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ClassFlow

Class Flow: People Grow and Change

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a 2nd grade unit on how the human body changes, as well as lessons on the heart and lungs, bones and muscles, and the digestive system. This unit includes web links to some fun informational...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Muscle Fibers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Muscles are made of fibers within fibers and the structure of muscles makes them strong. In this lesson students learn about muscle structure by comparing yarn and cooked meat.
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Curated OER

Kidshealth: Broken Bones, Sprains, and Strains

For Students 9th - 10th
What happens when you break a bone or get a strain or sprain? Find the answer at this website, and also find instruction sheets on first-aid care for broken bones, strains, and sprains.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Exercise, Nutrition, Hormones, and Bone Tissue

For Students 9th - 10th
All of the organ systems of your body are interdependent, and the skeletal system is no exception. The food you take in via your digestive system and the hormones secreted by your endocrine system affect your bones. Even using your...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: What a Pain! Kids and Growing Pains

For Students 3rd - 5th
Growing up is something that most kids can't wait to do. As you grow up, you might experience growing pains. Use this site to learn more about the reasons for growing pains and what to do about them.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Development of the Appendicular Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn here about the development of the appendicular skeleton - the appendicular skeleton arises from mesenchyme, a type of embryonic tissue that can differentiate into many types of tissues, including bone or muscle tissue.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Caribbean Sea: Antilles: How Does a Skeleton Work?

For Students 1st - 3rd
James identifies bones of the skeletal system and teaches us how they work with our muscular system for our body to function. Learn about the skeletal system, bone identification and muscle function. For every correct answer you can gain...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Forces and Torques in Muscles and Joints

For Students 11th - 12th
From a chapter on Statics and Torque in a Physics textbook. This section of the chapter provides an in-depth discussion of forces and torque in the human body. We learn about muscular force, the importance of posture in preventing back...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Gravity and Buoyancy

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In the following lesson for grades 6-8, students learn about environments with gravity and those with reduced gravity by observing the behavior of a water-filled plastic bag, both inside and outside of a container of water.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Skeletal Muscles

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the structure of skeletal muscles and how they move bones.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Strains and Sprains Are a Pain

For Students 3rd - 5th
In addition to describing how one might get a strain or sprain, this article offers well-organized, clear advice for those caring for their sprained or strained muscles. Links to related information included.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Human Body

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The Engineering and the Human Body unit covers the broad spectrum of topics that make up our very amazing human body. Students are introduced to the space environment and learn the major differences between the environment on Earth and...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.10 Skeletal Muscles

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn about the skeletal muscles of the human body.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Diving School: How Do We Move?

For Students 4th - 6th
Mariven lives in Barbados. He is going on a diving adventure to learn all about bones and muscles of the human body.
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National Institutes of Health

Nih Curriculum Supplement for Middle School: Looking Good, Feeling Good

For Teachers 6th - 9th
A great resource from the Office of Science Education which provides a curriculum for teaching about the musculoskeletal system, the skin system and how they interact. This curriculum emphasizes choices teens can make to ensure good...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Arm Model

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In the following lesson plan students are required to construct a model arm and learn how muscles and bones work together to achieve efficient movement.
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Akron Children's Hospital

Akron Children's Hospital: Kids Health: Musculos Y Articulaciones

For Students 3rd - 8th
These slides shows the different muscles, bones, cartilage, ligaments and tendons around the knee. The page is also available in English.
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Muscular System

For Students 9th - 10th
In this resource, students learn the major role of the muscular system, about muscle fibers, the role of ATP and calcium in muscle contraction, how muscles move bones, and how muscles respond to aerobic and anaerobic exercise.
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BBC

Bbc: First Aid Procedures

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to treat many kinds of medical emergencies, such as bleeding and bruising, burns and scalds, poisoning and allergic reactions, scene of emergency, respiratory problems, and bone, joint and muscle problems.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Human Skeletal System

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How important is your skeleton? Can you imagine your body without it? You would be a wobbly pile of muscle and internal organs, and you would not be able to move....
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Moving and Growing

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this unit children learn about how the skeleton is related to movement and support in humans and what happens to the skeleton and muscles as they move. They also compare human bones and skeletons...
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Going to a Physical Therapist

For Students 3rd - 5th
There are different reasons for going to a physical therapist. Kids go there, as do older people. Sometimes kids go to help them get well after a minor injury, like a broken arm or leg. Some kids go because they have a physical...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Our Amazing Skeleton

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson covers the topic of human bones and joints. Learners learn about the skeleton, the number of and types of bones in the body, and how outer space affects astronauts' bones. Students also learn how to take care of their bones...

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