Curated OER
Soccer: Dribbling and Tackling
Students explore how to dribble the ball and tackle the players in possession of the ball. A drill for practice is included.
Curated OER
The Dinosaur Body
Students investigate how body design affects balance. They make simple models of dinosaur bodies using straws and marshmallows. Before making their models, they discuss the effects of gravity and the importance of balance in body shape.
Curated OER
The effects of microgravity
Fourth graders are given a scenario in the lesson plan that presents a problem that needs to be solved. They conduct research from multiple sources in order to gather information. This is used to contribute to possible solutions proposed...
Curated OER
Desert Postcards
Students research characteristics of deserts. They present their findings in small groups to the class. Students utilize information learned about desert biomes, geography of the route of the Niger, and expeditions in their writing.
Curated OER
Bones or No Bones?
Students move to music and study bones and their purpose. When the music plays slow, gentle sounds the students have NO bones and their bodies are like Jello or an egg that has been cracked open on the floor . When the music changes...
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Axial and Appendicular Skeleton Parts Quiz
41 question quiz relates to medical terms associated with the axial and appendicular skeleton.
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons: Deinonychus Antirrhopus
Deinonychus antirrhopus was a small, carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Cretaceous Period, first discovered in the United States. A study of its skeleton revealed that it was fast-moving, which went against previously held beliefs...
Museums Victoria
Melbourne Museum: Meet the Skeletons
A database with detailed fact sheets for seventeen dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, including illustrations, a map, a timeline, physical characteristics, etc.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: Main Bones of the Skeleton
Thirty six question quiz tests the users knowledge of the main bones of the body.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Episd: Skeletal System Joints
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Recognize the different skeletal joints in the body and understand their function.
University of Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History: My Body My Senses
This teacher's guide introduces children to the human body and the five senses and covers the major body parts and what they do. Children also will use their five senses to learn about the world.
University of Arizona
University of Arizona: Cytoskeleton Tutorial
In this interactive tutorial you will discover that the cytoskeleton is both a muscle and a skeleton, and is responsible for cell movement, cytokinesis, and the organization of the organelles within the cell.
Science Daily
Science Daily: Earliest Baby Girl Ever Discovered
Article provides a good overview of the exciting find of a three-year-old girl skeleton dating from 3.3 million years ago as well as the significant scientific contributions of this find.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fourth Grade Science: Life Science: The Skeletal System
[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...
Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature: Dinosaurs: Archaeopteryx Lithographica
Is it a feathered dinosaur, or the ancestor of birds? Find out about the Archaeopteryx lithographica whose fossil remains show feathers similar to that of a bird, and whose skeleton resembles that of a dinosaur.
Curated OER
Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc.: Stan T. Rex
STAN T. Rex, a Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton that was excavated and reconstructed by the Black Hills Institute.
Curated OER
Smashing Apps: Nivea Hair Care: Illustration
The image shows a skeleton in the ground with beautiful red hair to promote Nivea Hair Care products.
