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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Smooth, Skeletal, and Cardiac Muscles

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An overview of the three types of human muscle tissues.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Muscle Tissue and Motion

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn here all about muscle tissue, which is tissue with properties that allow movement.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Muscles, Muscles Everywhere

For Teachers 4th - 7th
This activity helps students learn about the three different types of muscles and how outer space affects astronauts' muscles. They will discover how important it is for astronauts to get adequate exercise both on Earth and in outer...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Naming Muscles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site helps you understand where muscles get their names. When you understand the names of muscles it will help you remember where the muscles are located and what they do
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Walk, Run, Jump!

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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BBC

Bbc: Applied Anatomy and Physiology: Muscles and Movement

For Students 3rd - 5th
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...
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Eastern Kentucky University

Eku: Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy Skeletal System

For Students 9th - 10th
Lecture notes and diagrams about the skeletal system. Also includes a link to more lecture notes.
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My Science Site

Different Types of Cells: Muscle, Blood, Sensory, Germ Cells [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Page providing colorful illustrations of blood cells, sensory cells, muscle tissue, and epithelial cells.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.9 Muscles

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn about the different types of muscles in the human body.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Human Skeletal System

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How important is your skeleton? Can you imagine your body without it? You would be a wobbly pile of muscle and internal organs, and you would not be able to move....
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Other

Biology Guide: Human Life Span

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the human life-span. Some topics investigated in the tutorial are reproduction, nervous system, skeletal muscle, and homeostasis.
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Other

University of Delaware: Muscle Tissue

For Students 9th - 10th
An impressive array of muscle tissue pictures for viewing within the classroom.
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Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Human Biology: Musculatory System

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the three types of muscle tissue, how a muscle contracts, and how muscles are adapted for exercise. [3:40]
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Move Your Muscles!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This activity 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...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Caribbean Sea: Antilles: How Does a Skeleton Work?

For Students 1st - 3rd
James identifies bones of the skeletal system and teaches us how they work with our muscular system for our body to function. Learn about the skeletal system, bone identification and muscle function. For every correct answer you can gain...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Bones, Muscles, and Joints

For Students 9th - 10th
This article from Family Doctor.org provides in depth terminology and helpful diagrams. This site has links to related articles to learn more about the musculoskeletal system.
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National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Muscular System

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Activity
Curated OER

Kids Health: How the Body Works Movies and Activities

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Muscular System Study Guide

For Students 4th - 9th
Review the structure and function of the human body's muscular system.
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University of Kansas Medical Center

University of Kansas Medical Center: Muscular System

For Students 9th - 10th
Study several microscopic specimens taken from the three different types of muscle tissues: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac.
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Science Bob Pflugfelder

Science Bob: Body Zone: The Muscular System

For Students 3rd - 8th
This introduction to the muscular system of the body describes the three different types of muscles: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Human Body

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Engineering and the Human Body unit covers the broad spectrum of topics that make up our very amazing human body. Students are introduced to the space environment and learn the major differences between the environment on Earth and...
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Other

Get Body Smart: Human Anatomy and Physiology: System Quizzes

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of interactive, self-checking quizzes on human body systems. Covers muscular, skeletal, circulatory, nervous, and respiratory systems.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Exercise, Nutrition, Hormones, and Bone Tissue

For Students 9th - 10th
All of the organ systems of your body are interdependent, and the skeletal system is no exception. The food you take in via your digestive system and the hormones secreted by your endocrine system affect your bones. Even using your...

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