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Mananatomy.com: Classification of Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
Four different types of human bone classifications are discussed through text and pictures. Shape, development, region, and structure classifications are further divided into the variety of bones each entails.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Science for Kids: Bones and Human Skeleton

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science of bones and the human skeleton. How they keep us together and protect us from harm.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Let's Explore What Our Bones Are For"

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson is a hands-on, technology based science lesson. It is very interactive! Students are engaged at all times. Students will explore the human body through a "virtual field trip." While exploring the human body they will discover...
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Human Skeleton

For Students 3rd - 8th
This site has a basic description of the human skeleton supplemented with a picture of the major bones that make up the skeleton.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Super People: Getting the Minerals Out

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Explore the composition and physiology of bones, describe how humans lose bone mass and explain how this becomes a challenge for extended space flight. Compare and contrast the decalcifying properties of several liquids.
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Zygote Media Group: Zygote Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Get a 3D look into the anatomical structure of the human body with this website. Website allows students to explore the body's muscle system, bone structure, organs, and nerve systems. Navigate around the human body with this site!
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Exploring Nature

Exploring Nature Educational Resource: Skeletal System

For Students 5th - 9th
A collection of illustrated fact sheets and activities on the parts of the human skeletal system and their functions.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Science Safari: The First People

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Emulate the work of archaeologists in South Africa attempting to solve the riddles of human evolution by inferring a person's height from the length of one bone. Identify and communicate present-day rituals through ancient art techniques.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is a Skeleton?

For Students 2nd - 5th
Are humans born with 206 bones? Find out what the skeleton is.
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National Aviary: Curriculum: Wings to Fly

For Students 3rd - 8th
Richly illustrated interactive activity leads you through an investigation of bird wings. Includes interesting comparisons of the bones in a bird's wings with those in human arms and of the design of wings in birds versus planes.

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