TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Artificial Bicep
Students learn more about how muscles work and how biomedical engineers can help keep the muscular system healthy. Following the engineering design process, they create their own biomedical device to aid in the recovery of a strained...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Measuring Our Muscles
Student teams build model hand dynamometers used to measure grip strengths of people recovering from sports injuries. They use their models to measure how much force their classmates muscles are capable of producing, and analyze the data...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Biomedical Engineering and the Human Body
Human beings are fascinating and complex living organisms-a symphony of different functional systems working in concert. Through a 10-lesson series with hands-on activities students are introduced to seven systems of the human...
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: 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...