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Unit Plan
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Muscular System

For Students 9th - 10th
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human muscular system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: Sid Says

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make Sid move to match his father's movements and learn to identify where to find your muscles.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: It's a Kid's World: Body Sense

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate potential and kinetic energy by investigating the elasticity of a metal coil toy, the Slinky. Explore the development of muscle coordination in children and measure how practice improves performance of motor skills.
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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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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Humans Are Like Robots

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Four lessons related to robots and people present students with life sciences concepts related to the human body (including brain, nervous systems and muscles), introduced through engineering devices and subjects (including computers,...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Are We Like Robots?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore the similarities between how humans move and walk and how robots move, so they come to see the human body as a system from an engineering point-of-view. Movement results from decision making (deciding to walk and move)...