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Beams and Bones

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders learn how parts of the human body interact and how bones and muscles work together.
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Bones and Joints

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this bones and joints worksheet, students build a model of an arm with sticks, balls, and caps to see how bones and joints work. Students also answer 4 questions.
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The Muscle System

For Students 9th
In this biology worksheet, 9th graders define striated and identify if the muscles of chicken's leg are striated or smooth. Then they determine how the muscles of a chicken leg are attached to the bones. Students also cut muscles away...
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Flex Those Muscles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils explore the muscular system to examine the different types of muscles in our bodies and how they work with other body systems. They discover how muscles help us chew food and laugh. Videos are used as part of this lesson.
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Sing Along with the Muscles Song

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students review the muscles of the body. They perform the functions of the muscles of the body to the tune of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer".
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Bones: The Body's Support

For Students 5th - 12th
In this bones worksheet, students compare the axial and the appendicular skeletons. Students also review the bone components. This worksheet has 6 matching, 8 short answer, 4 fill in the blank, and 6 true or false questions.
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Skeletal System

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders describe and identify the parts of the skeleton and how they support the body. They observe two chicken bones that have been soaked in vinegar for 5 - 7 days. They observe the bone's appearance after it has been removed...
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Exercise: What Kinds of Activities Are Best?

For Teachers 6th Standards
What happens in the muscles during anaerobic and aerobic exercise, and how does this affect the heart and our overall health? A cross-curricular lesson that introduces learners to the lifelong benefits of exercise, including the ability...
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The Magic School Bus Flexes Its Muscles

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students explore the inside of the human body as they compare the bones and joints of a chicken wing with their own hands and arms.
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Bone Transformations

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students create a picture from the shape of a bone. In this life science and art lesson, students discuss their bones and their purposes, then use a picture of a bone as a starting point for an artistic transformation. Lesson can be used...
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Use It or Lose It

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners explore the effects of resistance training on the muscles. Data on the muscle mass of rats is examined is graphed to determine any increase in mass due to training.
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Muscular and Skeletal Systems

For Teachers 5th Standards
How do muscles move bones? Find out using a built-in-class model. Pupils construct a hand model with paper and string, then follow a series of directions to explore the movement process. Discover additional information about the muscular...
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Rattle Your Bones and Flex Your Muscles

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify bones, muscles and joints. They explore and investigate the interaction between bones, muscles and joints, and movement of the hand or foot. To help the teacher provides a poster of the human skeleton.
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Quieting Down Muscles and Bones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars familiarize themselves with the proper names of muscles and bones and where they are located.
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Protection, Support, and Locomotion

For Students 6th - 8th
In this vertebrate skeleton worksheet, middle schoolers will read a paragraph about the function of bones, muscles, and skin. Then students will complete 6 short answer questions.
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Our Amazing Skeleton

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the skeleton, about the number of and types of bones in the body, and how outer space affects astronauts' bones. They discover how to take care of their bones here on Earth to prevent osteoporosis, or, weakening of the...
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Puppet on a String: An Engaging Look at Movement

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students examine how muscles can work together with joints.  In this movement lesson students use a marionette to observe how muscles work. 
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Protection, Support, and Locomotion

For Students 7th - 8th
In this skeletal system worksheet, students will read a graphic organizer and complete 1 short answer question about the five functions of the skeleton. Then students will use a graphic organizer about muscle types to fill in a table...
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Human Machine

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore the human body by conducting an exercise in class. In this human anatomy lesson plan, students view a diagram of the human body and identify the specific bones and joints that allow us to perform specific exercises like...
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Muscular System

For Students 9th - 12th
In this muscular system worksheet, students define related terms of the muscular system, they identify types of muscles, they order the events of muscle contraction and given a clue about structures and function of the muscular system...
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Gravity and Buoyancy

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Would a baggie filled with water have the same shape sitting on a table as it would in a bucket of water? Why not? Allow learners to find out first-hand the effects of gravity acting alone on the baggie, as well as when gravity is...
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Human Skeleton

For Students 5th - 7th
Promote reading comprehension and practice naming parts of the human skeleton with this online interactive instructional activity! Scholars read about the functions of the human skeletal system, then work online to label a diagram by...
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Broken Bones

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Young scholars listen to a lecture on broken bones. They review the proper first aid techniques and practice setting splints on one another. They observe X-rays and animal bones.
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Human Anatomy- How Do We Move?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine the muscular system. In this muscular system lesson, students first draw a realistic representation of their leg or arm bones. Students do several activities to attach these bones to "joints" with string to simulate the...

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