight

For Students 9th - 10th
A very solid Berkeley site on the structure and function of bird flight. Topics include skeletal and muscular adaptations for flight.
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Website
Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Skeletal System

For Students 9th - 10th
Make learning about the human skeletal system fun with full-color diagrams. Read about the structure and function of the body's 206 bones.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Human Skeletal System

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Introduces the skeletal system by discussing the structure and function of bones.
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Website
Other

The Dinosaur Museum

For Students 3rd - 8th
The Dinosaur Museum is located in Blanding, Utah. Use this site to learn all about the exhibits and dinosaur information.

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