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The human body is more than just bones and muscles. Each human body is built up from 12 major systems that govern all bodily functions from breathing to digesting.
By exploring the human body, doctors and researchers can better determine how to treat and prevent sickness, injury, and disease.
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People To See Things To Do Teacher Resources | Bibliography
Places To GoGray's Anatomy
of the Human Body
The Bartleby.com edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings-many in color-from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.
The Bartleby.com edition of Gray's Anatomy of the Human Body features 1,247 vibrant engravings-many in color-from the classic 1918 publication, as well as a subject index with 13,000 entries ranging from the Antrum of Highmore to the Zonule of Zinn.
Human
Anatomy Online
An excellent resource for information on the human body. The web site is organized into 10 body systems and has some great animations and clear explanations.
An excellent resource for information on the human body. The web site is organized into 10 body systems and has some great animations and clear explanations.
Seeing, Hearing
& Smelling the World
A comprehensive site that covers all those questions you have had about how your senses work and what the brain has to do with it all.
A comprehensive site that covers all those questions you have had about how your senses work and what the brain has to do with it all.
Your
Gross and Cool Body
Follow Wendell the Worm to learn all about the gross and cool stuff humans' bodies create--burps, snores, gas and more.
Follow Wendell the Worm to learn all about the gross and cool stuff humans' bodies create--burps, snores, gas and more.
People To SeeAsk
Dr. Dean Edell a Question
Dr. Edell is known for translating complicated medical information into concise, easy-to-understand reports and for tackling topics that are obscure, unusual and often controversial.
Dr. Edell is known for translating complicated medical information into concise, easy-to-understand reports and for tackling topics that are obscure, unusual and often controversial.
Things To DoBodyQuest
BodyQuest is an exploration of anatomy designed for students between the ages of eleven and sixteen. It is an interactive site on the human body containing games, tours and downloads.
BodyQuest is an exploration of anatomy designed for students between the ages of eleven and sixteen. It is an interactive site on the human body containing games, tours and downloads.
Brainpop Health:
All About Your Body and How it Works
This web site about the human body offers interactive quizzes and short movies on diseases, senses, cells, and the various systems of the body.
This web site about the human body offers interactive quizzes and short movies on diseases, senses, cells, and the various systems of the body.
The Heart:
An Online Exploration
A good, easy-to-navigate web site that covers everything you ever wanted to know about the heart and the circulatory system.
A good, easy-to-navigate web site that covers everything you ever wanted to know about the heart and the circulatory system.
The
Heart and the Circulatory System
A comprehensive history of scientific discovery relating to the heart as well as a good comparison of the different circulatory systems of animals.
A comprehensive history of scientific discovery relating to the heart as well as a good comparison of the different circulatory systems of animals.
How
We See: The First Steps of Human Vision
An introduction to the eye with fun activities for the whole class, good diagrams, a glossary, and additional resources.
An introduction to the eye with fun activities for the whole class, good diagrams, a glossary, and additional resources.
Neuroscience
for Kids
A fun, activity filled site with solid information about the brain and nervous system.
A fun, activity filled site with solid information about the brain and nervous system.
The Virtual
Body
Go on a virtual tour of the human brain, skeleton, and digestive tract. You can view the brain from different angles, rebuild a pile of bones into a skeleton, see the miracle of the heart in motion, take an inside-out look at your organs, and more.
Go on a virtual tour of the human brain, skeleton, and digestive tract. You can view the brain from different angles, rebuild a pile of bones into a skeleton, see the miracle of the heart in motion, take an inside-out look at your organs, and more.
Teacher Resources Lesson Plans/Webquests
Virtual Field Trips are teacher and student-created
tours of curricular topics. (You can learn how to use this UEN Virtual
Field Trip tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
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