Human Body Resources

Our new unit of inquiry is about the human body. Here are some links to useful websites.

BBC Interactive activities on the human body
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/

Yucky Gross and Cool Body!
http://yucky.discovery.com/body/

The Skeletal System Interactive Skeleton
http://www.innerbody.com/image/skelfov.html

Your Bones: Great information about your bones
http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/bones.html

Bones of the Body Game
http://www.kidport.com/Grade6/Science/BodyBones.htm

Skeleton Shakedown, put a body back together! http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/skel/skel.html

Label the bones in the body activity http://www.klbschool.org.uk/interactive/science/skeleton.htm

The Muscular System Thanks to Jackie Miers on www.teachers.ash.org.au who compiled this list
Movie about muscles
http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?lic=1&article_set=59302&cat_id=20607

The Body : Muscles
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/bodymuscles.htm

Just for kids - Muscular system http://www.imcpl.org/kids/guides/health/muscularsystem.html

Your gross and cool body: muscular system http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000123.html

Thinkquest - The muscular system
http://library.thinkquest.org/5777/mus2.htm

The muscular System - Human Anatomy Online http://www.innerbody.com/image/musfov.html

Your multi-talented muscles
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/muscles_noSW.html

Muscles of the human body - an animation http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/HumanBody/BodyMuscles.htm

Muscles. A learning object in two parts - an animation and a drag-and-drop exercise. http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Courses/Liquid_Animation/Body_Parts/Muscles/index.html

The Digestive System Thanks to Jackie Miers on www.teachers.ash.org.au who compiled this list
My Body : Digesting food
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/bodydigest.htm

The digestive system - an animation with information http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/interactive_fs.asp?swfpath=science/bodyandmedicine/digestive.swf

The digestive system - an animation with information http://www.ahealthyme.com/Imagebank/digestive.swf

A look inside the human body : the digestive system http://www1.bellevuepublicschools.org/curriculum/k6web/fifthgrade/bodysys/digestivesystem.html

The real deal on the digestive system
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/digest_noSW.html

The digestive journey : a tour through the digestive system http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13125

Just for kids - Digestive system http://www.imcpl.org/kids/guides/health/digestivesystem.html

Your gross and cool body: digestive system http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000126.html

Musclesculpt - The digestive system
http://www.musclesculpt.com/Digestive.html

HowStuffWorks : How your kidneys works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/kidney.htm

Thinkquest - The digestive system
http://library.thinkquest.org/5777/dig1.htm

The digestive system - Human Anatomy Online
http://www.innerbody.com/image/digeov.html

Your digestive system and how it works. http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/index.htm

Digestion animation
http://kitses.com/animation/digestion.html

Explore your digestive system - Take a journey through the digestive system and find out how all the parts work and why we couldn't live without them. http://www.open2.net/everwonderedfood/interactives/digest.html

The digestive system. A learning object in two parts - an animation and a drag-and-drop exercise.

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Courses/Liquid_Animation/Body_Parts/

The digestive system quiz. Test your knowledge and see if you can answer the 10 questions correctly.
http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/_bfs_DSquizsource.html

The digestive system quiz. See if you can get the answers in both sections correct. http://hes.ucfsd.org/gclaypo/digestivequiz.html

Digestive system builder game. Created by Walter Mack http://science.waltermack.com/flashTeacherTools/biology/digestiveSystemBuilder2a.swf



The Immune System
Kids' Health Website:

http://www.cyh.sa.gov.au/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=152&id=2402

Another Kid Health website about the immune system

http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/immune.html

Learn to Type Faster

A fun colourful website with animation and games introducing touch typing to children aged 7 to 11.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/