Curated OER
Eating a Low-fat Nutritious Lunch
Students describe healthy and delicious lunch foods to replace junk foods. They make and eat lunch foods.
Curated OER
Eating a Nutritious Lunch
High schoolers identify the types of foods and snacks they eat for their lunch. In groups, they identify healthy foods along with unhealthy foods. They design a new lunch menu using only healthy food and identifying which food group they...
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Big Story on Bones
This detailed article on bones provides a diagram of the skeletal system, advice to keep bones healthy, and links to further related information. User has option to view Shockwave or non-Shockwave version of this website.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Sticks and Stones Will Break That Bone!
Students learn about the strength of bones and methods of helping to mend fractured bones. During a class demonstration, a chicken bone is broken by applying a load until it reaches a point of failure (fracture). Then, working as...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Keeping Bones and Joints Healthy
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] You can help keep your bones and skeletal system healthy by eating well and getting enough exercise. Weight-bearing exercises help keep bones strong. Learn more...
Curated OER
Kidshealth: Broken Bones, Sprains, and Strains
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.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: The Living Skeleton: A Tour of Human Bones
Take a tour of the human skeleton and see computer images of various bones of the body, including the normal bone and bones that have anomalies.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Fractures and Bone Repair
This site provides a plethora of information regarding fractures and bone repair.
WebMD
Web Md: Fracture
This site from WebMD Health provides great information on fractures, giving the basics, symptoms, treatment and prevention. A picture/chart is provided along with good, factual information, making this a great site to check out on the...
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Facts About Fractures and Broken Bones
What's the big deal about broken bones? This website tells what happens when a bone breaks and explains how you should take care of yourself, even after the cast comes off.
National Institutes of Health
The Nih Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases: National Resource Center
The NIH Osteoporosis and Related Bone Diseases ~ National Resource Center provide patients, health professionals, and the public with an important link to resources and information on metabolic bone diseases. The mission of NIH ORBD~NRC...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.7 Bone Health
Learn about human bones and how to keep them healthy.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Bone Crusher
Students use a tension-compression machine or an alternative bone-breaking setup to see how different bones fracture differently and with different amounts of force, depending on their body locations. Teams determine bone mass and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Forced to Fracture
Learners learn how forces affect the human skeletal system through fractures, and why certain bones are more likely to break than others depending on their design and use in the body. They learn how engineers and doctors collaborate to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Repairing Broken Bones
Students learn about how biomedical engineers aid doctors in repairing severely broken bones. They learn about using pins, plates, rods and screws to repair fractures. They do this by designing, creating and testing their own prototype...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Bone Fractures and Engineering
Learners learn about the role engineers and engineering play in repairing severe bone fractures. They acquire knowledge about the design and development of implant rods, pins, plates, screws and bone grafts. They learn about materials...
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Fractures
This site from the MayoClinic.com provides great information on fractures, or broken bones. The information is very brief with links to shock, CPR and severe bleeding. Also lets you know what to do if there is an injury or a trauma.
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: The Facts About Broken Bones
What happens when you break a bone? Learn what the doctor will do and how long it takes to heal.
Other
St. John: First Aid Tips for Fractures
Taken from the pages of the "St. John First Aid Manual," this is a good resource for learning about fractures and their symptoms, and how to take care of them in an emergency situation. Provides definitions of "Closed fracture," "Open...
University of Arizona
Bone Builders Volunteers in Maricopa County
This site is offered by a cooperative extension office that is training volunteers to teach women how to build strong bones and prevent osteoporosis.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Broken Bones
What does it feel like to have broken a bone? What kind of first aid and emergency treatment does a broken bone require? Find the answers to these questions and information on preventing broken bones.
Other
The Arthritis Webpages: Osteoporosis
This article covers several different areas related to osteoporosis, including different disease types, risk factors, and prevention and treatment measures.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: What Is Going on With Grandma?
Students are introduced to the concepts of the challenge question. First independently, and then in small groups, they generate ideas for solving the grand challenge introduced in the associated lesson: Your grandmother has a fractured...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Grand Challenge: Fix the Hip Challenge
This lesson introduces the Bone Module Grand Challenge question. Students are asked to write their initial responses to the question alone. They will then brainstorm ideas with one other student. Finally, the ideas are shared with the...