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In my school, 2nd grade and 5th grade have units on the human body. To satisfy their different maturities, I’ve developed two lists of websites to complement this inquiry. I put them on the class internet start page so when students have free time, they can visit:

2nd -3rd Grade

Place organs where they belong

1. Blood Flow
2. Body Systems
3. Build a Skeleton
4. Can you place these parts in the correct place?
5. Choose the systems you want to see.
6. Find My Body Parts
7. How the Body Works
8. Human Body Games
9. Human Body websites
10. Human Body—by a 2^nd grade class—video
11. Human Body—videos on how body parts work
12. Inside the Human Body: Grades 1-3
13. Kids’ Health-My Body
14. Matching Senses
15. Muscles Game
16. Nutrition Music and Games from Dole
17. Senses Challenge
18. Google Human Body
19. Weird stuff your body does

4th-5th Grade

1. Brain’s Secret Life
   

   Google's Ebody is a virtual tour of the human body

2. Choose a System and Learn About it
3. ESkeltons.org
4. Google Human Body
5. The heart
6. Human body—explore it
7. Human Body—Fast Facts
8. Human Body websites
9. Inside the Human Body: Grades 4-6
10. Neuroscience for Kids
11. Virtual Body
12. Virtual Knee Surgery

Do you have any others to add? I’d love to hear them.

Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and creator of two technology training books for middle school. She is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter’s journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, IMS tech expert, and a weekly contributor to Write Anything and Technology in Education. Currently, she’s working on a techno-thriller that should be ready this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.

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