Interact with the Human Body!

Welcome back!  It's time again to start another school year, and I'm sure you are all running around like mad getting everything ready for a perfect start.  With all that running and preparing, you may be wondering if your brain may be about to explode, or your heart may thump out of your chest, or your adrenal glands are working non-stop!  Well, maybe the site I am sharing for today may help you find out a little more about each of these as well as the rest of the human body!  Check out BioDigital Human!

From the site itself, 

"BioDigital Human is a virtual 3D body that brings to life thousands of medically accurate anatomy objects and health conditions in an interactive Web-based platform."

The 3D display is wonderfully interactive!  You can build each system on the skeleton, adding or removing to show just what you need.  Within each system, you can add or remove parts and learn about each organ.  Clicking on an organ will zoom in and display specific information about that part.  And I feel like I should also let you know that this anatomical viewer is 100% anatomically correct...if you get my meaning....just make sure you don't put yourself in an awkward position if you allow students to use this site.

Have a wonderful school year! 

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eSkeletons - No Bones About it!

Let's face it, we all have some "skeletons in the closet", right?  Maybe one of yours is lack of cool resources about skeletal anatomy?  Let's face it, drawings in text books can be "bone dry".  Well, the resource for today is one you can use to really "bone up" on skeleton info about human and several primates.  Ok, sorry enough with the puns.

E Skeletons from The University of Texas at Austin offers more information about human and non-human primate skeletal anatomy than you can shake a femur at!  Click on one of the specific skeltons to look more closely at all the different parts.  You can get different views of each specific bone (just click on an area, choose the bone you want to see {listed under the skeleton}, and choose the different views to get an in-depth look).

The site can definitely be used at a college level with all the information available.  However, being able to just see the bones isolated from the rest of the skeletal structure would be beneficial for as low as a 5th grade class studying human anatomy.