The Human Skeletel System

These information resources include references to people, items on shelves and items in computer storage (diskettes, hard drives, and networks).

Brains

• Expert from the United States:
• Dr. Karla Weidner, professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Western Carolina University, [email protected]
• Email Conferences
• LISTSERVs (info):
• Kinesiology 360
• Newsgroups (info):
• sci.bio.misc

• Set of Books for BK-12 students:-A set of age-appropriate books and/or instructional materials for this unit plan.
• Dem Bones by Bob Barner
• The Skeletal System (Human Body Systems) by Evelyn Kelly
• The Skeletal System by Rebecca Olien
• The Skeleton Inside You by Philip Ballestrino

• Curriculum Library Resources (info): A list selected relevant curriculum library resources.
• Bones: Our Skeletal System by Seymour Simon
• The Bones Book by Stephen Cumbaa ; accompanied by plastic 25 piece skeleton
• Skeletons! Skeletons! All About Bones by Katy Hall
• "The Human Machine Kit"
• Movers and Shapers: Bones, Muscles,and Joints by Patricia Macnair
• "Interactive Functional Anatomy" CD-ROM

• Video Resources (info)
• "Bones and Joints" a Granada productions for Channel 4
• "How Muscles Work"; KVIE Sacramento

Drives

• Web sites

This is a list of useful web site addresses for this unit plan found using the web search engines from each of these headings.
• Expert database (info): (Encylopedia Britannica Online). 
• Human Body: Blending In But Staying Special
• MEDtropolis: Virtual Body
• Kid' Health: My Body

• General Catalog database (info): (e.g., Yahoo.com).
• Human Body Adventure
• The Big Story on Bones
• How the Body Works

• Web site Robot database (info): - (e.g., hotbot.com)
• Reference Library: Skeletal System
• Your Multitalented Muscles
• Your Gross and Cool Body: Muscular System
  
 
• Web sites from Child Safe search engines (info):
• The Human Body E-book
• The Innerbody

• MetaLibrary catalogs (info): web sites pre-sorted by educational topics.
• Biology and Life Sciences
• Discovery School
  
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• Online Calculators
• Jim's Tornado Calculator

• Instructional Software (info)
• Shareware (info): -
• Starry Night - "Starry Night can simulate the sky from any location on Earth (or in fact in the solar system). It is easy to use, live, fast and fluid, quickly rendering photo-realistic scenes of the night sky. This latest release continues to get rave reviews from all sources."

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