ClassFlow
Class Flow: Anatomy, Appendicular Skeleton
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents the names of the bones in the human body. It includes an activity in which students label the bones after they have studied them.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Super Skeletons
Learn more about the bones that make up your internal framework. This site provides learning opportunities through games, experiments, activities, and songs.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Skeletal System
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains the major functions of the skeletal system: support, protection, and movement.
Other
Critical Thinking Community: Remodeling Lessons Grades 4 6
Learn to re-model your lesson plans to include room for critical thought and higher levels of learning. Re-modeled lessons cite specific critical thinking strategies. Wonderful examples include " Writing Haiku," "Myths," "Sojourner...
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Main Bones of the Skeleton
Thirty six question quiz tests the users knowledge of the main bones of the body.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: Cuerpo Humano Interactivo
This is a tour of the human skeleton, the senses and the excretory system. The content is displayed with pictures and interactive graphics.
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Medical Education Network: Welcome to the Bone Box
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.
PBS
Wgbh/pbs: Explore Your Inner Animals
Click on a highlighted portion of the skeleton to open up a brief video presentation and written summary explaining how that part of the human has come from our ancient ancestors.
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.
American Academy of Achievement
Academy of Achievement: Donald C. Johanson, ph.d.
Learn about the anthropologist Donald C. Johanson, Ph.D. who discovered the Lucy skeleton. Read about his background and achievements, listen to an interview, and view a gallery of pictures.
Other
International Wolf Center: Basic Wolf Information
From an organization that cares about wolves find: Types of Wolves, Biology and Behavior, and information on wolves and humans. Under Biology and Behavior, be sure to click on Virtual Wolf, an interactive wolf skeleton.
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Skeletal System
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.
Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University: Skeletal System
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Anatomy and Physiology: Skeletal System Support
Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and video clips, students complete this learning module on the human skeletal system.
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: My Body My Senses
This teacher's guide introduces children to the human body and the five senses and covers the major body parts and what they do. Children also will use their five senses to learn about the world.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.6 Skeletal System
Learn the function of the bones in the human skeletal system.
Other
University of Tokyo: The Minatogawa Man
This Bulletin dates from 1982; nevertheless, it offers an excellent report and photographs of the skeleton and skulls found at Minatogawa in 1970.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Practice Test: Anatomy
Take this practice quiz to test your knowledge of human anatomy. See how fast you can name the different parts of the skeleton from different views: the back, front, skull, or even the arms. By changing the level, it is appropriate for...
Other
Learning Together: Do You Know About Anatomy?
Students can test their knowledge of the human body with these interactive games. Identify the parts of the body by dragging the terms to the appropriate boxes. Quizzes check knowledge on the skeleton, skull, digestive system,...
Read Works
Read Works: Bones on the Go!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the human skeleton and some of its stronger bones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Language Guide
Language Guide: El Cuerpo Ii
A very extensive guide of the internal parts of the body. Here you can practice the correct Spanish (of Spain) pronunciation of the internal parts of the body as you listen to each audio file.
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.