Students explore the artwork of the Indo-Hispanic holiday of Day of the Dead. They view images, define key vocabulary terms, and plan and create a two- and three-dimensional sculptural figure.

Students analyze African American burial grounds. For this African American history lesson, students draw conclusions about African American communities in early New York and consider how archeology made it possible to study the...

Fourth graders analyze findings at African burial grounds. In this research skills lesson, 4th graders research Internet and print sources regarding African American heritage. Students discuss their findings.

In this ESL comprehension worksheet, students read a passage, then complete a variety of warm-up and pre/post reading activities. Homework suggestions are included.

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.

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...

Kids learn about the science of bones and the human skeleton. How they keep us together and protect us from harm.

[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....

Isabel celebrates the Day of the Dead in Mexico, for which many people dress up like skeletons. She wants to teach her brother Carlos about the skeleton and some different bones. This interactive module helps young learners understand...

Read about research being done to determine the age of the fossil called "Little Foot," an almost complete skeleton found in South Africa. "Little Foot" may prove to be an ancestor of humans, if some researchers are right about the age...

Take a look at the newly found species called the 'hobbit' that lived 12,000 years ago on the Flores Island and that is said to be linked to humans.

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

Read about the archaeologists who discovered the first Hominid skeleton and other ancestors of humans.

How far back in time can we date bones or skeletons? How did certain species of man just die off? What was the manner of their communication? These questions and more are answered in this informative essay.

Learn the function of the bones in the human skeletal system.

Test your knowledge of the human skeletal system with this interactive labeling exercise.

Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over the human skeletal system, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.

Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains the major functions of the skeletal system: support, protection, and movement.

[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.

Kids learn about all the human bones in this list and pictures of the skeleton.

Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and video clips, students complete this learning module on the human skeletal system.

Students will have the opportunity to learn names of many parts of the human body and how they help the body function healthy. Students will put a skeleton together to create a full human body.This lesson plan was created as a result of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage discusses the skeletonThis passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning....