Curated OER
Kids Health: How the Body Works
A colorful, interactive site for kids and teens. A holistic approach to learning about your body, including topics such as feelings, drugs, injuries, and other health issues. Available in Spanish.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Bone Up!
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...
SEN Teacher
Sen Teacher: Label a Skeleton: Free Education Software
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fascinating Friction!
In this activity, students use wood, wax paper and oil to investigate the importance of lubrication between materials and to understand the concept of friction. Using wax paper and oil placed between pieces of wood, the function of...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Diving School: How Do We Move?
Mariven lives in Barbados. He is going on a diving adventure to learn all about bones and muscles of the human body.
University of Texas at Austin
E Fossils: Juvenile Modern Homo Sapiens [Pdf]
This life-sized printout will help students learn about the human skeleton and identify some of the important bones of the human body.
Other
University of Wyoming: Make Learning Real: Virtual Skeleton
Collection of images of bones in the human skeleton, captured with QuickTime VR, can be rotated and viewed from different angles.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Mexico: What Is a Skeleton?
Isabel celebrates the Day of the Dead in Mexico, for which many people dress up like skeletons. She wants to teach her brother Carlos about the skeleton and some different bones. This interactive module helps young learners understand...
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Prosthetic Party
Student teams investigate biomedical engineering and the technology of prosthetics. Students create a model prosthetic lower leg using various materials. Each team demonstrate its prosthesis' strength and consider its pros and cons,...
Other
A Look Inside: Human Body
Learn how our body works at this personal site from a fourth grade teacher. Colorful graphics and lots of fun facts.
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: El Sistema Oseo Test [In Spanish]
Test your knowledge of major bones of the human body.
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: El Sistema Oseo [In Spanish]
Learn the names of major bones of the human 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.
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.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Axial and Appendicular Skeleton Parts Quiz
41 question quiz relates to medical terms associated with the axial and appendicular skeleton.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Our Amazing Skeleton
This lesson plan covers the topic of human bones and joints. Learners 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...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.8 Joints
Understand the structure and function of different types of joints in the human body.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Moving and Growing
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this unit children learn about how the skeleton is related to movement and support in humans and what happens to the skeleton and muscles as they move. They also compare human bones and skeletons...
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is a Skeleton?
Are humans born with 206 bones? Find out what the skeleton is.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Parts of You
This site is provided for by the American Forum for Global Education. Exploration of body parts is the format used to teach the economic concept of interdependence to primary students.