PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Meet My Muscles Lower Body Lesson Plan
This lesson depicts students following along with their teacher to learn about lower body muscles. Students learn about muscles such as the gluteal and hamstring and how to give them a good stretch and exercise.
MadSci Network
Mad Sci Network: Visible Human: Annotated References
A collection of transverse and coronal views of the internal anatomy of the human body. The webpage also has a keyword search for specific organs.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: What's Happening to Your Body?
This lesson plan site focuses on the changes that adolescents go through and delves into their nutritional, physical, and mental health needs.
PBS
Pb Skids: It's My Life
Articles, illustrations, quizzes, features, games, and polls for kids and teens concerning their bodies, their families, their schools, and their emotions.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Introduction to Human Tissues: How Are Tissues Classified?
In this investigation, students will observe slides of unknown tissues and then draw their observations in a science notebook. They will then work in groups to reach a consensus as to the classification of tissues. This lesson plan is...
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Hand Biometrics Technology
Lesson probes how biometrics technologies have been used worldwide to address security and identification systems. After exploring different biometric techniques, students work in teams to find their own hand geometry biometrics, then...
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Heart of the Matter
Students learn about artificial heart valves and the engineering design process used in mechanical heart valve designs. The objective of the lesson is to develop an understanding of the interface between man and machine and the impact of...
Science for Kids
Science Kids: Science Quizzes: Human Body Quiz
A twenty-question quiz covering knowledge of the human body and its anatomy. Good for test review or for checking students' general knowledge.
Other
Canal Kids: Saude (Health for Kids in Portuguese)
A very informative and fun site children can use to learn about taking care of their health. In addition to information about the body, the senses, the brain, vaccines, and healthy habits, the site provides a brief history of medicine....
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Dream Anatomy
Take a step back in time to see the human body and the field of medicine through the looking glass of history. Experience a different kind of representation of our internal anatomy, and learn about the history of human dissection.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Aafp: American Family Physician
This is an online medical journal with information on various medical topics. Includes current issues, content collections, the CME quiz, featured articles, and the blog. Provides links to previous editions.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: As Large as Life a Poster of a Human Body System
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...
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Partes Del Cuerpo [In Spanish]
Use your logic to find the secret name of the different parts of the human body.
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Cuerpo Humano [In Spanish]
Check your knowledge of the parts of the human body by completing this crossword puzzle.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, introduces students to the concept of the human body as a system of cells, tissues, and organs.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Interactive Human Body
Try to identify each of the human body's major organs in this interactive activity.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Digestive System
Make learning about the human digestive system fun with full-color diagrams. Follow the steps food takes through the body, and find out about the role this system plays in human survival.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Excretory System
Explore how the human body rids itself of wastes with the function of the kidneys.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Skeletal System
Make learning about the human skeletal system fun with full-color diagrams. Read about the structure and function of the body's 206 bones.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Endocrine System
Read and watch a series of videos on how our bodies regulate mood, growth, and development with complex chemicals.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Lymphatic System
Find out how the body rids itself of wastes and fights off infections with the help of the lymph nodes and white blood cells.
Other
Imaios Sas: E Anatomy: Atlas of Human Anatomy
A collection of pictures, videos, medical imaging, and illustrations of human anatomy. A membership is required to view some of the images, while other images can be viewed without one.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Human Biology: Musculatory System
Learn about the three types of muscle tissue, how a muscle contracts, and how muscles are adapted for exercise. [3:40]