CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Smooth, Skeletal, and Cardiac Muscles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify and describe the primary types of human muscle tissue.
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Get Body Smart: Functional Anatomy of Skeletal Muscles
Brought to you by Get Body Smart, students can learn about the human musculoskeletal system through this easy-to-access tutorial. Sections include muscles that act on the arm, shoulder, forearm, wrist, palm, digits, anterior thigh,...
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Mananatomy.com: Classification of Bones
Four different types of human bone classifications are discussed through text and pictures. Shape, development, region, and structure classifications are further divided into the variety of bones each entails.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Smooth, Skeletal, and Cardiac Muscles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of the three types of human muscle tissues.
Curated OER
Kids Health: How the Body Works Movies and Activities
Short, colorful movies explain each of the body's systems: skeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, urinary, respiratory, endocrine, skin, immune, muscular, and nervous. Once you've seen the movie, click on the Activity Page link for...
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: The Living Skeleton: A Tour of Human Bones
Take a tour of the human skeleton and see computer images of various bones of the body, including the normal bone and bones that have anomalies.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Practice Test: Anatomy
Take this practice quiz to test your knowledge of human anatomy. See how fast you can name the different parts of the skeleton from different views: the back, front, skull, or even the arms. By changing the level, it is appropriate for...
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Biology Guide: Human Life Span
Students learn about the human life-span. Some topics investigated in the tutorial are reproduction, nervous system, skeletal muscle, and homeostasis.
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Institute of Human Origins: Classifying Life
In this exercise you will build two skeletons, one of an ape and one of a modern human being. The bones have been completely mixed up so its up to you to find the right fit. In this exercise you will learn about the unique...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Human Body
The Engineering and the Human Body unit covers the broad spectrum of topics that make up our very amazing human body. Students are introduced to the space environment and learn the major differences between the environment on Earth and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biomedical Engineering and the Human Body
Human beings are fascinating and complex living organisms-a symphony of different functional systems working in concert. Through a 10-lesson series with hands-on activities students are introduced to seven systems of the human...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Bone Up!
In this instructional activity students will learn the basics about the skeletal system. They will be able to identify the major bones of the human body and explain the functions of the skeletal system. The students will have the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fascinating Friction!
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Forced to Fracture
Learners learn how forces affect the human skeletal system through fractures, and why certain bones are more likely to break than others depending on their design and use in the body. They learn how engineers and doctors collaborate to...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Muscular System Study Guide
Review the structure and function of the human body's muscular system.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Bones and Human Skeleton
Kids learn about the science of bones and the human skeleton. How they keep us together and protect us from harm.
Biology Corner
Biology Corner: Anatomy: Skeletal System: Flash Cards
Printable collection of drawings of bones in the human body, suitable for testing knowledge of particular structures.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: List of Human Bones
Kids learn about all the human bones in this list and pictures of the skeleton.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Human Skeleton
This site has a basic description of the human skeleton supplemented with a picture of the major bones that make up the skeleton.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Human Skeleton
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart simply explores the names of the bones in the human body.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Anatomy Image Bank
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.
eSkeletons
E Skeletons Project
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the eSkeletons Project provides interactive views of bones. Various menus allow you to review the bones of the human skeleton and compare them to the bone structures of nine primates.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Pressures in the Body
From a chapter on Fluid Statics in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter covers the different types of fluid pressures in the human body and how they are measured. Includes problems and exercises.
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U.s. Department of Health and Human Services: Best Bones Forever!
Lesson plans and activities to encourage girls to get physically active and to snack on foods that make healthy bones. Gives basic facts about bones and relates how eating foods with calcium and vitamin D gives a person strong bones....