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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Albrecht Von Haller

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Swiss scientist sometimes referred to as the father of modern physiology.
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University of Missouri

University of Missouri: Determining Age of Horses by Their Teeth

For Students 9th - 10th
Can the age of horses be determined by looking at their teeth? Yes it can and this competent site explains how to do it.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Do You Have the Strength?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this activity, students squeeze a tennis ball to demonstrate the strength of the human heart. Working in teams, they think of ways to keep the heart beating if the natural mechanism were to fail. The goal of this activity is to get...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Just Passing Through

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson helps students explore the functions of the kidney and its place in the urinary system. Students learn how engineers design instruments to help people when kidneys are not functioning properly or when environmental conditions...
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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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Beat Goes On

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students learn about their heart rate and different ways it can be measured. Students construct a simple measurement device using clay and a toothpick, and then use this device to measure their heart rate under...
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Inner Body

Innerbody: Diaphragm

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Innerbody.com has an illustration as well as detailed text explaining the function of the Diaphragm. See Images - Diaphragm and Descriptions - Diaphragm
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Just Breathe

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore the inhalation/exhalation process that occurs in the lungs during respiration. Using everyday materials, they create a model pair of lungs.
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Other

Whitman College: Virtual Fetal Pig Dissection

For Students 9th - 10th
A supplement to lab dissections exploring introductory mammalian anatomy and physiology, for a fetal pig.
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US National Library of Medicine

Medline Plus: Stress Echocardiography

For Students 9th - 10th
A stress echocardiogram can help a doctor see how the heart responds to exercise. This tutorial explains how the test works and its risks and benefits.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: The Virtual Knee Replacement Surgery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students will take on the role of the Surgeon throughout a total knee replacement surgery. Great lesson for an Anatomy and Physiology class with a focus on the Skeletal System.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: A Comparative Approach to Animal Dissections (A Phylogenic Study)

For Students 9th - 10th
In this biology inquiry lab, students study evolutionary relationships by making observations of preserved animal specimens, developing a question, then investigating by dissecting the specimens provided. This comparative approach offers...
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University of Arizona

University of Arizona: Lung Toxicology Problem Set

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive module will help you understand the basic anatomy and physiology of the respiratory organs, primarily the lungs. You will learn about lung development, respiratory toxicology, secondhand tobacco smoke, asthma, and lung...
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Stanford University

Sea Urchin Images

For Students 9th - 10th
Free, downloadable images on a variety of topics related to urchin development, anatomy and physiology. Useful for teaching, worksheets and reports.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:kamchatka: Land of Abundant Salmon

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Identify the three main groups of fishes and identify external and internal bony fish anatomy and physiology. Examine the Kamchatka ecosystem and the role of salmon in the food web, and describe the salmon spawning cycle.
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University of California

The Auscultation Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed for medical students, this site gives a detailed description of the sounds of the heart and lungs, including disorders, while playing read audio of those sounds with each description. Suitable for upper level high school...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Types of Body Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information regarding types of body movement. Movement types are generally paired, with one being the opposite of the other. Body movements are always described in relation to the anatomical position of the body:...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Skeletal Muscle

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes information about skeletal muscles, of which the best-known feature is its ability to contract and cause movement.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Smooth Muscle

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an explanation of smooth muscle, muscle that is present in the walls of hollow organs like the urinary bladder, uterus, stomach, intestines, and in the walls of passageways, such as the arteries and veins of the...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Interactions of Skeletal Muscles

For Students 9th - 10th
This site rpovides information regarding the interactions of skeletal muscles, including their fascicle arrangement and their lever systems.
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Curated OER

Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.
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Curated OER

Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.
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Curated OER

Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.
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Curated OER

Leffingwell and Associates: Olfaction

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a technical discussion of the anatomy and physiology involved in the receptors associated with the sense of smell. Includes pictures and formulas.

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