The Skeletal System - Diseases, Injuries, and Bone Health

The Skeletal System - Diseases, Injuries, and Bone Health

Topic #1 - Taking Care of Bone/ Osteoporosis 

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Link to Osteoporosis

Questions to answer: What is it? (cause, effect, treatment)

Topic #2 - Fractures, Dislocations and Sprains

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Link to Site - Health24

Questions to answer: Kinds, effect on body and when do they happen?

Topic #3 - Identifying Injuries- X-ray

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Link to Site- X-rays

Questions to answer: Be sure to answer the advantages and disadvantages, cost, and when is it used?

Topic #4 - Identifying Injuries- MRI

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Link to Site- MRI

Questions to answer: Be sure to answer the advantages and disadvantages, cost, and when is it used?

Topic #5 - Joint Replacement Surgery

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Link to Joint Replacement

Questions to answer: What is it? Candidates for and advantages/disadvantages.

Topic #6 - Arthroscopic Surgery

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Link to Arthroscopy

Questions to answer: What is it? Candidates for and advantages/disadvantages.

Introduction to the Skeletal and Muscular System

Skeletal Systems Structure and Function:

Structure:
bones, ligaments, cartilage, tendons, joints (location not structure)

Function:
1. protection
2. support/ shape
3. create blood cells
4. storage
5. movement


Interactive Sites:
PHSchool.com
Webcode- CEP - 4012

Learn the Bones - ABCya

BBC - Joints Interactive

Inner Body - Joints and Skeleton of leg and foot

Wisc online- Skeleton

Interactive Heart Site for National Geographic and American Heart Association

Heart, Heart Information, Cardiovascular Facts, News, Photos -- National Geographic

American Heart Association Link
Choose Blood Flow and Coronary Arteries from the drop down.

On the provided Heart Diagram please label the:

1. 4 chambers of the heart

2. pulmonary vein and artery

3. 4 heart valves

4. sinoatrial nodes (S-A Node) and atrial-ventricular node (A-V Node)

5. septum

6. aorta

7. aortic arch

If done color code oxygen rich blood red and oxygen poor blood blue.

History of Blood, Karl Landsteiner and Blood Typing

Here is the link the reading on Karl Landsteiner and Blood Typing.

Click here to access.

Helpful links on Blood Typing and Nobel Prize Site:

Nobel Prize Site

Get Body Smart Link

Pictures from today's blood simulation:

Meiosis vs. Mitosis Webquest

Click here and download Mitosis vs. Meiosis Webquest.

Some Helpful links to Taxonomy

Taxonomy Check-in to go with the following links.  
Click here to access.

Greek and Latin Roots- Click here to access

Tim and Moby Video on Life- Click here to watch

Fun PBS Interactive on different crocodiles based on different environments - Click here to interact. 

Macro to Micro - New Unit

Today we started our New Unit- Macro to Micro.

The learning goals were:
1. Identify and list physical characteristics of organisms.
2. Understand how organisms earn there scientific name.

Students constructed a working definition of physical characteristics/traits.

They also learned new vocabulary:

• taxonomy
• nomenclature
• binomial nomenclature

Here is the link to today's reading and questions document.  Click here to access

Make a copy of the Google document and complete the reading on "What is an organism?" p. 8-11.  Then answer the questions provided on the sheet.