North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Ncrel: Human Body Systems Resource
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Infographic: Chemical Abundances: Human Body
Almost 99% of the mass of the human body is made up of six elements: oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. View this downloadable infographic on the human body.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology
This site provides basic information on human genetics and reproduction using tutorials, simulations, images and quizzes. There are also links to other worthwhile sites.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Human Genetics Problem Set
A set of sixteen multiple-choice questions. Once solved, incorrect answers are linked to tutorials to help solve the problem.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Problem Set
This problem set is designed to increase students' knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). It identifies the most common contemporary sexually transmitted diseases and describes their symptoms, modes of transmission, and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biomedical Engineering and the Human Body
Human beings are fascinating and complex living organisms-a symphony of different functional systems working in concert. Through a 10-lesson series with hands-on activities students are introduced to seven systems of the human...
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: New Methods for Karyotyping
Read about the findings from the scientific group from the National Center for Human Genome Research, which published a modification to traditional karyotyping that permits rapid identification of chromosomal alterations.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Blackett Family Dna Activity
Family studies are a good way to learn about DNA profiling and RFLP analysis because students can follow the inheritance of DNA markers from one generation to the next. Students have the opportunity to do this in this activity.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Blackett Family Dna Activity 2
In this activity, students learn the concepts and techniques behind DNA profiling of the national DNA databank. Students will then have the opportunity to collect and interpret actual STR data, and to answer one or more questions.
National Institutes of Health
Visible Human Project: Anatomic Images Online
Medical quality 3D images of the male chest area and cut away views of the entire male body. Fantastic for anatomy classes!
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Our Bodies Have Computers and Sensors
Students learn about the human body's system components, specifically its sensory systems, nervous system and brain, while comparing them to robot system components, such as sensors and computers. The unit's life sciences-to-engineering...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Next Generation Surgical Tools in the Body
Through this unit, students act as engineers who are given the challenge to design laparoscopic surgical tools. After learning about human anatomy and physiology of the abdominopelvic cavity, especially as it applies to laparoscopic...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Do Human Sensors Work?
This lesson highlights the similarities between human sensors and their engineering counterparts. Taking this approach enables students to view the human body as a system, that is, from the perspective of an engineer. Humans have...
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Dna Forensics Problem Set 1
Students have the opportunity to interpret actual case results from the use of the Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) method to characterize human DNA samples as applied in paternity analysis and sex crimes investigations.
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Dna Forensics Problem Set 2
Students practice a problem using DNA profile analysis to characterize human DNA samples as applied in paternity analysis and sex crimes investigations.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Humans Are Like Robots
Four lessons related to robots and people present students with life sciences concepts related to the human body (including brain, nervous systems and muscles), introduced through engineering devices and subjects (including computers,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Body Circulation
Middle schoolers are introduced to the circulatory system, the heart, and blood flow in the human body. Through guided pre-reading, during-reading and post-reading activities, students learn about the circulatory system's parts,...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Human and Robot Sensors
Students are provided with a rigorous background in human "sensors" (including information on the main five senses, sensor anatomies, and nervous system process) and their engineering equivalents, setting the stage for three associated...
University of Arizona
The Biology Project: Human Biology: Color Blindness Problem Set
This problem set is based on a question received from a woman with red-green color blind as well as other members of her family. She wanted to know if we could help her understand how she inherited her color blindness.
Other
Marine Biological Laboratory: Why Study Marine Organisms for Biomedical Research
Descriptions of various research projects using marine organisms that have direct impact on medical research. The resource has a perspective on how medicine makes progress.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Are We Like Robots?
Young scholars explore the similarities between how humans move and walk and how robots move, so they come to see the human body as a system from an engineering point-of-view. Movement results from decision making (deciding to walk and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Polluted Air = Polluted Lungs
To gain a better understanding of the roles and functions of components of the human respiratory system and our need for clean air, students construct model lungs that include a diaphragm and chest cavity. They see how air moving in and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Brain Is a Computer
Students learn about the similarities between the human brain and its engineering counterpart, the computer. Since students work with computers routinely, this comparison strengthens their understanding of both how the brain works and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Digestion Simulation
To reinforce students' understanding of the human digestion process, the functions of several stomach and small intestine fluids are analyzed, and the concept of simulation is introduced through a short, introductory demonstration of how...