Kid's
health overall ratings |
| A good place to start for information
about your health, illness and what goes on inside your body. There is also
a good memory game, but there's no explanation of how to play! |
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| Brainpop
health overall ratings |
| Brainpop has a whole series of cartoon
movies about different aspects of health: your body, fitness, growth, nutrition
and many other subjects. You need to choose what you watch carefully, though:
you can only watch five movies for free each day. |
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| Kids
World nutrition overall ratings |
| The most useful part of this site is
the food pyramid. This is a simple guide to healthy eating, along with a
picture of a food pyramid, which shows what foods to eat a lot of, and what
foods to eat less of. |
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Nutrition
café overall ratings |
| There is no straightforward information
on this site, but you can learn a lot by doing the quizzes and games. At
the Have-a-Bite Café you can choose a meal and see how much of your daily
food needs it gives you. There is also a detective game, and a quiz where
the answer is the question! |
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| Human
evolution: a guided tour overall ratings |
| This illustrated timeline is an excellent
guide to the stages in human evolution, although the language is at times
rather difficult. |
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| Neanderthals
and modern humans overall ratings |
| About 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, scientists
think that Neanderthals and modern humans lived side by side in Europe.
This site tells you more about the Neanderthals and the places they lived.
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| The
inner body overall ratings |
| An excellent point-and-click guide to
the workings of the human body. Click on one of the 10 images to get an
overall view of a particular body system (skeleton, muscles, nerves, etc.).
Each system has many further click points where you can find more information
and more detailed images. There are also a few animations. |
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| Gray's
Anatomy online overall ratings |
| This is the ultimate reference book for
human anatomy. For most purposes it is far more detailed and complex than
you are likely to need, but it is worth looking at the superb, detailed
illustrations (nearly 1250 of them). |
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| How
the body works overall ratings |
| This is a series of short animations
on a selection of body systems. The eye, ear and muscle animations are useful,
but the others give very little information. |
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| Puget
Sound Blood Center overall ratings |
| This site is excellent for basic information
about blood and blood transfusion, with good pictures of red and white cells
and platelets. It's only a pity that the pictures aren't a bit bigger. |
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| Brainpop
blood overall ratings |
| Brainpop has cartoon movies on lots of
topics: this one is about blood. Find out about the different blood cells
and what they do. Also, check out the amazing blood facts at the bottom
of the screen. |
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| ThinkQuest
amazing brain overall ratings |
| Amazing brain has information about your
brain and how it works. There are also images of the brain taken using X-rays,
magnets and several other methods. There is a quiz page, but the questions
are not very well written. |
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| Microbe
zoo overall ratings |
| Learn about bacteria and other microbes
in your body and in your food, among other areas. |
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| Microbes
overall ratings |
| An interesting website based on a museum
exhibition. Learn some microbe basics and take a virtual tour of the museum
exhibition. The Meet a Microbe section has good pictures of disease-making
microbes, and you can try the microbe quiz. |
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| Welcome
to the respiratory system overall
ratings |
| A clear and straightforward tour of the
human respiratory system - along with some interesting snippets about lizards! |
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| Basic
genetics overall ratings |
| What is inheritance? What is DNA? What's
a gene? You can find out on this site. You can also try building a DNA molecule,
and extracting DNA from living tissue. |
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| DNA
from the beginning overall ratings |
| This kaleidoscopic collection of animations,
sound clips, video clips and text looks at all aspects of genetics - from
Mendel's pioneering genetics experiments to working out the human genome.
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| Journey
into DNA overall ratings |
| A journey that starts with the whole
body then moves in closer and closer, until we get to the individual atoms
that make our genetic material, DNA. Don't miss the rhyming text that goes
with the pictures! |
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| Designer
genes overall ratings |
| This site is quite complicated, and goes
into a lot of detail about genetics. But there is a lot of useful information,
which is presented clearly and simply. |
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| Brainpop
immune system overall ratings |
| A Brainpop animated movie explaining
some of the basics of the immune system. |
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| Come
to your senses overall ratings |
| A well-written site with lots of information
about your senses, and some interesting activities. The main thing missing
is good illustrations. |
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| Medicine
through time overall ratings |
| On this BBC site you can find out about
all kinds of medicine, from the beliefs of the earliest times to the latest
medical discoveries. There's also information about alternative medicines
such as acupuncture and homeopathy. |
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