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A Look Inside: Human Body
Learn how our body works at this personal site from a fourth grade teacher. Colorful graphics and lots of fun facts.
SEN Teacher
Sen Teacher: Label a Skeleton: Free Education Software
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.
University of Texas at Austin
E Fossils: Juvenile Modern Homo Sapiens [Pdf]
This life-sized printout will help students learn about the human skeleton and identify some of the important bones of the human body.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Diving School: How Do We Move?
Mariven lives in Barbados. He is going on a diving adventure to learn all about bones and muscles of the human body.
University of Texas at Austin
E Fossils: Life Size Printout: Modern Adult Homo Sapiens [Pdf]
A PDF file of a modern human adult male skeleton that can be printed and assembled into a life size one dimensional model.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Our Amazing Skeleton
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...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Mexico: What Is a Skeleton?
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Bones on the Go!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the human skeleton and some of its stronger bones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
University of Wyoming: Make Learning Real: Virtual Skeleton
Collection of images of bones in the human skeleton, captured with QuickTime VR, can be rotated and viewed from different angles.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Fluid Statics: Pressures in the Body
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the concept of pressure in the human body; explain systolic and diastolic blood pressures; and describe pressures in the eye, lungs, spinal column, bladder, and skeletal system.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Cuerpo Humano Interactivo
This is a tour of the human skeleton, the senses and the excretory system. The content is displayed with pictures and interactive graphics.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Skeleton
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the human skeleton and its bones.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Moving and Growing
[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...
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: El Sistema Oseo [In Spanish]
Learn the names of major bones of the human body.
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: El Sistema Oseo Test [In Spanish]
Test your knowledge of major bones of the human body.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Skeleton?
Are humans born with 206 bones? Find out what the skeleton is.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Anatomy, Appendicular Skeleton
[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.
Curated OER
Kids Health: How the Body Works
A colorful, interactive site for kids and teens. A holistic approach to learning about your body, including topics such as feelings, drugs, injuries, and other health issues. Available in Spanish.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Skeletons and Bones at Enchanted Learning
In this Enchanted Learning site, teachers and students will find great skeleton crafts, activities, and printouts.
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Medical Education Network: Welcome to the Bone Box
An interactive site that provides a picture of a skeleton segment. On the picture is a number with a line pointing to a part of the skeleton. When you click on the number the part is identified.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Prosthetic Party
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,...
Library of Congress
Loc: Everyday Mysteries: What Is the Strongest Muscle?
There are a variety of ways one can look at what might be the strongest muscle in the body. This site defines the various types of muscles and goes on to explain which would be considered the strongest.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Axial and Appendicular Skeleton Parts Quiz
41 question quiz relates to medical terms associated with the axial and appendicular skeleton.