Category Archives: Boscawen

Inner body skeleton – interactive – pupils could identify names of bones here to fill in on a diagram. Also has muscle systems:
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

THE BONE ZONE. Diagram and quiz:
http://www.imcpl.org/kids_skel.htm

BRAINPOP SKELETON. Play the movie, do the quiz:
http://www.brainpop.com/health/skeletalsystem/

THE ESKELETON. Compare human bones with those of monkeys and apes:
http://www.eskeletons.org/

JUNIOR THINKQUEST: [child friendly site]
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5777/ske1.htm

ANIMAL SKELETONS
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/coloring/skeletons.shtml

ANIMAL SKULL COLLECTION
http://www.d91.k12.id.us/www/skyline/teachers/robertsd/skulls.htm

WILL’S SKULL COLLECTION:
http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~wjh101/hedbone/index.htm

On the Move

Weblinks

Session A

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Homework/skeletons.html

A useful overview of the functions of the skeleton on this site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/moving_growing.shtml

Skeletons help us move, see how humans and animals move on this BBC Moving & Growing Science Clip

http://www.hants.gov.uk/museum/exhibitions/bones/index.html

Take a look at this site for a useful introduction to bones and skeletons.

http://www.bonesandharry.co.uk/main/main.html

Have a bit of fun with these interactive games.

Session B

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/podsmission/

Take a look at this website – very interactive, you can even arrange bones in skeleton

http://www.ehc.com/vbody.asp

Your more able children will love this site and the guided tour of the skeleton

http://www.senteacher.org/shot/bonenames.php

Some nice activities on this link to support the less able

http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/brokenbones/l/blxray_aptibfib.htm

Ouch! Follow this link for images of broken bones

http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/firstaid_safe/sheets/broken_bones_sheet.html

Want to know what to do if you break a bone? Find out here…

Session C

http://froggy.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/dissect

Don’t like the idea of having animal bones in the classroom? Then take a look at this virtual frog dissection

http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/skeletons/index.htm

More animal skeletons and skulls on this one

http://www.animalskeletons.net/animal_skeletons.html

You can buy animal skeletons here, but also lots of good pictures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals/mammals/shape.shtml

An excellent interactive resource from this trusted source

http://littlebitsmultimedia.com/littlebits/html/FunnyBones2.htm

This free download will help children see that there are similarities between human and animal skeletons

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/games/skeleton_jigsaw/

Take a look at some pre Historic animal skeletons

http://www.eskeletons.org/

Take a look at these fantastic colour images of animal skeletons

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/reproducibles/skeletons.htm

A nice sheet comparing the skeletons of animals and humans

http://www.uhrad.com/kids/Animals1.htm

Take a look at these animal skeletons

http://www.uhrad.com/kids/insects.htm

Take a look at these x-rays of insects

Session D

http://insideout.rigb.org/insideout/anatomy/casing_the_joint/index.html

Take a closer look at joints on this site

http://www.sambal.co.uk/elbow.html

http://www.purchon.com/biology/flash/elbow.swf

Take a look at some animations of elbow joints

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/joints/gliding_joint.shtml

Follow this link to take a look at some models of joints, some interactive joints on this link suitable for more able children

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml?skeleton

Another interactive site that will provide a real challenge for your most able

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/muscles_noSW.html

Follow this link to discover how muscles and joints help us move

Session E

http://www.caerphilly.org.uk/projects/ict/GPP/Pupils/Science/muscles.htm

Take the muscle quiz at this site. How did you do?

Session F

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=164373

Background information for the teacher on how the body grows in proportion

http://www.halls.md/on/boys-height-w.htm

Height and weight charts for children on this link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/gallery/vitruvian.shtml

Background information from the BBC about Vitruvius

http://www.counton.org/pi/gallery2/picture2.html

More background information

http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/body/proportions.html

http://drawinglab.evansville.edu/body.html

Proportions of body for drawing figures