Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: The Fore Brain or Prosencephalon

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Bartleby.com contains an intense, in-depth article from Henry Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body on the fore-brain or prosencephalon. The article discusses the thalamus throughout and touches on its functions as a whole.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Barriers to Pathogens

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following tutorial you will learn about the barriers that keep most pathogens out of the human body.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.25 Blood Pressure

For Students 5th - 9th
Take a look at blood pressure in the human body.
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.41 Nerve Impulse

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand the structure and function of a nerve cell, and how messages are transmitted throughout the human body.
Graphic
University of Utah

University of Utah: Cardiovascular Pathology Index

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features a detailed index of photographs for cardiovascular pathology. You can see what a normal human heart looks like and what a sick one looks like too. Come and check it out.
Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Hand Biometrics Technology

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson probes how biometrics technologies have been used worldwide to address security and identification systems. After exploring different biometric techniques, students work in teams to find their own hand geometry biometrics, then...
Interactive
PurposeGames

Purpose Games: Main Bones of the Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
Thirty six question quiz tests the users knowledge of the main bones of the body.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Homeostasis

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explains the process in which organ systems work to maintain a stable internal environment.
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Microgravity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson young scholars will use water balloons to simulate the effects of gravity and microgravity on fluid distribution in the body.
Handout
Other

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Winners 2008 1901

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of the Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine (updated yearly). Click on the names for more information.
Website
Gateway Community College

James Crimando: Major Superficial Muscles: Posterior Trunk and Arm

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the anatomy of the posterior trunk and arm.
Website
Gateway Community College

James Crimando:major Superficial Muscles: Anterior Thigh and Leg

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the anatomy of the anterior thigh and leg.
Website
Gateway Community College

James Crimando: Major Superficial Muscles: Posterior Shoulder and Upper Arm

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the anatomy of the posterior shoulder and upper arm.
Website
Gateway Community College

James Crimando: Major Superficial Muscles: Posterior Forearm

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the anatomy of the posterior forearm.
Website
Gateway Community College

James Crimando: Major Superficial Muscles: Anterior Forearm

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn the anatomy of the anterior forearm.
Interactive
Other

Anatomy Arcade: Poke a Muscle

For Students 9th - 10th
Work your way through the muscles as you play this game. Click on the muscle that is named to earn points. You must get all correct in order to proceed to the next level, which ensures repeated practice if you make errors. There are ten...
Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic Instructor: Super Skeletons

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learn more about the bones that make up your internal framework. This site provides learning opportunities through games, experiments, activities, and songs.
Website
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Science: Health and Medicine

For Students 9th - 10th
We have some from here but I can't tell how many as they may have video embed codes. I did find some we don't have, as well as some we do have among the embedded videos. There is also a Youtube channel at...
Interactive
PBS

Nova Online: Map of the Human Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
This PBS site has a concise explanation of how the heart works. There is also a moving diagram of a working heart.
Website
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Historical Anatomies of the Web: Albinus, Bernhard

For Students 9th - 10th
Images from the 18th century anatomy text, "Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani" by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus. There are drawings of individual bones, skeletons and musculature. The text on the images is in Latin. Title and...
Interactive
PBS

Nova: Making Vaccines

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the production of six different types of vaccines. This activity is interactive, allowing you to take part in the production of the different vaccines.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Are We Like Robots?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore the similarities between how humans move and walk and how robots move, so they come to see the human body as a system from an engineering point-of-view. Movement results from decision making (deciding to walk and move)...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Forced to Fracture

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars 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...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.8 Joints

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand the structure and function of different types of joints in the human body.

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