Access Excellence: The Living Skeleton: A Tour of Human Bones

Feet are neat! So, if you've already walked the path of examining animal footprints with your class, put them in the shoes of early humans! A well-designed lesson incorporates video, discussion, and hands-on learning to demonstrate how...

Young biologists piece together the puzzle of the human body with this simple anatomy activity. Presented with a picture of the human skeleton, students are challenged with the task of correctly identifying the 27 bones indicated on the...

This site from Access Excellence gives an introduction to the Human Genome Project. The page links to a graphics gallery and to discussions about related ethical issues.

Is it possible to grow a human bone outside the body? Begin by taking a look at how bones grow naturally within the human body, the elements that make bones strong and functional, methods currently used to replace bones, and finally, how...

This map from Access Excellence shows human chromosome pairs. The site includes a short description of chromosome structure, staining of chromosomes and karyotypes.

This site, which is provided for by Access Excellence, gives a detailed article outlining DNA fingerprinting, how it is used, and how it works.

This Access Excellence site provides information on the scientific achievements of Louis Pasteur, one of "the greatest benefactors of humanity."

Access Excellence offers an explanation of genes is supplemented with an illustration of the placement of genes in a chromosome.

Four different types of human bone classifications are discussed through text and pictures. Shape, development, region, and structure classifications are further divided into the variety of bones each entails.

Skeletons may not be able to speak, but they can still tell us a lot. High schoolers watch a short video about the ways biological anthropologists can use a skeleton's bone structure to determine age, gender, place of birth, and social...