Following along with their teacher, students learn about the various upper body muscles we have such as the bicep and pectoral muscles and learn how to give them a good stretch and exercise.

This lesson depicts students following along with their teacher to learn about lower body muscles. Students learn about muscles such as the gluteal and hamstring and how to give them a good stretch and exercise.

The skeletal muscles are divided into two categories: the axial, muscles of the trunk and head, and the appendicular, muscles of the arms and legs. Learn here all about the axial muscles.

Learn about the skeletal muscles of the human body.

Everything you've ever needed to know about muscles. To be used as classroom notes or a supplement for learning.

Learn here all about muscle tissue, which is tissue with properties that allow movement.

This University of Michigan site has information about the movements of muscles in a human.

This lesson covers the topic of muscles. Students learn about the three different types of muscles in the human body and the effects of microgravity on muscles. Students also learn how astronauts need to exercise in order to lessen...

Learn what muscles are, how they are classified, and how they are attached to the body's skeletal system. This site contains several definitions, illustrations showing the parts of muscles, and a quiz to test your knowledge of muscles...

This activity helps students understand the significance of programming and also how the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robot's sensors assist its movement and make programming easier. Students compare human senses to robot sensors, describing...

This site includes information about skeletal muscles, of which the best-known feature is its ability to contract and cause movement.

In the following lesson young scholars are required to construct a model arm and learn how muscles and bones work together to achieve efficient movement.

Learn about the three types of muscle tissue, how a muscle contracts, and how muscles are adapted for exercise. [3:40]

Poster illustrates how muscles turn energy into movement.

Kids learn about the science of muscles in the human body. How we move and get around.

Students are introduced to how engineering closely relates to the field of biomechanics and how the muscular system produces human movement. They learn the importance of the muscular system in our daily lives, why it is important to be...

Lou Gehrig's Disease or ASL damages motor neurons which control muscle movement. Here you can find much information about this debilitating disease that rarely affects kids.

Movies of the hand muscles in action. Also has brief information on the hand muscles.

In this activity, students participate in a series of timed relay races using their skeletal muscles. The compare the movement of skeletal muscle and relate how engineers help astronauts exercise skeletal muscles in space.

Mariven lives in Barbados. He is going on a diving adventure to learn all about bones and muscles of the human body.

This resource, provided by the Parkinson's Disease Foundation, discusses the primary and secondary symptoms of Parkinson's Disease.

Make Sid move to match his father's movements and learn to identify where to find your muscles.

Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human muscular system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.

This is a virtual lab that investigates the effects of damage to eye muscles and nerves on the motion of the eyes. This lab is extremely realistic. This activity can be done as a whole class or as a demonstration.