CK-12 Foundation
Skeletal System Joints: Appendages
The hundreds of joints in the human body fit into five main categories. A quick video explains the joints in the skeleton, which are often the most confusing. The interactive reviews each of the five types of joints and has scholars...
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Circulatory Systems
A slideshow that covers the all-important details related to basic human circulation. The reasoning for exchange of material methods is presented and then labeled diagrams of the main human transfer systems are shown, along with...
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The Human Body
Seventh graders explore the basic body systems and design a commercial advertising one of them. They also create a body systems handbook.
Virginia Department of Education
Body Systems
The human body is an amazing thing! Explore the body with your high school class as they investigate each system in detail. They learn components of each organ system and disease processes that can negatively affect general health and...
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Organ Systems
Students examine organisms that are composed of tissues, organs, and systems. They dissect a fetal pig and explore the assigned organs systems such as the skeletal, muscular, and circulatory organs. Students identify and explain their...
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Human VS Animal Skeletons
Students research and compare human and animal skeletons. They identify human skeletons basic functions and parts.
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Biomechanics of Sports
Students examine the body's major organ systems and how they function and influence each other. They examine how the human body moves when involved in sports.
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Studying Fossils
Students compare and contrast key skeletal differences between chimpanzees and humans: brain size, teeth, hand and thumb, trunk, pelvis, lower limb, foot and big toe. They then sort and group a set of mixed "fossil bones" of chimpanzee...
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Sizing Up the Supersize Croc
Young scholars examine and compare traits of humans and crocodiles. In this crocodile lesson plan students use a ratio to estimate the height of a person and compare that to a crocodile.
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MuscleMania
Learners learn three different types of muscles. By building a model of the arm, they learn its basic anatomy and how muscles function in relationship to bones. They perform an experiment on the relationship between muscle size and...
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Your Amazing Body
Students examine the different body systems and how they are interdependent on each other. In this body systems lesson plan students draw the body and its parts.
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Comparing Fossils
Learners explore early hominid evolution as they analyze bones that share characteristics of both apes and humans. Students compare and contrast key skeletal differences between chimpanzees and humans. In groups, they sort and group a...
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology
Learn about the basic organization of the body's organs and the major organ system.
eSkeletons
E Skeletons: Human
Studying the skeletal parts of a human? Click on various parts of the human skeleton and proceed to select the items to view in detail.
Other
Mananatomy.com: Classification of Bones
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.
Other
U.s. Department of Health and Human Services: Best Bones Forever!
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....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Bone Up!
In this lesson students 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 navigate...