The free body systems resources featured here are individual components that you can select based on your specific needs. For a more structured approach, consider exploring the online courses offered by Georgia Virtual Learning or the tutorials available on CPALMS, (both resources listed below).
At KidsHealth there are a number of health lessons, games, and worksheets for pre-school through high school, covering topics on the human body, personal health (fitness, nutrition, hygiene, etc.), and health problems. There are:
- short movies on the different systems of the body
- games, experiments and other activities
- animations
Visible Body: Free intro to body systems featuring videos and 3D models. The site also offers free biology content.
Anatomy and Physiology Course: This is a free, online course from Georgia Virtual Learning. It includes 13 modules covering: the structure and function of the human body, cells, and the individual body systems. Lessons are presented as text and diagrams, videos, and with interactive review activities. There is also a middle school course that covers cell structure and the major organs.
Human Body Online Tutorials: CPALMS, the state of Florida’s source for free educational resources, provides a series of nine online tutorials on systems of the human body.
PBS LearningMedia has a variety of interactive lessons for human body and health topics, including:
Powering Your Body with Exercise
Nutrition: What Your Body Needs
How Environment Affects Health
GetBodySmart: Organ Systems Interactive
Fit: Free health units for grades K – 5. Printables, slideshows, videos and games.
Teen Health Literacy: CK-12 Flexbook on nutrition, physical activity, drug abuse and reproduction.
AnatomyZone: Video tutorials on body systems.
Organ Systems at Work: Interactive diagrams with information and labeling exercises.
Web Adventures – Drugs: Effects of substance abuse on the body.Web Adventures – Alcohol: Effects on the body.
Skeletal System Lesson: Study of the major bones and joints; main functions; types of movement; with diagrams. Also get the
Accompanying Workbook.
Books to Check Out
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The Body Book (See-Through Science)
Cut-out windows let kids see inside different human body systems.
Paper World: Human Body
Paper die-cuts and flaps create layered, 3D visual representations of human anatomy