Biology – The Systems
If you are interested in using any of these sites in order to develop an
online activity for your students (webquest, scavenger hunt, hotlist,
scrapbook, etc.), please feel free to visit me for assistance! -Vitoria
Guarino
A Look Inside the Human Body – Covers each of the major systems w/ great
graphics and clear prose
http://users.tpg.com.au/users/amcgann/body/index.html
The Human Body at BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/standard/nerves.shtml
Inside your bones…
http://depts.washington.edu/bonebio/bonAbout/structure.html
Images of all of the bones…
http://www.bio.psu.edu/faculty/strauss/anatomy/skel/skeletal.htm
Inner Body has information on each of the major systems
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
Brain Explorer
http://www.brainexplorer.org/index.html
BrainPop has a fun/engaging site that offers basic info about each system
http://www.brainpop.com/health/
Foss Human Body Game (put the skeleton together by dragging bones with the
mouse) – Loads of fun for the entire family!
http://sv.berkeley.edu/showcase/pages/bones.html
Body Basics Library at KidsHealth for Teens
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/
http://www.kidshealth.org/misc_pages/bodyworks/bodyworks.html
Neuroscience Coloring Book
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/colorbook.html
Learning is Fun (w/animations, etc)
http://www.learning-is-fun.co.uk/kidney1.html
Nicely done internet activity on the skeleton (includes activities and resources)
http://teach.fhu.edu/technology/EDU506/WebQuests/BreaknBones/BreaknBones
2.html
Choose a body system at “Yucky Discovery” and you will learn much more than
you may have wanted to know about each of the systems.
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000126.html
Medtropolis allows students to take a virtual tour of each system (narrations and
zoom feature included)
http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp
Human biology crossword puzzles and games at Junior Science
http://qldscienceteachers.tripod.com/worksheets/junior/biology/
Children’s Heart Institute – The Heart as a House
http://www.childrenheartinstitute.org/educate/heartwrk/hearthse.htm
Gray’s Anatomy at Bartleby
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
The brain and its functions at the Brain Connection Library
http://www.brainconnection.com/library/?main=explorehome/animations
Anatomy Dictionary
http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/anatomy.htm
A Human Biology Thinkquest
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/lib/site_sum_outside.html?tname=10348&url=
10348/
Big Chalk always has something to offer…
http://www.bigchalk.com/cgibin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/wa/BCPageDA/sec~TH~22486~~
Interactive Biology quizzes
http://www.syvum.com/squizzes/biology/
High School Regents Focus
High School Hub – Biology
http://highschoolhub.org/hub/biology.cfm
NYS Regents Exams (archive)
http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/edocs/education/exams/biology.htm
Regents Prep questions/archive
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/biology/biology.cfm
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/core/questions/topics.cfm?Course=BIOL