Sophia Learning
Sophia: Animals: Human Muscular System: Lesson 1
This lesson provides an overview that explains the muscular system in humans. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Muscular System."
Curated OER
Kids Health: How the Body Works Movies and Activities
Short, colorful movies explain each of the body's systems: skeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, urinary, respiratory, endocrine, skin, immune, muscular, and nervous. Once you've seen the movie, click on the Activity Page link for...
Other
Get Body Smart: Functional Anatomy of Skeletal Muscles
Brought to you by Get Body Smart, students can learn about the human musculoskeletal system through this easy-to-access tutorial. Sections include muscles that act on the arm, shoulder, forearm, wrist, palm, digits, anterior thigh,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Fluid Statics: Pressures in the Body
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the concept of pressure in the human body; explain systolic and diastolic blood pressures; and describe pressures in the eye, lungs, spinal column, bladder, and skeletal system.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: The Living Skeleton: A Tour of Human Bones
Take a tour of the human skeleton and see computer images of various bones of the body, including the normal bone and bones that have anomalies.
Other
Biology Guide: Human Life Span
Students learn about the human life-span. Some topics investigated in the tutorial are reproduction, nervous system, skeletal muscle, and homeostasis.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Main Bones of the Skeleton
Thirty six question quiz tests the users knowledge of the main bones of the body.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Smooth, Skeletal, and Cardiac Muscles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Identify and describe the primary types of human muscle tissue.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Forced to Fracture
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...
Library of Congress
Loc: Everyday Mysteries: What Is the Strongest Muscle?
There are a variety of ways one can look at what might be the strongest muscle in the body. This site defines the various types of muscles and goes on to explain which would be considered the strongest.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Muscular System Study Guide
Review the structure and function of the human body's muscular system.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: Anatomy Image Bank
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.
eSkeletons
E Skeletons Project
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.
Other
Mananatomy.com: Classification of Bones
Four different types of human bone classifications are discussed through text and pictures. Shape, development, region, and structure classifications are further divided into the variety of bones each entails.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Smooth, Skeletal, and Cardiac Muscles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of the three types of human muscle tissues.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Bones and Human Skeleton
Kids learn about the science of bones and the human skeleton. How they keep us together and protect us from harm.
Biology Corner
Biology Corner: Anatomy: Skeletal System: Flash Cards
Printable collection of drawings of bones in the human body, suitable for testing knowledge of particular structures.
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...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: List of Human Bones
Kids learn about all the human bones in this list and pictures of the skeleton.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Human Skeleton
This site has a basic description of the human skeleton supplemented with a picture of the major bones that make up the skeleton.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Skeleton
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the human skeleton and its bones.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Human Skeleton
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart simply explores the names of the bones in the human body.
Other
Institute of Human Origins: Classifying Life
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...