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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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Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Why Exercise Is Wise

For Students 9th - 10th
Some people know that exercising is beneficial, but still find reasons why it isn't a priority. This article relates the importance of exercising and how it can improve your mind and body. Links to similar sites are provided as well.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: New Town Health Club

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Over the course of the year, the students in Human Anatomy and Physiology will design a health club. As part of this year-long project, the students will develop a brochure or print advertisement for the health club. This project will...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Ex Factors

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[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...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Your Muscular System Works

For Students 9th - 10th
So how does it work? Emma Bryce takes you into the body to find out how the muscular system.
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Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: Tus Musculos

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out what your muscle are made of and where they are located in your body.
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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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Website
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Historical Anatomies of the Web: Albinus, Bernhard

For Students 9th - 10th
Images from the 18th century anatomy text, "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani" by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. There are drawings of individual bones, skeletons and musculature. The text on the images is in Latin. Title and...
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Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Center of Gravity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In the following activity young scholars will learn about center of gravity and how the body adjusts to the force of gravity to remain balanced.
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Website
Estrella Mountain Community College

Estrella Community College: Animal Cells and Tissues

For Students 9th - 10th
Notes on different tissues of the body such as: connective, epithelial, muscle, and nervous. Helpful terms and definitions as well as review questions. Colorful graphics of important terms are also provided.
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Lesson Plan
Science Museum of Minnesota

Lesson Plan: Go With the Flow

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this effective site, students will name the parts of the heart and trace the flow of blood through the body. Contains related links.
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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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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Vitamins Work?

For Students 9th - 10th
Vitamins are the building blocks that keep our bodies running; they help build muscle and bone, capture energy, heal wounds and more. But if our body doesn't create vitamins, how do they get into our system? The following learning module...
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Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Digestion

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Digestion is the process of breaking down food into smaller units. This is done by special chemicals in the body. Proteins are important for muscles and cell growth and repair. Students learn about digestion and proteins by observing the...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solar System!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An introduction to our solar system: the planets, our Sun and our Moon. Students begin by learning the history and engineering of space travel. They make simple rockets to acquire a basic understanding Newton's third law of motion. They...
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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)...
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Activity
Curated OER

Kids Health: A Big Look at the Eye

For Students 3rd - 8th
Younger students learn much about the human eye in this article, which is illustrated with a cross-sectional diagram.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Could We Survive Prolonged Space Travel?

For Students 9th - 10th
Prolonged space travel plays a severe toll on the human body: microgravity impairs muscle and bone growth, and high doses of radiation cause irreversible mutations. As we seriously consider the human species becoming space-faring, a big...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Surprising Reason You Feel Awful When You're Sick

For Students 9th - 10th
It starts with a tickle in your throat that becomes a cough. Your muscles begin to ache, you grow irritable, and you lose your appetite. It's official: you've got the flu. It's logical to assume that this miserable medley of symptoms is...
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Unit Plan
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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Interactive
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Chemistry Simulation: Average Atomic Mass

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students explore how percent abundances of different isotopes affect the average atomic mass for that given element. Students form connections between the average atomic mass and a person's body mass....
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Graphic
Curated OER

Albinus Table 1 A

For Students 9th - 10th
Images from the 18th century anatomy text, "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani" by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. There are drawings of individual bones, skeletons and musculature. The text on the images is in Latin. Title and...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Albinus Table 1 A

For Students 9th - 10th
Images from the 18th century anatomy text, "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani" by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. There are drawings of individual bones, skeletons and musculature. The text on the images is in Latin. Title and...

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