ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Cell Talk [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders will examine cell diagrams, then use their body, voice, and movement to become a particular part of a cell. Next, they work in pairs to create a dialogue between the different parts of the cell, exploring cell...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Billie Bird Learning About a Bird's Body
This lesson is designed to introduce young students to the various parts of bird anatomy and to express that through creative movement, poetry, and drawings.
BBC
Bbc: Applied Anatomy and Physiology: Muscles and Movement
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...
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: One Day, Computers May Decode Your Dreams
Wouldn't it be cool to read someone's mind? Maybe? Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh are developing a mind-reading computer system to hep people with nerve damage send messages from the brain to parts of the body to create...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Are Your Bowels Moving?
A detailed, kid-friendly explanation of what happens when you move your bowels.
Inner Body
Innerbody: Digestive System
Take a look inside the human body's digestive system. This site features diagrams of the digestive tract and each part is accompanied by labels and descriptions. Just select an organ by moving the mouse over its image.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Plans: Push Up Routine
Because push-ups are part of most fitness-related tests, it is important that young scholars practice push-ups and, in the process, improve upper body strength. Students able to do push-ups and able to "hold a push-up position for at...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Humans Are Like Robots
Four lessons related to robots and people present students with life sciences concepts related to the human body (including brain, nervous systems and muscles), introduced through engineering devices and subjects (including computers,...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Comte De Barras
A French Jacobin, born in Province, in 1755, of an ancient family; served as second lieutenant in the regiment of Languedoc until 1775. He made, about this time, a voyage to the Isle-de-France, the governor of which was one of his...