Free teacher web sites for Science topic ‘Life - Body parts and systems’

Place in the organs in the sequence you are told to. Can be tricky for some upper KS2. Let's see how they do.

External link: Add in the organs

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A great BBC labelling activity suitable for KS2.

External link: Advanced label of insects, humans and animals

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A BBC - put the bones in the right place activity. Great.

External link: Animal skeletons

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Get past the voice overs - ideally by disconnecting the speakers, and the animations may be useful. Features skins, respiratory, skeleton, muscular, immune, nervous, digestive, urinary and respiratory systems.

External link: Animations of the body and body systems and organs

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This Toftwood activity covers - muscles, foods journey through the body, the effect of exercise on the heart and a simple labelling activity. The later being suitable for infants. The other simulations are ideal for KS2.

External link: Body simulations

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Build a skeleton. There's enough here for all. Upper infants will enjoy putting the skeleton back together as a jigsaw. KS2 pupils will appreciate the names of the bones as you click on them.
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External link: Build a skeleton

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Lots of activities and explanations - if they are ready for it. Good Skeleton Building activity - click 'Build a Skeleton' at the top of the page.

External link: Endoskeletons and exoskeletons plus skeleton builder

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A simple quiz with multiple choice questions - match up things like brain > controls functions of body and for memory. Great for Ks2.

External link: Functions of body parts

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Includes images of; Ear, Eye, Lungs, Head, Muscles, Skeleton.

External link: Images body parts

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As it says, an introduction for confident readers and lovely images of animals, plants, unusual things too. Lovely.

External link: Introduction to x rays

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BBC activity - Drag labels to the parts. Ideal for infants.

External link: Label body parts of animals and humans

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We love this simple body part labelling activity from Crick. Ideal for Ks1.

External link: Label body parts on photographs

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We like this simple image with a few labels to organise. Great for ks2.

External link: Lungs drag and drop the labels

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These highly magnified images will make for an interesting start to any minibeasts lesson in KS2.

External link: Minibeast body parts

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A great moving animation of the heart. You need to navigate through the resource a bit first so familiarise yourself with this before the lesson. Pretty useful for capable individual users too.

External link: Moving heart animation

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Listen to a heart beating in lots of formats.

External link: Music file of heart beat

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Click on interactive guides and you'll find lots out about the bodies of your favourite pets and what the parts do.
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External link: Pets body parts

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All the major organs are included. There are a few more than are necessary for Ks2 knowledge, but that won't stop children from using the ones they do need to learn and talking about the others.

External link: Simple drag and drop of body parts (internal)

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A great BBC activity for lower KS2 or infants. Simple 'put the bones in the right place' theme going on here. Not too technical though. Be careful to place them very accurately or we found it didn't always work.

External link: Simple skeleton bone place

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A BBC activity encouraging you to make healthy choices to keep this man fit and well.

External link: Simulation of a life

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Great if you need an image of a skeleton, drag the labels to the parts, a few more than is required of Ks2, but it'll be fun researching to find out about the new ones!

External link: Skeleton drag and drop the labels

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This is one of our all time favourites because it gives you lovely clear skeleton pictures of humans and animals. We use this to teach about teeth and diets too. Great because it's simple. From Hitchams school.

External link: Skeleton pictures

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Why waste time contacting the dentist or Dr for x rays. You know you thought of it! Just show them these - and use the time you saved to rest your weary skeleton!

External link: Skeleton x-rays

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See an x ray of a human (animated) also the skeletons of a bird, dog and human are presented. Ideal for both Ks1 and 2. Requires the Flash plug-in to work.

External link: Skeletons

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This site is dedicated to cells. The animation of a cell size is truly fantastic.

External link: The size of a cell

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This is a super resource in both English and Spanish! Features images of the brain, skeleton, digestive system and animated heart. Goes in to more detail then required for Ks2. But the images and animations are top notch.

External link: Virtual Body

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You'll be able to hear the heart beat, if you can find it. Move the stethoscope around the chest and turn those speakers right up! Click on the heart and lungs tab at the top of the page to see working models of the heart and lungs. There's also a video of a heart bypass operation which may put some off their school dinners.

External link: Virtual vital organs

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