In this Mystery, students discover the mechanism by which their muscles control their bones to move their bodies.
A fun and interactive children’s activity to learn the skeletal system.
The muscles in your body work together as a team to move you around.
Your living skeleton, with its moving joints, provides a framework that supports and protects your body’s organs.
Ever wonder how your hand works?
Learn about ongoing space biology research.
Learn about ongoing space biology research.
Grab your Scooby Snacks and join Sidedoor as we journey to the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama to see these unusual bones firsthand and meet the “meddling kids” trying to solve a mystery 700 years in the making.
Should we put nursing homes in space?
The amazingly kind and committed osteologist Dr. Daniel J. Wescott of Texas State University’s famed Forensic Anthropology Research Center sits down — surrounded by skulls and femurs and ribs — and chats about how bones are formed, how they break, why they might hurt when the weather changes, what CSI gets wrong, how long it takes a body to decompose, looking for isotopes in found remains, cast iron coffins, skeleton myths, body donation, and more.
This set of bits will teach you about the main organ system that gives your body its shape: bones.
We need our bones to walk, run, jump and move, but this is not all they do.