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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Skeletal System Game

For Students 3rd - 8th
Test your knowledge of the human skeletal system with this interactive labeling exercise.
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Introductory Anatomy: Bones

For Students 9th - 10th
In addition to providing information on the function of bones in our body, this website includes tips for classifying and identifying specific bones of the skeletal system.
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University of Bristol: What Were the Dinosaurs, and How Did They Live?

For Students 9th - 10th
Answers to a series of nine questions related to dinosaurs. There are a number of links to other informative sites as well.
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Mex online.com: Day of the Dead Dia De Los Muertos

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores the cultural significance of the Day of the Dead festival in Mexico. Content focuses on what Day of the Dead is, its symbols, and its traditions.
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US Geological Survey

Usgs: Dinosaurs: Fact and Fiction

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive series of pages that answers a number of commonly asked questions about dinosaurs.
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McGraw Hill

Glencoe Biology: The Skeletal System: Self Check Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Try these five multiple-choice questions about the skeletal system. After submitting answers, students can review the material.
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Southern California Institute: Pediatric Orthopedics

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is devoted to pediatric orthopedics and to the conditions of normal and abnormal bone development. Brief explanations about the anatomy of the spine, elbow, hip, hand, foot, knee, and shoulder are also provided, with...
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Skeletal System

For Students 3rd - 8th
Self-playing slideshow, with an accompanying quiz, explains the major functions of the skeletal system: support, protection, and movement.
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Varsity Tutors

Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learn more about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work when you visit this resource. This site features links to information on his life and work.
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Read Works

Read Works: About Your Bones

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[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....
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Read Works

Read Works: The Ex Factors

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares facts about the importance of physical activity on the body. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Canadian Museum of Nature

Canadian Museum of Nature: Dinosaur Eggs

For Students 9th - 10th
The Canadian Museum of Nature looks at the rare discoveries of fossil eggs.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Skeletal System Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
Take this interactive, multiple-choice quiz over the human skeletal system, then review your score and any missed questions at the end.
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Nature Research

News @ Nature: Flores Man

For Students 9th - 10th
Site from News @ Nature provides the story of the remarkable discovery on the Island of Flores, Flores Man. See a great picture of the skull and read explanations and reflections from the leading palaeoanthropologists on the dig.
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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Zoom Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 5th
Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic,...
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TES Global

Tes: Languages and the Olympics

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] During this three week Olympics unit, primary students will pair with secondary students. Students will learn basic French and Spanish vocabulary through music and physical education activities.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: The Skeletal System

For Students 4th - 5th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses the components and functions of the skeletal system; the structure of bone, and how bones grow and develop; and the different types of joints, and how they...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.6 Skeletal System

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn the function of the bones in the human skeletal system.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Biology: Skeletal System Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the structure and function of the parts of the human skeletal system.
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Other

Institute of Human Origins: Classifying Life

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Video: 3 D View of Human Male Anatomy

For Students 9th - 10th
A video animation with music exploring the workings of the female body. This 3D views allows you to get a glimpse of muscles, organs, and bone structure of the male body. Video shows you the network of veins and arteries of the body as...
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University of Wisconsin

Amphibians: Why Study Them?

For Students 9th - 10th
A basic description of why we study amphibians. This site contains an interesting three-dimensional reconstruction of a frog skeleton.
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Drawing Dinosaurs

For Students 3rd - 8th
A tutorial on how to draw a realistic dinosaur starting from a picture of a skeleton.
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Other

New Jersey Fossils: Duckbilled Dinosaur

For Students 9th - 10th
The duckbilled dinosaur was a type of hadrosaurus and existed in New Jersey in the Late Cretaceous Period. A few fossil specimens have been found in areas of New Jersey, with the very first partial skeleton being discovered in...

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