In this lesson plan learners will learn the basics about the skeletal system. They will be able to identify the major bones of the human body and explain the functions of the skeletal system. The students will have the opportunity to...

This life-sized printout will help students learn about the human skeleton and identify some of the important bones of the human body.

This instructional activity describes the function and components of the human nervous system. It helps young scholars understand the purpose of our brain, spinal cord, nerves and the five senses. How the nervous system is affected...

An interactive labeling exercise helps students practice naming parts of the largest organ in the human body, the skin.

Mariven lives in Barbados. He is going on a diving adventure to learn all about bones and muscles of the human body.

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...

After reading about the functions and jobs of a healthy colon and rectum, read about what happens when these parts of the human body become afflicted with cancer.

This article talks about the vitamin C content in fruits. Learn how ripening and storage affect vitamin C, what the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamin C is, and how vitamin C affects the human body.

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.

[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.

Take a look at blood pressure in the human body.

Understand the structure and function of a nerve cell, and how messages are transmitted throughout the human body.

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 probes how biometrics technologies have been used worldwide to address security and identification systems. After exploring different biometric techniques, learners work in teams to find their own hand geometry biometrics, then...

Thirty six question quiz tests the users knowledge of the main bones of the body.

[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.

In this lesson plan students will use water balloons to simulate the effects of gravity and microgravity on fluid distribution in the body.

A list of the Nobel Prize winners in Physiology or Medicine (updated yearly). Click on the names for more information.

Learn the anatomy of the posterior trunk and arm.

Learn the anatomy of the anterior thigh and leg.

Learn the anatomy of the posterior shoulder and upper arm.

Learn the anatomy of the posterior forearm.

Learn the anatomy of the anterior forearm.

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...