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American Museum of Natural History

What's This?: Early Humans

For Students 6th - 12th
Early humans crafted shelters out of whatever materials they could find. A one-question quiz asks learners to identify the type of bones used to construct the hut pictured in a display.
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American Museum of Natural History

Going Gobi: The Hunt for Fossils in Mongolia

For Students 6th - 12th
Take a trip on a fossil hunt. Pupils read about a trip to the Gobi Desert by a group of paleontologists to find fossils. Learners view pictures taken on the trip and determine what the scientists go through in the search for answers to...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Biology for Kids: List of Human Bones

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about all the human bones in this list and pictures of the skeleton.
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Other

U.s. Department of Health and Human Services: Best Bones Forever

For Students 3rd - 8th
Information, advice, activities, stories, and games about the importance of healthy bones for women and girls.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Skeletons and Bones at Enchanted Learning

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this Enchanted Learning site, teachers and students will find great skeleton crafts, activities, and printouts.
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U.s. Department of Health and Human Services: Best Bones Forever!

For Students 4th - 8th
Lesson plans and activities to encourage girls to get physically active and to snack on foods that make healthy bones. Gives basic facts about bones and relates how eating foods with calcium and vitamin D gives a person strong bones....
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Untamed Science

Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Skeletal System

For Students 9th - 10th
Make learning about the human skeletal system fun with full-color diagrams. Read about the structure and function of the body's 206 bones.
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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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PBS

Pbs News Hour Extra: Scientists Discover Oldest Human Ancestor

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists have recently published their research into fossil bones from Ethiopia that they say came from an ancestor common to both humans and chimpanzees. They have named the ancestor Ardipithecus ramidus. In the articles and video,...
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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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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...
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Other

Zygote: Zygote Anatomy Collection

For Students 9th - 10th
A 3D anatomical product that allows students to explore the muscles, bones, organs, skin, and blood vessels that compose the human body.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers, Nova: Little People of Flores: Compare the Brains

For Students 9th - 10th
Compare and contrast the shape and size of a Homo floresiensis brain with the brain of a chimp and a modern human.
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Curated OER

Kids Health: Your Teeth

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource provides this illustrated article about human teeth.
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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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Language Guide

Language Guide: El Cuerpo Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A very extensive guide of the internal parts of the body. Here you can practice the correct Spanish (of Spain) pronunciation of the internal parts of the body as you listen to each audio file.

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