Curated OER
Kids Health: Your Multi Talented Muscles
At this site you will learn what muscles are made up of and find out about the different types of muscles in the body. A great illustration of a skeletal muscle is also provided. Available in Spanish.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Bones, Muscles and Joints
The anatomy of the musculoskeletal system and what the bones, muscles and joints do in our bodies are explained. Interactive diagrams show the internal structure of a bone, and how muscles and joints work together. Major disorders of the...
Library of Congress
Loc: Everyday Mysteries: What Is the Strongest Muscle?
There are a variety of ways one can look at what might be the strongest muscle in the body. This site defines the various types of muscles and goes on to explain which would be considered the strongest.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Human Body
The Engineering and the Human Body unit covers the broad spectrum of topics that make up our very amazing human body. Students are introduced to the space environment and learn the major differences between the environment on Earth and...
Curated OER
Kids Health: How the Body Works Movies and Activities
Short, colorful movies explain each of the body's systems: skeletal, cardiovascular, digestive, urinary, respiratory, endocrine, skin, immune, muscular, and nervous. Once you've seen the movie, click on the Activity Page link for...
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Muscular System
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human muscular system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Exercise, Nutrition, Hormones, and Bone Tissue
All of the organ systems of your body are interdependent, and the skeletal system is no exception. The food you take in via your digestive system and the hormones secreted by your endocrine system affect your bones. Even using your...
Other
Danil Hammoudi, Md: Anatomy and Physiology Course
This page has complete course material for a beginning human anatomy course and everything can be downloaded. There are readings and presentations on all the major systems and organs of the human body, with lots of detailed, labeled...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Forces and Torques in Muscles and Joints
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the forces exerted by muscles; state how a bad posture causes back strain; discuss the benefits of skeletal muscles attached close to joints; and discuss various complexities in the...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Caribbean Sea: Antilles: How Does a Skeleton Work?
James identifies bones of the skeletal system and teaches us how they work with our muscular system for our body to function. Learn about the skeletal system, bone identification and muscle function. For every correct answer you can gain...
Untamed Science
Untamed Science: Human Biology: Musculatory System
Learn about the three types of muscle tissue, how a muscle contracts, and how muscles are adapted for exercise. [3:40]
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Muscular System Study Guide
Review the structure and function of the human body's muscular system.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Naming Muscles
This site helps you understand where muscles get their names. When you understand the names of muscles it will help you remember where the muscles are located and what they do
BBC
Bbc: Applied Anatomy and Physiology: Muscles and Movement
Learn what muscles are, how they are classified, and how they are attached to the body's skeletal system. This site contains several definitions, illustrations showing the parts of muscles, and a quiz to test your knowledge of muscles...
University of Kansas Medical Center
University of Kansas Medical Center: Muscular System
Study several microscopic specimens taken from the three different types of muscle tissues: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Moving and Growing
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this unit children learn about how the skeleton is related to movement and support in humans and what happens to the skeleton and muscles as they move. They also compare human bones and skeletons...
Eastern Kentucky University
Eku: Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy Skeletal System
Lecture notes and diagrams about the skeletal system. Also includes a link to more lecture notes.
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: Body Zone: The Muscular System
This introduction to the muscular system of the body describes the three different types of muscles: smooth, skeletal, and cardiac.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Interactions of Skeletal Muscles
This site rpovides information regarding the interactions of skeletal muscles, including their fascicle arrangement and their lever systems.
Other
Get Body Smart: Functional Anatomy of Skeletal Muscles
Brought to you by Get Body Smart, students can learn about the human musculoskeletal system through this easy-to-access tutorial. Sections include muscles that act on the arm, shoulder, forearm, wrist, palm, digits, anterior thigh,...
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....
National Institutes of Health
Nih Curriculum Supplement for Middle School: Looking Good, Feeling Good
A great resource from the Office of Science Education which provides a curriculum for teaching about the musculoskeletal system, the skin system and how they interact. This curriculum emphasizes choices teens can make to ensure good...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Diving School: How Do We Move?
Mariven lives in Barbados. He is going on a diving adventure to learn all about bones and muscles of the human body.
University of California
Ucmp: Vertebrate Flight
A very solid Berkeley site on the structure and function of bird flight. Topics include skeletal and muscular adaptations for flight.