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The Human Skeleton Interactive

The Human Skeleton Interactive

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In this skeletal system instructional activity, students label a diagram with the names of 12 bones in the human body. Students label the human skeleton in this online interactive instructional activity by dragging the names of the bones to their appropriate boxes.

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the skeletal system, human body systems

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human skeleton, names of bones in the human body, skeletal system, science

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5th - 7th

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