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Handout
Other

A Look Inside: Human Body

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn how our body works at this personal site from a fourth grade teacher. Colorful graphics and lots of fun facts.
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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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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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Graphic
University of Texas at Austin

E Fossils: Life Size Printout: Modern Adult Homo Sapiens [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A PDF file of a modern human adult male skeleton that can be printed and assembled into a life size one dimensional model.
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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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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Bones on the Go!

For Teachers 5th
[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.
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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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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Fluid Statics: Pressures in the Body

For Students 11th - 12th
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.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Human Body

For Students Pre-K - 1st
human body
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Activity
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)

Ministerio De Educacion: Cuerpo Humano Interactivo

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a tour of the human skeleton, the senses and the excretory system. The content is displayed with pictures and interactive graphics.
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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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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
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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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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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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Interactive
Curated OER

Kids Health: How the Body Works

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Skeletons and Bones at Enchanted Learning

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Enchanted Learning site, teachers and students will find great skeleton crafts, activities, and printouts.
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Interactive
Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Medical Education Network: Welcome to the Bone Box

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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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,...
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Handout
Library of Congress

Loc: Everyday Mysteries: What Is the Strongest Muscle?

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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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.