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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Deinonychus Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture shows the skull and spine of a scary looking Deinonychus skeleton, the photo was taken at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. Deinonychus was related to the Velociraptor and lived during the early Cretaceous Period...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Edmontosaurus Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture shows a reconstruction of an Edmontosaurus skeleton. Edmontosaurus was a crestless, duck-billed dinosaur that lived in the late Cretaceous Period (around 70 million years ago). The first Edmontosaurus fossils were found in...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Epachthosaurus Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture shows the skeleton of a Sauropod dinosaur called Epachthosaurus. Epachthosaurus lived in South America in the late Cretaceous Period. The photo was taken in the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Thescelosaurus Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture shows a 1915 reconstruction of a Thescelosaurus skeleton by Charles Gilmore. Thescelosaurus was a small dinosaur from the late Cretaceous Period (around 65 million years ago). Scientists estimate that it grew up to 4 metres...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Stegosaurus Skeleton

For Students 9th - 10th
This picture shows a Stegosaurus skeleton on display at the Utah Field House of Natural History in Vernal, Utah. The Stegosaurus is a well known dinosaur from the late Jurassic Period that featured distinctive bones along its spine. For...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Stegosaurus Skeleton Drawing

For Students 9th - 10th
This drawing shows the restoration of a Stegosaurus skeleton. Stegosaurus was large, herbivorous dinosaur from the late Jurassic Period. For more information on this interesting dinosaur check out our Stegosaurus facts page.
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Hadrosaurus.com: Finding the World's First Dinosaur Skeleton:hadrosaurus Foulkii

For Students 9th - 10th
Hadrosaurus foulkii was the very first dinosaur skeleton ever found. It was excavated in 1858 from a field in New Jersey. The story of the discovery, the excavation and the huge impact this had on the scientific world are described in...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Skeleton Shapes

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
At this one page website a variety of polyhedra are shown. The challenge is to create the skeleton for each polyhedron and identify the needed materials. You can check your solution right at the website.
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University of California

Ucmp: Aves More on Morphology

For Students 9th - 10th
A good discussion of the major adaptations of the skeleton of birds in order to adapt to flight.
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Nauticus: Bones an Exhibit Inside You: Skeletal Structure

For Students 3rd - 5th
A list of facts about the skeleton. Includes audio for hearing how to pronounce the names of bones, and links to a labeled drawing of the skeleton and to a bone facts quiz.
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University of Texas at Austin

E Fossils: Life Size Printout: Modern Adult Homo Sapiens [Pdf]

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A PDF file of a modern human adult male skeleton that can be printed and assembled into a life size one dimensional model.
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University of California

Ucmp: Building the Perfect Beast

For Students 9th - 10th
Gain an appreciation of what is involved in building a free standing mount of a forty-foot dinosaur skeleton. Text explanations are supplemented with excellent slide pictures of the actual work.
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University of Texas at Austin

E Fossils: Juvenile Modern Homo Sapiens [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
This life-sized printout will help students learn about the human skeleton and identify some of the important bones of the human body.
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Earth Life

Earth Life Web: Anatomy of Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
Beginning with the bird skeleton, this website from Earth-Life Web describes bird anatomy and morphology. Pictures and diagrams are included for each section. Feet, wings, eggs, and feathers are just some of the topics discussed.
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TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Dino Dig

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this site students play the part of a paleontologist Students must first dig up dinosaur bones using special tools and then reconstruct the dinosaur skeleton back at the lab. Along the way, the students will learn interesting facts...
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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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OpenStax

Open Stax: Pectoral Girdle

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn here about the pectoral girdle, where the the bones that attach each upper limb to the axial skeleton form. This consists of two bones, the scapula and clavicle.
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Aaas Science Now: 3 17 14: 'Little Foot' Fossil Could Be Human Ancestor

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Other

Me Dtropolis: Virtual Body

For Students 9th - 10th
Animations showing the human brain, skeleton, heart and digestive tract.
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Read Works

Read Works: Bare Bones

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the bones of a human skeleton. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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ABCya

Ab Cya: Learn the Skeletal System: Label the Bones

For Students 4th - 8th
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.
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Read Works

Read Works: Monster of the North

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the skeleton of a plesiosaur, a giant sea monster, found by scientists near the North Pole. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Anatomy, Appendicular Skeleton

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart presents the names of the bones in the human body. It includes an activity in which students label the bones after they have studied them.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Human Skeleton

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart simply explores the names of the bones in the human body.

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