Mystery Science: Why Do Your Biceps Bulge?
Mystery Science

In this Mystery, students discover the mechanism by which their muscles control their bones to move their bodies.

ABCya! Skeletal System
ABCya!

A fun and interactive children’s activity to learn the skeletal system.

DK Find Out! Muscles
DK

The muscles in your body work together as a team to move you around.

DK Find OUt! Skeleton and Bones
Dk

Your living skeleton, with its moving joints, provides a framework that supports and protects your body’s organs.

Sidedoor: The Mystery Bones of Witch Hill (Season 3, Ep. 2)
Sidedoor (Smithsonian)

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.

Ologies: Osteology (SKELETONS/BODY FARMS)
Ologies

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.

Ask A Biologist: Bone Bits
Arizona State University, Ask A Biologist

This set of bits will teach you about the main organ system that gives your body its shape: bones.

Ask A Biologist: Busy Bones
Arizona State University, Ask A Biologist

We need our bones to walk, run, jump and move, but this is not all they do.