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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Video: 3 D View of Human Male Anatomy

For Students 9th - 10th
A video animation with music exploring the workings of the female body. This 3D views allows you to get a glimpse of muscles, organs, and bone structure of the male body. Video shows you the network of veins and arteries of the body as...
Activity
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Human Body Joints and Movements

For Students 2nd - 8th
Discover what enables movement in human beings while learning about the different types of joints.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Comparative Anatomy of Bird vs. Human Leg Bones

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity is designed for young scholars to compare and contrast the anatomy of bird and human leg bones. Students will kinesthetically model walking like a bird to note the differences in the foot bones.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Dead Men's Tales: Inferring Height From Bone Length

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore the work of forensic scientists by inferring an individual's height from the length of certain long bones. Create bone/height relation charts and measure length using metric units. This activity was created to be used with the...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Let's Explore What Our Bones Are For"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson is a hands-on, technology based science lesson. It is very interactive! Students are engaged at all times. Students will explore the human body through a "virtual field trip." While exploring the human body they will discover...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: About Your Bones

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the skeletonThis passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....
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Google

Louisiana Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Grade 8: Written in Bone: Unit Files

For Teachers 7th
A Google Drive folder with instructional presentations, discussion questions, student activities, and assessments for the text, Written in Bone.
Handout
Other

Washington State Univ.: Questions About Human Evolution

For Students 9th - 10th
How far back in time can we date bones or skeletons? How did certain species of man just die off? What was the manner of their communication? These questions and more are answered in this informative essay.
Website
PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Scientists Discover Oldest Human Ancestor

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists have recently published their research into fossil bones from Ethiopia that they say came from an ancestor common to both humans and chimpanzees. They have named the ancestor Ardipithecus ramidus. In the articles and video,...
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Muscles and Bones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Do you know which foods have lots of calcium for your bones? How do your bones and muscles work together? What are you doing to keep your muscles strong? Students are exposed to 10 activities that will help them address the...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Naming Bones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart gives students practice naming bones.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Bone Up!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson students will learn the basics about the skeletal system. They will be able to identify the major bones of the human body and explain the functions of the skeletal system. The students will have the opportunity to navigate...
Interactive
eSkeletons

E Skeletons Project

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Article
Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: The Skeletal System

For Students 9th - 10th
After studying this article, students will be able to identify the functions and structure of bones, types of bones, bone development, parts of bones, types of joints, and bone disorders.
Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Riddle of the Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online companion Web site of "Evolution," the seven-episode series on PBS, piece together clues to how one of our early ancestors looked as you examine images from four significant fossil finds of Australopithecus afarensis.
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Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University: Skeletal System

For Students 9th - 10th
In this resource, you will access photographs of the human skeletal system. A quiz is associated with each image which has numbered labels on the skeletal parts. Create a numbered list and write down the name for each part, then check...
Interactive
Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Medical Education Network: Welcome to the Bone Box

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive site that provides a picture of a skeleton segment. On the picture is a number with a line pointing to a part of the skeleton. When you click on the number the part is identified.
Interactive
Inner Body

Innerbody: Interactive Skeletal System (Posterior View)

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Joints: Naming and Identifying Joints in the Human Body

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this investigation, learners will study joints by comparing mechanical devices to living joint movement to understand how different kinds of joints work. Students will also determine where these joints are located in the body....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Our Amazing Skeleton

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson covers the topic of human bones and joints. Students learn about the skeleton, the number of and types of bones in the body, and how outer space affects astronauts' bones. Students also learn how to take care of their bones...
Unit Plan
Other

Institute of Human Origins: Classifying Life

For Students 9th - 10th
In this exercise you will build two skeletons, one of an ape and one of a modern human being. The bones have been completely mixed up so its up to you to find the right fit. In this exercise you will learn about the unique...
Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Human Skeleton

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has a basic description of the human skeleton supplemented with a picture of the major bones that make up the skeleton.
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Super Skeletons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learn more about the bones that make up your internal framework. This site provides learning opportunities through games, experiments, activities, and songs.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Super People: Getting the Minerals Out

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore the composition and physiology of bones, describe how humans lose bone mass and explain how this becomes a challenge for extended space flight. Compare and contrast the decalcifying properties of several liquids.

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