Sep. 12, 2005 - Great Sites/Videos, etc for learning about the HUMAN BODY!

Here are a bunch of recommends that I got off of my "KONOS" list that I wanted to put down in one place... I figured I might as well put them here to share!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody

http://www.medscape.com/pages/features/ald/fb/index-fb  good for a variety of ages http://kidshealth.org/index.html

http://www.lung.ca/children/grades1_3/index.html

Neuroscience for Kids: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html 

Surfing the Human Body: http://library.thinkquest.org/J001614F/

How the Body Works: uses shockwave to illustrate how certain body parts operate. For example, watch the lungs inhale and exhale and then make the body hiccup, cough or sneeze. http://kidshealth.org/misc_pages/bodyworks/bodyworks.html

Skeletal System Unit http://www.edhelper.com/

The mother load of worksheets for the nervous system

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/works.html

The mother load of worksheets for the nervous system

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/works.html

Videos:

Magic School Bus Videos

*Inside Ralphie

*Gets Eaten

*The Fantastic Voyage" and it is a CBS/FOX video. The cover says "A Fantastic and Spectacular Voyage Through the human Body...Into the Brain".

Newton's Workshop has two in particular--"Cell-a-bration" and the "Germinators" (cytology and immune system).

I'll be posting regularly about our body studies... please feel free to share ideas!!

Byn