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.

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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.

Dissect a virtual bone and learn about the busy world of bones. You can saw, cut away layers, scoop, and zoom into the different parts of a bone.

To explore the bones of the human skeleton, check out our Skeleton Viewer.

Explore the station in Minecraft then continue your learning with this set of hands-on lesson plans.