Content Videos (Lectures and animations to supplement lessons):
- Overview of 11 major body systems
- Anatomy & Physiology overview (includes homeostasis)
- Digestive System
- Respiratory System
- Circulatory System
- Immune System 1
- Immune System 2
- Endocrine System
- Sensory System
- Muscular System
- Nervous System
- Thermoregulation
- Osmoregulation
- Feedback Loops
Interactives (Online activities for student interaction & practice with content):
- Interactive Human Anatomy (students explore the human body with hundreds of interactive anatomy pictures and descriptions of thousands of objects in the body)
- Interactive Body Systems (students click to view animated tutorials about each body system; includes topic on blood)
- Animated Lessons: The Human Body
- Digestive System (students use this drag-and-drop interactive to build a digestive system)
- Digestive System (animated tutorial on the digestive system)
- Digestive System (animated interactive on how the body breaks down food)
- Respiratory System (students examine ventilation, external and internal respiration, and gas transport)
- Respiratory System: Gas Exchange (students examine the mechanisms for gas exchange among the lungs, blood and tissues)
- Circulatory System (students examine how blood flows through the heart and lungs; a brief quiz follows the activity)
- Circulatory System (students explore this animated view of the cardiovascular system)
- Circulatory System (students identify the valves and chambers of the heart)
- Immune System: Responses (students learn about how the immune system responds to foreign invaders with the help of Mr. Immuno!)
- Immune System: Cells of the Immune System (overview of the immune system, concentrating on the roles played by B and T lymphocytes, and the antigen-presentation system)
- Immune System: Antigen Presentation (students examine the process by which antigens are identified, processed, and presented to mediators of the cellular immune system)
- Immune System: White Blood Cells (students examine the structure and function of granulocytes and agranulocytes; two exercises complete the activity.
- Endocrine System: The Stress Response (students read a brief description of the roles of the hypothalamus, emotions and adrenal secretions during the stress response).
- Sensory System: Anatomy of the Ear (student identifies the anatomical parts of the ear and learns the purpose and function of these parts; a review follows the lesson)
- Sensory System: Hearing (students examine hearing and balance; detailed drawings of the outer, middle and inner ear structures are included)
- Sensory System: Taste (students examine the structure and function of the sense of taste)
- Sensory System: Sight (students read about the parts of the eye; a short quiz completes the activity)
- Sensory System: Smell (students trace the olfactory pathway from the nasal cavity to the olfactory cortex)
- Sensory System: Skin & Integument (students examine the structure and function of skin including the production of melanin)
- Muscular System (Colorful and interactive; students examine the structure and function of muscle and connective tissue; quiz completes the activity)
- Muscular system: Superficial Skeletal Muscles (students read descriptions of the actions of superficial skeletal muscles and see their locations; a 61-question quiz completes the activity).
- Muscular system: Contraction (students examine contraction and relaxation and consider the role of calcium ions)
- Skeletal System: Axial (students examine the eight cranial bones, fourteen facial bones and the ribs)
- Skeletal System: Appendicular (students examine bones of the appendicular skeleton)
- Skeletal System: Classification of Joints
- Skeletal System: Joint Movement (in this animation, students examine the 17 types of joint movement)
- Nervous System: Nerve Signaling (animated interactive about nervous system discoveries and the process of neuron signaling)
- Nervous System: How the Brain Develops (students study the parts of the brain and test their knowledge in a drag-and-drop exercise)
- Nervous System: Nervous and Epithelial Tissue (colorful and interactive; students examine nervous and epithelial tissue composition and function; quiz completes the activity)
- Reproductive System: Sex Determination (students answer the questions in this online quiz to test their knowledge of what determines the sex of a human, a fruit fly, and a snapping turtle)
- Homeostasis Tutorial
- Homeostasis (students use this interactive to determine how homeostasis works)
- Homeostasis (students find out how homeostasis controls conditions in the body with this activity)
Games (Online games for students to apply & test their content knowledge):
- Body Systems: Match-a-Body-System (students must match labels with body systems)
- Physiology: Angry Aliens! (students face angry aliens that are invading earth! Students shoot the invaders while teaching them a thing or two about physiology! Their knowledge and shooting skills just might save the world!)
- Skeletal System: Whack-a-Bone (students test their knowledge of bone names)
- Skeletal System: Match-a-Bone (students must match labels with bone locations)
- Skeletal System: Major Bones Crossword (students deduce bones from descriptions)
- Skeletal System: Articular System Crossword (students deduce joints from descriptions)
- Muscular System: Poke-a-Muscle (students hunt for muscles with an x-ray scanner and poke the right muscles with their finger. There are 10 stages in all that will challenge most students of anatomy)
- Muscular System: Match-a-Muscle (students must match labels with muscle locations)
- Muscular System: Major Muscles Crossword (students deduce major muscles from descriptions)
- Muscular System: Muscular System Crossword (students deduce aspects of the muscular system from descriptions)
- Circulatory System: Crossword (students deduce aspects of the circulatory system from descriptions)
- Circulatory System: The Heart Crossword (students deduce anatomy of the heart from descriptions)
- Circulatory System: The Kidney (students play this vascular system game to identify the arteries, capillaries and veins that make up the renal blood supply pathway)
- Respiratory System Crossword (students deduce aspects of the respiratory system from descriptions)
- Nervous System: Match-a-Brain (students must match labels with brain regions)
- Nervous System Crossword (students deduce aspects of the nervous system from descriptions)
- Sensory System Wordsearch (students become familiar with terminology of the sensory system with this online wordsearch)
- Sensory System: The Eye Jigsaw (students construct a puzzle of the eye)
- Sensory System: The Ear Pages (students explore “The Ear Pages” and collect the snail shaped symbols of the cochlea to gain chances to answer a question correct in the quiz! Students can choose between three levels of quizzes – beginner, advanced and expert. If they manage to get all the answers correct they will appear on the “High Score of the Week” list!)
- Digestive System: Dini’s Diner (this game is set in a diner and students choose digestive system answers (ie. meals) from a menu. If they choose correct, they will get a delicious meal served to them. Click on each food item to give Dini a tip. Also includes a kitchen scene with multiple choice questions)
- A Journey Through The Digestive System (students travel in their sandwich spacecraft to travel through the digestive system collecting good elements)
- Digestive System Crossword (students deduce aspects of the digestive system from descriptions)
- Immune System Defender (students are assisted by General Macrophage in defeating a bacterial infection using a range of different immune cells)
- Conflict Immunity! (students command and control their army of white blood cells to fight off viruses and bacteria! Blast them with antibodies and destroy them before they destroy the body! Learn how the immune system works while having fun!)
- Homeostasis: Endocrine Ed! (students control Ed’s endocrine glands to regulate his blood sugar, fight or flight response, sleepiness and more! Students learn about feedback loops (negative feedback) and will need to apply this knowledge to new situations in this amusing animated experience!)
- Toxin 2 (Scientists are beginning the first human trials of a vaccine to protect society from the bacteria from Mars. Nobody knows if the vaccine will work or what side effects it might have. Students join the “Infectious Disease Unit” to conduct experiments on a sample of human volunteers. If their experiments are successful, maybe civilization can beat the toxin! Topics in the game include cells, digestion, genetics, and circulation)
- Magic Land (A boy is weary of life in a kingdom in the barren desert and dreams of learning magic. His wishes come true as he is tutored by a wise old man and a visitor from another world. This animated Flash game has a mix of science content on Cells, Digestion, Respiration and Circulation)