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Zygote Media Group: Zygote Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a 3D look into the anatomical structure of the human body with this website. Website allows students to explore the body's muscle system, bone structure, organs, and nerve systems. Navigate around the human body with this site!
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University of Texas at Austin

E Fossils: Juvenile Modern Homo Sapiens [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
This life-sized printout will help students learn about the human skeleton and identify some of the important bones of the human body.
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Exploring Nature

Exploring Nature Educational Resource: Skeletal System

For Students 5th - 9th
A collection of illustrated fact sheets and activities on the parts of the human skeletal system and their functions.
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SEN Teacher

Sen Teacher: Label a Skeleton: Free Education Software

For Students 3rd - 8th
You can download free software here for Windows, Mac or Linux that presents the human skeleton, with or without flesh, with labeled skeletal parts. There is a quiz mode where students must match the labels to each bone as a timer goes.
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Society for Science and the Public

Science News for Students: Shoulder Bones Fuel Debate

For Students 9th - 10th
A shoulder blade was recently discovered that belonged to a 3-year-old humanlike female who lived more than 3 million years ago. Scientists are studying the fossil to learn whether the creature climbed trees.
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National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Historical Anatomies of the Web: Albinus, Bernhard

For Students 9th - 10th
Images from the 18th century anatomy text, "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani" by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. There are drawings of individual bones, skeletons and musculature. The text on the images is in Latin. Title and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Skeletal System Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the structure and function of the parts of the human skeletal system.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Human Skeleton

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart simply explores the names of the bones in the human body.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Skeletal System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains the major functions of the skeletal system: support, protection, and movement.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Compare Human Made Objects With Natural Objects

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In small groups, students will experiment and observe the similarities and differences between human-made objects and nature. The students will compare the function and structure of hollow bones with drinking straws, bird beaks, tool...
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Community and Memory, Making of African American Identity: V. 3

For Students 9th - 10th
A story that defines community as a connection between the past and the present. This resource links to Henry Dumas's short story, "Ark of Bones" and reviews its social commentary as it applies to African American community.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Arm Model

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In the following lesson middle schoolers are required to construct a model arm and learn how muscles and bones work together to achieve efficient movement.
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National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Skeletal System

For Students 9th - 10th
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human skeletal system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
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Zygote: Zygote Anatomy Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A 3D anatomical product that allows students to explore the muscles, bones, organs, skin, and blood vessels that compose the human body.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Forced to Fracture

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars learn how forces affect the human skeletal system through fractures, and why certain bones are more likely to break than others depending on their design and use in the body. They learn how engineers and doctors...
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University of Minnesota

University of Minnesota: Anatomy Image Bank

For Students 9th - 10th
Hundreds of anatomy diagrams for classroom or medical use. Each image represented is a simple black-and-white professional drawing of a specific part of the human body.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers, Nova: Little People of Flores: Compare the Brains

For Students 9th - 10th
Compare and contrast the shape and size of a Homo floresiensis brain with the brain of a chimp and a modern human.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Your Teeth

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides this illustrated article about human teeth.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Skeletal System

For Teachers 10th - 12th
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...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: People Grow and Change

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 2nd grade unit on how the human body changes, as well as lessons on the heart and lungs, bones and muscles, and the digestive system. This unit includes web links to some fun informational...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: The Skeleton

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the human skeleton and its bones.
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Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: El Sistema Oseo [In Spanish]

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the names of major bones of the human body.
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Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)

Educaplus: El Sistema Oseo Test [In Spanish]

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of major bones of the human body.
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Biology Corner

Biology Corner: Anatomy: Skeletal System: Flash Cards

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Printable collection of drawings of bones in the human body, suitable for testing knowledge of particular structures.

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