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.
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.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Your Genes, Your Health: Marfan Syndrome
Learn all about Marfan Syndrome at this colorful, simple, interactive sight. Includes video options.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Bone Formation and Development
This learning module explains bone formation and development. Learn about cartiage, intramembranous ossification, endochondral ossification and bone remodeling.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Bones of the Upper Limb
Learn here about the bones of the upper limb. The upper limb is divided into three regions. These consist of the arm, located between the shoulder and elbow joints; the forearm, which is between the elbow and wrist joints; and the hand,...
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.
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,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sticks and Stones Will Break That Bone!
Students learn about the strength of bones and methods of helping to mend fractured bones. During a class demonstration, a chicken bone is broken by applying a load until it reaches a point of failure (fracture). Then, working as...
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.
Other
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.
Other
Scoliosis Research Society
This is an extensive site with information about all types of scoliosis, symptoms, causes and treatment.
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.
Children's Museum
Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet Kelsey the Triceratops
What does a fossil named "Kelsey" tell us about the Triceratops horridus? Learn what the fossils say about this dinosaur's defense system, diet, and size. Be sure to click the "See the skeleton" link to interact with and learn about...
Children's Museum
Dinosphere: Dino Profiles: Meet the Maiasaura
Read about paleontologist John Horner's 1978 discovery: a new dinosaur, the Maiasaura. Learn what this large creature's fossil tells us about the Maiasaura's diet and physical features. Click on "See the skeleton" for an interactive tour...
Other
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.
University of California
Ucmp: Vertebrate Flight
A very solid Berkeley site on the structure and function of bird flight. Topics include skeletal and muscular adaptations for flight.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Motor Responses
Students learn the structure and function of the descending pathways of the motor commands from the cortex to the skeletal muscles.
Other
Your Orthopaedic Connection: Total Joint Replacement
The technology now exists where we can replace parts of bones that have worn out. This usually happens at joints. Here is general information on what's involved.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Axial and Appendicular Skeleton Parts Quiz
41 question quiz relates to medical terms associated with the axial and appendicular skeleton.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science
This customizable digital textbook covers topics related to fourth-grade science. It is Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned.
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.
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...
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Super Skeletons
Learn more about the bones that make up your internal framework. This site provides learning opportunities through games, experiments, activities, and songs.
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...