CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Human Skeletal System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How important is your skeleton? Can you imagine your body without it? You would be a wobbly pile of muscle and internal organs, and you would not be able to move....
Pennsylvania State University
Pennsylvania State University: Skeletal System
In this resource, you will access photographs of the human skeletal system. A quiz is associated with each image which has numbered labels on the skeletal parts. Create a numbered list and write down the name for each part, then check...
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Skeletal System
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human skeletal system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Biology: Human Biology: Skeletal System
Make learning about the human skeletal system fun with full-color diagrams. Read about the structure and function of the body's 206 bones.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Skeletal System
Through this unit, written for an honors anatomy and physiology class, students become familiar with the human skeletal system and answer the Challenge Question: When you get home from school, your mother grabs you, and you race to the...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Learn the Skeletal System: Label the Bones
How well do you know the human skeletal system? Take advantage of this interactive program by matching bone names to the illustration or by assembling the skeleton.
McGraw Hill
Glencoe Biology: The Skeletal System: Self Check Quiz
Try these five multiple-choice questions about the skeletal system. After submitting answers, students can review the material.
Other
Bones and Skeletal System
This thorough site delves into the structure of the bone, the main bones in the human skeleton (definition and pictures), and a comparison of the male and female pelvis.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Skeletal System
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains the major functions of the skeletal system: support, protection, and movement.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Skeletal System Game
Test your knowledge of the human skeletal system with this interactive labeling exercise.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Skeletal System Quiz
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over the human skeletal system, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
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....
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
Katharine Lady Berkeley's School: The Human Skeleton
This is an interactive exercise where students drag labels to the various bones of a skeleton as a timer counts the seconds. There are two links at the bottom of the page that take you to another page with a labeling exercise, and a...
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: The Living Skeleton: A Tour of Human Bones
Take a tour of the human skeleton and see computer images of various bones of the body, including the normal bone and bones that have anomalies.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Main Bones of the Skeleton
Thirty six question quiz tests the users knowledge of the main bones of the body.
Other
Institute of Human Origins: Classifying Life
In this exercise you will build two skeletons, one of an ape and one of a modern human being. The bones have been completely mixed up so its up to you to find the right fit. In this exercise you will learn about the unique...
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Skeletons and Bones at Enchanted Learning
In this Enchanted Learning site, teachers and students will find great skeleton crafts, activities, and printouts.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Forced to Fracture
Students 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 collaborate to...
Biology Corner
Biology Corner: Anatomy: Skeletal System: Flash Cards
Printable collection of drawings of bones in the human body, suitable for testing knowledge of particular structures.
Read Works
Read Works: Bones on the Go!
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the human skeleton and some of its stronger bones. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
eSkeletons
E Skeletons Project
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the eSkeletons Project provides interactive views of bones. Various menus allow you to review the bones of the human skeleton and compare them to the bone structures of nine primates.
Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Medical Education Network: Welcome to the Bone Box
An interactive site that provides a picture of a skeleton segment. On the picture is a number with a line pointing to a part of the skeleton. When you click on the number the part is identified.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: List of Human Bones
Kids learn about all the human bones in this list and pictures of the skeleton.