Neat Images for Human Body Science
This page offers a compendium of video clips, animations,
photographs, examples of scientific illustration, or other
images that could complement your classroom explorations.
Escher Image Gallery
Reproduced on this site are some of M.C. Escher's most
famous artworks. Escher was well-known for creating dizzying
and dazzling works of spatial illusions, impossible
buildings, repeating geometric patterns (tessellations). If
you're studying the senses or vision, you might want to
share these amazing pictures with your class.
How to See 3D "Magic Eye" Art
This site included in the Optometrists Network
reveals the secrets of using your eyes to unlock the hidden
pictures in "Magic Eye" art, while giving thoroughly
accessible and scientific explanations. Don't miss the
3D art gallery to test out what you've learned.
The Virtual Body
This
dramatic site requires a Java-enabled browsers, and but it's
well worth a look if your computer can support it. Virtual
tours of the brain, heart, skeleton, and digestive tract
will be particularly relevant for you and your students.
Well-labeled diagrams and impressive animations (watch a
heart beat and guide blood flow) should help to provide a
fuller understanding. The text is written at an adult level,
but you may want to share some images with your
students.
A Guided Tour of the Visible Human
Unless you've been to or are planning to
go to medical school, these images of the human body are
unlike any other resources you're likely to have come in
contact with. The Visible Human Project has generated over
18,000 digitized cross-sectional images of the actual body.
The animations and images in this tour use a few of these
images to demonstrate planes of section and other
introductory concepts in anatomy. While the text is on the
advanced side, showing your students some of these images
could really open some interesting lines of questioning.
BrainPOP: Health
Requiring both the Flash plug-in and sound, this site might
be too intensive for some users. But if your computer and
connection can manage it, this site is excellent. The Health
section of BrainPOP offers dozens of kid-oriented animated
movies about a huge spectrum of health topics like broken
bones, cells, digestion, diabetes, drug abuse, genetics, and
puberty, just to name a few. All of the movies were created
directly in response to questions that kids asked.
Lung Pictures
Looking
to emphasize the bodily health risks from smoking? Take a
tour through the gallery of healthy lungs vs. smokers' lungs
showcased on this site. Scroll to the bottom of the page to
begin the tour. Unfortunately, there isn't much in the way
of text explanation, but the images speak for
themselves.
Radiographic Anatomy of the Skeleton
This site was designed for radiologists concerned with
identifying and
learning names of specific bones, but the unlabeled x-ray
images are
spectacular and useful to your students as well. As they
explore bones and
the different motions possible with different types of
joints in their own
bodies, students can use these internal views of shoulder,
elbow, forearm,
wrist, hand, pelvis, knee, ankle, foot, and spine to help
explain what they
are finding.
Virtual Hospital: Normal Radiologic Anatomy
Again, a professional site for radiologists with much more
medical
information than you'll ever need, but the images of bones
and organs
offered are very clear. See how doctors look at what is
going on inside
the body without invasive surgery. Target an area of the
body and view
real X-rays (showing only bones), MRIs (images of bones and
organs),
CAT scans or CT (cross-sectional views of bones and organs),
and ultrasound images.
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