Exploring Nature
Exploring Nature Educational Resource: Skeletal System
A collection of illustrated fact sheets and activities on the parts of the human skeletal system and their functions.
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Bare Bones
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the skeletal system and a diagram showing some of the bones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Sun Site: General Characteristics of Reptiles
This site explains what reptiles are, where they live, what they look like, how they move, how they breathe, what they eat, what their sense organs are, and how they reproduce.
Columbia University
Columbia Univeristy: Architecture of New York City: Birth of the Skyscraper
Learn about how and why skyscrapers were first built, and why they became a major symbol of New York City. This highly interactive site includes video lectures on the development and importance of skyscrapers, a timeline of commercial...
Biology 4 kids
Biology4 Kids: Quiz: Skeletal Systems
Take this ten-question review quiz over the skeletal systems of animals. Read more about each question after an incorrect answer is given.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Biology: The Musculoskeletal System Posttest
Test your knowledge over the musculoskeletal system with this five multiple-choice question posttest.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Biology: The Musculoskeletal System Pretest
See what you know about the musculoskeletal system with this five multiple-choice question pretest.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Skeletal System Game
Test your knowledge of the human skeletal system with this interactive labeling exercise.
Other
Introductory Anatomy: Bones
In addition to providing information on the function of bones in our body, this website includes tips for classifying and identifying specific bones of the skeletal system.
Other
University of Bristol: What Were the Dinosaurs, and How Did They Live?
Answers to a series of nine questions related to dinosaurs. There are a number of links to other informative sites as well.
Other
Mex online.com: Day of the Dead Dia De Los Muertos
This article explores the cultural significance of the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico. Content focuses on what Day of the Dead is, its symbols, and its traditions.
US Geological Survey
Usgs: Dinosaurs: Fact and Fiction
A comprehensive series of pages that answers a number of commonly asked questions about dinosaurs.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: The Skeletal System: Self Check Quiz
Try these five multiple-choice questions about the skeletal system. After submitting answers, students can review the material.
Other
Southern California Institute: Pediatric Orthopedics
This resource is devoted to pediatric orthopedics and to the conditions of normal and abnormal bone development. Brief explanations about the anatomy of the spine, elbow, hip, hand, foot, knee, and shoulder are also provided, with...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Skeletal System
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains the major functions of the skeletal system: support, protection, and movement.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Learn more about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work when you visit this resource. This site features links to information on his life and work.
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: The Ex Factors
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the importance of physical activity on the body. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Dinosaur Eggs
The Canadian Museum of Nature looks at the rare discoveries of fossil eggs.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Skeletal System Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over the human skeletal system, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
Nature Research
News @ Nature: Flores Man
Site from News @ Nature provides the story of the remarkable discovery on the Island of Flores, Flores Man. See a great picture of the skull and read explanations and reflections from the leading palaeoanthropologists on the dig.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Zoom Dinosaurs
Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic,...
TES Global
Tes: Languages and the Olympics
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this three week Olympics unit, primary students will pair with secondary students. Students will learn basic French and Spanish vocabulary through music and physical education activities.
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