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Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the basic organization of the body's organs and the major organ system.
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BBC

Bbc: Human Anatomy: Organs

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the anatomy of the human body. Click on an organ or other body part to read more about its structure and function, and then try out an interactive activity for that organ.
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BBC

Bbc: Science: Human Body & Mind: The Body: Puberty

For Students 9th - 10th
By exploring the body of a boy or girl, this interactive helps the learner discover how the body changes during puberty. Click the hotspots on the child to get more in-depth information, then click on the adult to see the results.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Interactive Human Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Try to identify each of the human body's major organs in this interactive activity.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Biology: Human Body Worksheets and Quizzes

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your understanding of the human body and all of its complexities with these interactive worksheets, games and quizzes.
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Science for Kids

Science Kids: Science Quizzes: Human Body Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
A twenty-question quiz covering knowledge of the human body and its anatomy. Good for test review or for checking students' general knowledge.
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North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Ncrel: Human Body Systems Resource

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about the different human body systems? This site features information on each of the different systems. Students and teachers will benefit from this comprehensive resource.
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Other

Get Body Smart: Human Anatomy and Physiology: Human Body Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
This source offers a great overview of the various systems of the human body. Each part is identified and described on this site by a veteran science professor. Many interactive quizzes are located here as well for students looking to...
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BBC

Bbc: Science & Nature: Human Body and Mind: What Is Psychology?

For Students 9th - 10th
This guide offers an overview of the field of psychology. Topics include human behavior, branches of psychology, and what psychology is. Archived.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Organization of the Human Body

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Cells, like these nerve cells, do not work in isolation. To send orders from your brain to your legs, for example, signals pass through many nerve cells. These cells...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Can Your Body Temperature Tell the Time of Day?

For Students 9th - 10th
If you have ever had to adjust to a new time zone, you have noticed that it takes a while before you start to feel normal again. By shifting your sleep and activity schedule, you have altered the pattern of your body's circadian rhythms....
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: I See a Full Moon Rising, and Shrinking, or Do I?

For Students 9th - 10th
The moon appears bigger at the horizon just as it is rising over the treetops, than it does later in the evening when it is overhead. This is because our perception of its size changes based on where it is in the sky. In this human...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Fast Food: Can Peppermint Improve Reaction Times?

For Students 9th - 10th
Did you know that some teachers give their students a peppermint candy on state testing days? Is it to give the kids sweet-smelling breath? Or are the teachers hoping for something more on the important testing day? In this human biology...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body

For Students 3rd - 7th
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, introduces students to the concept of the human body as a system of cells, tissues, and organs.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: I Love Ice Cream, but It Doesn't Love Me: Lactose Intolerance

For Students 6th - 8th
Pizza, milk shakes, and ice cream sundaes all contain dairy products, therefore they cannot be eaten by the majority of people around the world. Dairy products contain the sugar molecule lactose, and the majority of people on the planet...
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Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Human Biology: Musculatory System

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the three types of muscle tissue, how a muscle contracts, and how muscles are adapted for exercise. [3:40]
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.1 Human Body

For Students 5th - 9th
Explore the levels of organization in the human body.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Human Body Systems: Unit Test

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this nine-question unit test over the human body systems.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Human Body You've Got Some Nerve!

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about nerves in the human body. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Systems of Our Human Body: A Study Through Power Point

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a student-led exploration of the systems of the human body, through technology. Students will work cooperatively to develop a PowerPoint presentation that will thoroughly explain each system. Systems included are: circulatory...
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Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Excretory System

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore how the human body rids itself of wastes with the function of the kidneys.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: As Large as Life a Poster of a Human Body System

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is a student led exploration of the systems of the human body through art and self-expression. Groups will cooperatively develop a poster, the size of a fifth-grade student, and will accurately depict the assigned system of the...
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British Library

British Library: Bodies of Knowledge

For Students 9th - 10th
Series of illustrated essays on the different ways that the human body has been represented in art and science across history considers medieval astrology, the ancient Chinese practice of acupuncture, Vitruvius's notion of body symmetry,...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Effects of Exercise: Changes in Carbon Dioxide Output

For Students 9th - 10th
Everybody knows that your body needs oxygen to keep going, and that you breathe out carbon dioxide as waste. What happens when you exercise? You've probably noticed that you breathe faster, and your heart beats faster. What triggers your...

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