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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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Skeletal System
Through this unit, written for an honors anatomy and physiology class, students become familiar with the human skeletal system and answer the Challenge Question: When you get home from school, your mother grabs you, and you race to the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering Bones
Students extend their knowledge of the skeletal system to biomedical engineering design, specifically the concept of artificial limbs. Students relate the skeleton as a structural system, focusing on the leg as structural necessity. They...
Inner Body
Innerbody: Skeletal System
This site has a skeleton with points to click on. Each click brings up information on that part in a separate window. If the windows are resized next to each other, it's point, click, and read.
Inner Body
Innerbody: Interactive Skeletal System (Posterior View)
This site has a skeleton with points to click on. Each click brings up information on that bone in a separate window. If the windows are resized next to each other, it's point, click, and read.
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
Get Body Smart: Human Anatomy and Physiology: System Quizzes
A collection of interactive, self-checking quizzes on human body systems. Covers muscular, skeletal, circulatory, nervous, and respiratory systems.
Other
Get Body Smart: Human Anatomy and Physiology: Skeletal System
Students can learn about the human skeletal system through this easy-to-access tutorial. Sections include an introduction, organization of the skeleton, appendicular skeleton, and the axial skeleton. Interactive quizzes for each section...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Exercise, Nutrition, Hormones, and Bone Tissue
All of the organ systems of your body are interdependent, and the skeletal system is no exception. The food you take in via your digestive system and the hormones secreted by your endocrine system affect your bones. Even using your...
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.
Other
Bones and Skeletal System
This thorough site delves into the structure of the bone, the main bones in the human skeleton (definition and pictures), and a comparison of the male and female pelvis.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Skeletal System Joints
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize the different skeletal joints in the body and understand their function.
Biology 4 kids
Biology4 Kids: Quiz: Skeletal Systems
Take this ten-question review quiz over the skeletal systems of animals. Read more about each question after an incorrect answer is given.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Biology: The Musculoskeletal System Posttest
Test your knowledge over the musculoskeletal system with this five multiple-choice question posttest.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe: Biology: The Musculoskeletal System Pretest
See what you know about the musculoskeletal system with this five multiple-choice question pretest.
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.
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...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Skeletal System Game
Test your knowledge of the human skeletal system with this interactive labeling exercise.
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.
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.
National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: El Aparato Locomotor
Read this unit and learn about the skeletal system. It contains 16 interactive activities.
Math Science Nucleus
Math:science Nucleus:identifying Bones of the Body (Lab)
A nice site which provides descriptions of each of the bones that make up our skeletal system. Then there is a lab activity for students to complete in which they build a skeletal system and describe the structure/function of each bone...
Other
Introductory Anatomy: Bones
In addition to providing information on the function of bones in our body, this website includes tips for classifying and identifying specific bones of the skeletal system.