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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Fighting Back!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson describes the major components and functions of the immune system and the role of engineers in keeping the body healthy (e.g., vaccinations and antibiotics, among other things). This lesson also discusses how an astronaut's...
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North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

Ncrel: Human Body Systems Resource

For Students 9th - 10th
What do you know about the different human body systems? This site features information on each of the different systems. Students and teachers will benefit from this comprehensive resource.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Functions of Human Life

For Students 9th - 10th
The different organ systems each have different functions and therefore unique roles to perform in physiology. These many functions can be summarized in terms of a few that we might consider definitive of human life. Learn here about 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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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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Cartage: Normal Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
This thorough resource provides listing of ten unique characteristics peculiar to the cardiovascular system along with an examination of these ten factors individually.
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Other

Cartage.org: Abnormal Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Causes of heart failure, signs and characteristics of heart failure, pathologic conditions resulting in heart failure, and more are the topics addressed in this thorough resource.
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Other

Look d.com: Fish Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from LookD.com provides information about bony fish circulation systems. The article is very brief, only one paragraph in length, but worth checking out on the subject.
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Other

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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Other

University of Western Australia: Integumentary System

For Students 9th - 10th
A resource for advanced anatomy and physiology classes. It contains information on the integumentary system, the epidermis, the dermis, hair, sebaceous glands, and sweat glands. Microscopic images are included.
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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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Abdominal Cavity and Laparoscopic Surgery

For Teachers 10th - 12th
For students interested in studying biomechanical engineering, especially in the field of surgery, this lesson serves as an anatomy and physiology primer of the abdominopelvic cavity. Students are introduced to the abdominopelvic...
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Sea World Parks & Entertainment

Sea World: Sharks and Rays

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides extensive information about sharks and their relatives. Content includes a focus on a shark's habitat, distribution, physical characteristics, senses, behavior, diet, reproduction, anatomy and physiology,...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: The Skull

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive site provides all kinds of information regarding the human skull.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Human Body Systems

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces students to some of the major organs of the human body. Visual aids provide focused information on the heart and circulatory system as well as the brain and the eye.
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Other

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System (Professair's Mad Lab)

For Students 1st - 9th
Have fun learning about the human body's respiratory system while playing games in Professair's Mad Lab! These interactive games have colorful graphics and are broken into three grade groupings: grades one to three, four to six, and...
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Other

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System (Grades 7 12 Teacher Resources)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This teacher's resource page accompanies the student website ?Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System? for grades seven through twelve from the Canadian Lung Association. This site walks teachers through the features of the student...
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Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System (Grades 4 6 Teacher Resources)

For Teachers 4th - 7th
This teacher's resource page accompanies the student website "Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System" for grades four through six from the Canadian Lung Association. This site walks teachers through the features of the student...
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University of Washington

University of Washington: Nose Structure and Function

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses how the structures of the noseinteract to produce our sense of smell.Has links to lab activities and teacher lessonson this topic.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Polluted Air = Polluted Lungs

For Teachers 4th - 7th
To gain a better understanding of the roles and functions of components of the human respiratory system and our need for clean air, students construct model lungs that include a diaphragm and chest cavity. They see how air moving in and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Kidney Filtering

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students filter different substances through a plastic window screen, different sized hardware cloth and poultry netting. Their model shows how the thickness of a filter in the kidney is imperative in deciding what will...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Muscles, Oh My!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
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...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Body Circulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers are introduced to the circulatory system, the heart, and blood flow in the human body. Through guided pre-reading, during-reading and post-reading activities, students learn about the circulatory system's parts,...

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