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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Fascinating Friction!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students use wood, wax paper and oil to investigate the importance of lubrication between materials and to understand the concept of friction. Using wax paper and oil placed between pieces of wood, the function of...
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Super Skeletons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learn more about the bones that make up your internal framework. This site provides learning opportunities through games, experiments, activities, and songs.
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Activity
SEN Teacher

Sen Teacher: Label a Skeleton: Free Education Software

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Activity
University of Texas at Austin

E Fossils: Juvenile Modern Homo Sapiens [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
This life-sized printout will help students learn about the human skeleton and identify some of the important bones of the human body.
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Graphic
Other

University of Wyoming: Make Learning Real: Virtual Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of images of bones in the human skeleton, captured with QuickTime VR, can be rotated and viewed from different angles.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Human Skeleton

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has a basic description of the human skeleton supplemented with a picture of the major bones that make up the skeleton.
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Graphic
University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Anatomy Image Bank

For Students 9th - 10th
Hundreds of anatomy diagrams for classroom or medical use. Each image represented is a simple black-and-white professional drawing of a specific part of the human body.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Skeleton

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the human skeleton and its bones.
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Activity
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: El Sistema Oseo [In Spanish]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the names of major bones of the human body.
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PPT
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: El Sistema Oseo Test [In Spanish]

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of major bones of the human body.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Anatomy, Appendicular Skeleton

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents the names of the bones in the human body. It includes an activity in which students label the bones after they have studied them.
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Website
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is a Skeleton?

For Students 2nd - 5th
Are humans born with 206 bones? Find out what the skeleton is.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Our Amazing Skeleton

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson covers the topic of human bones and joints. Students learn about the skeleton, the number of and types of bones in the body, and how outer space affects astronauts' bones. Students also learn how to take care of their bones...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Mexico: What Is a Skeleton?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Isabel celebrates the Day of the Dead in Mexico, for which many people dress up like skeletons. She wants to teach her brother Carlos about the skeleton and some different bones. This interactive module helps young learners understand...
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Diving School: How Do We Move?

For Students 4th - 6th
Mariven lives in Barbados. He is going on a diving adventure to learn all about bones and muscles of the human body.
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Interactive
PurposeGames

Purpose Games: Axial and Appendicular Skeleton Parts Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
41 question quiz relates to medical terms associated with the axial and appendicular skeleton.
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SEN Teacher

Sen Teacher: Skeleton Labels

For Students 3rd - 6th
This skeleton labeling worksheet can be customized for different levels of difficulty, and then printed.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Moving and Growing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this unit children learn about how the skeleton is related to movement and support in humans and what happens to the skeleton and muscles as they move. They also compare human bones and skeletons...
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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,...