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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Designing Medical Devices for the Ear

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students are introduced to biomedical engineering and the engineering design process through a short lecture and an activity in which they design their own medical devices for retrieving foreign bodies from the ear canal. They learn...
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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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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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Put Your Heart Into Engineering

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity contains background about the blood vascular system and the heart. Also, the different sizes of capillaries, veins, and arteries, and how they affect blood flow through the system. We will then proceed to talk about the...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy of Selected Synovial Joints

For Students 9th - 10th
This site examines the anatomy of selected synovial joints of the body.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Fractures and Bone Repair

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a plethora of information regarding fractures and bone repair.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Cytoplasm and Cellular Organelles

For Students 9th - 10th
The organelles and cytosol, taken together, comprise a cell's cytoplasm. This interactive site provides information regarding cytoplasm and cellular organelles.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Diseases, Disorders, and Injuries of the Integumentary System

For Students 9th - 10th
The integumentary system is susceptible to a variety of diseases, disorders, and injuries. These range from annoying but relatively benign bacterial or fungal infections that are categorized as disorders, to skin cancer and severe burns,...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Development and Regeneration of Muscle Tissue

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an explanation of the development and regeneration of muscle tissue.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Cell Growth and Division

For Students 9th - 10th
The following site provides information regarding the process of cell growth and division.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Bone Formation and Development

For Students 9th - 10th
This learning module explains bone formation and development. Learn about cartiage, intramembranous ossification, endochondral ossification and bone remodeling.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Axial Muscles of the Abdominal Wall and Thorax

For Students 9th - 10th
It is a complex job to balance the body on two feet and walk upright. Learn here all about the axial muscles of the abdominal wall and thorax.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Appendicular Muscles of the Pelvic Girdle and Lower Limbs

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides interactive information regarding the appendicular muscles of the pelvic girdle and lower limbs.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Basic Structure and Function of the Nervous System

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn here about the basic structure and function of the nervous system.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Nucleus and Dna Replication

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains the nucleus, the control center of a cell, and DNA replication.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Elements and Atoms, the Building Blocks of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an overview of elements and atoms, the building blocks of matter.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Axial Muscles of the Head, Neck, and Back

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

Look d.com: Fish Anatomy

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is given by LookD.com, provides a basic overview of fish anatomy. The information is medium in length, and factual, making it worth checking out on the subject.
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Sea World Parks & Entertainment

Sea World: Bony Fishes

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a wealth of information regarding bony fishes. Content includes a focus on their habitat, distribution, physical characteristics, senses, behavior, diet and eating habits, reproduction, anatomy and physiology, and...
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Other

National Aquarium in Baltimore: Squid Lab [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This handbook is intended to be used before and after an aquarium visit but can be used on its own. It has information about cephalopods, with a focus on the squid. Young scholars learn about squid anatomy and physiology, survival...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Skeletal System

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Through this unit, written for an honors anatomy and physiology class, students become familiar with the human skeletal system and answer the Challenge Question: When you get home from school, your mother grabs you, and you race to the...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Cellular Differentiation

For Students 9th - 10th
The process of cellular differentiation leads cells to assume their final morphology and physiology - learn here all about this process.
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Other

Get Body Smart: Histology Links

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed for students and teacher of anatomy and physiology, GetBodySmart offers free tutorials and quizzes from a wide-variety of resources, including the nation's top researchers and universities.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: My Mechanical Ear Can Hear!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners are introduced to various types of hearing impairments and the types of biomedical devices that engineers have designed to aid people with this physical disability.

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