BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Microgravity
In this lesson young scholars will use water balloons to simulate the effects of gravity and microgravity on fluid distribution in the body.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Digestion Simulation
To reinforce students' understanding of the human digestion process, the functions of several stomach and small intestine fluids are analyzed, and the concept of simulation is introduced through a short, introductory demonstration of how...
Other
British Nutrition Foundation: Food a Fact of Life: Dietary Fibre and Water
A collection of downloadable resources on the sources of dietary fiber, what it does, the benefits to human health, sources of our water intake, its role in our bodies, and fluid balance. Includes PowerPoints, reference materials, and...
OpenStax
Open Stax: College Physics: Flow Rate and Its Relation to Velocity
In this section of the textbook learn how to define and calculate flow rate. Also learn the differences and similarities between flow rate and fluid velocity. Section also relates flow rate to processes in the body like calculating flow...
Other
Lens Shopper: Anatomy of the Eye
Learn about the human body's own "camera" as you explore the inner workings of the human eye. This resource is displayed as a three-dimensional, interactive animation.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Designing Medical Devices for the Ear
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...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Microfluidic Devices and Flow Rate
Students obtain a basic understanding of microfluidic devices, how they are developed and their uses in the medical field. After conducting the associated activity, they watch a video clip and learn about flow rate and how this relates...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: What Does the Liver Do?
There's a factory inside you that weighs about 1.4 kilograms and runs for 24 hours a day. It's your liver: the heaviest organ in your body, which simultaneously acts as a storehouse, a manufacturing hub, and a processing plant. This...
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Blood
What is blood? Discover how and why blood travels in the body, the three main types of blood cells, and the different blood types.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: A Scale Under Water
This passage will test your knowledge on fluids at rest.
Other
The Internet Dermatology Society: Anatomy of the Skin
Despite the title of the page, this site explores the entire integumentary system, including skin, hair and nails. Content also includes the cutaneous sensory and cutaneous vascular systems, pigmentary system, sweat glands, sebaceous...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Circulation and the Lymphatic System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The lymphatic system is a network of vessels and tissues that carry a clear fluid called lymph. The lymphatic system works with the cardiovascular system to return...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Barriers to Pathogens
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains the body's first line of defense against pathogens, such as the skin and body fluids.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Electrolytes
What happens when your blood is tested for electrolytes? Find the answer to this question, and learn how electrolytes, like sodium, potassium, and chloride, function in the body and keep you healthy.
Other
The Flow of the Aqueous Humor
A detailed diagram of where the aqueous fluid comes from and what its function is.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Fascinating Friction!
In this activity, students use wood, wax paper and oil to investigate the importance of lubrication between materials and to understand the concept of friction. Using wax paper and oil placed between pieces of wood, the function of...
Other
Partnership for a Drug Free America: Pcp
This site from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America is organized in question/answer format, this website provides a good introduction for students wanting to know about PCP and its hazardous effects on the human body and brain.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Zoom Printables & Activities
Fantastic variety of printable activities that cover motion-related principles. Topics include the following: experiments (engineering, structures, forces and energy, fluids, sound and light, patterns, human body); arts & crafts;...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Surgical Device Engineering
This unit focuses on teaching students about the many aspects of biomedical engineering (BME). Students will see that it is a broad field that relies on concepts from each of the other disciplines of engineering. They will also begin to...
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Urinary System
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human urinary system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Estrella Mountain Community College: Cell Organization
Description of organelles. Links will take you to a glossary with pictures for many of the definitions. Ends with a quiz linked to answers.
Estrella Mountain Community College
Estrella Mountain Community College: Phylum Annelida
This section (in table of contents as "Phylum Annelida: Segmented Worms") gives a description of how segmented worms developed certain characteristics as well as it explains the differences in the evolution of different classes of...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Women and Minorities
Although the colonial period produced several women writers of note, the revolutionary era did not further the work of women and minorities, despite the many schools, magazines, newspapers, and literary clubs that were springing up....
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Do Your Kidneys Work?
After drinking a few glasses of water on a hot day, you might be struck with a sudden urge. Behind that feeling are two bean-shaped organs that work as fine-tuned internal sensors. This video describes how the incredible kidneys balance...