Autumn Sky: Body Links

ploring Creation with Human Anatomy and Physiology

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Blank Notebook Pages: If your student needs more structure to complete the notebooking assignments, these are template pages for the student notebook.
Field Trip Sheet: If you would like print the field trip sheet rather than copy it, click on this link.
What it takes to be a Doctor: An overview of what it takes to be a doctor.
How becoming a doctor works: A more detailed discussion of how to become a doctor.
What it takes to be a Nurse: A short overview of what it takes to be a nurse.
How to become a Nurse: A more detailed discussion of the things you must do to become a nurse.
Become a vet: Even though veterinarians work on animals and not people, the training is very similar. In fact, you will do much of what is covered in the "How becoming a doctor works" link above. This is an interview with a veterinarian that discusses what it's like to be a vet.

Lesson 1

Egyptian Medicine: History of acient medicine and remedies used
How mummies work: This link discusses how mummies were made.
Modern medicine in the Bible: This link discusses a lot of the medical information in the Old Testament, which was WAY ahead of its time.
Hippocrates educational material: This link has a brief discussion of Hippocrates along with puzzles, a painting, and games related to him and his work.
The Hippocratic Oath: This is one translation of the famous Hippocratic oath.
Hippocrates: This link has a very detailed discussion of Hippocrates.
Aristotle educational material: This link has a brief discussion of Aristotle along with puzzles, painting, and games related to him and his work.
Aristotle: This link has a very detailed discussion of Aristotle and his accomplishments.
Galen 1: This link has a good discussion of Galen and his accomplishments.
Galen 2: This link has a very detailed discussion of Galen and his accomplishments.
Anton van Leeuwenhoek: This link has a discussion of Anton (sometimes called Antony) van Leeuwenhoek, his faith, and his accomplishments.
Microscopes in history: This link has a discussion of the history of microscopes with some pictures of old microscopes.
Robert Hooke: This link has a very detailed discussion of Robert Hooke and some pictures of his microscope and its related materials.
Andreas Vesalius: This link has a biography of Vesalius and his preface to his book
Images from Andreas Vesalius' book on anatomy: This link has some more images of pages from Vesalius' most famous book.
The Cell for Kids: This site has a discussion of each major part of the cell as well as activities related to cells.
Cell Membrane audio: This is the MP3 audio of the section "Cell Membrane" in the textbook.
Cells—“design modules” by the trillions: This site has a good discussion of how cells show that they were created by God.
Journey inside the cell: This site has a great animation about what goes on inside a cell.
The cell's design: how biochemistry reveals the work of a creator: This site has a video of a talk given by a scientist who says that cells show us they were created.
Signature in the cell: This site has another video of a talk given by a scientist who says that cells show us they were created.
How big is a cell: There are lots of different sizes in God's creation. This site has an animation that allows you to see the relative size of things. The lymphocyte, red blood cell, and Baker's yeast are the kinds of cells you studied. The E. coli and staphylococcus are bacteria, which are still cells, but they are different from the ones that are in people.
How DNA changed an atheist's mind: This site has information related to one of the world's most famous FORMER atheists, Antony Flew. He now says that DNA is just too well designed to be the product of chance. Thus, it was created.
DNA double helix video: This site has a great video about a man who tried to figure out how life arose without a creator and ended up believing in God. It has good visuals of DNA and protein synthesis.
DNA workshop: This site has a great walkthrough of how DNA makes proteins. Click on "DNA Workshop Activity" and then choose "Protein Synthesis" at the top right. Follow the instructions to see exactly how DNA tells the cell to make proteins.

Lesson 2

Bones: God's living girders: This site has a lot of great information about how bones are designed. There are some excellent illustrations as well.
How bones work: This site has a great discussion of how bones work.
The Skeletal System: This is a cute animation about the skeletal system.
Human skeletal system using pictures: This site has pictures of a real full skeleton as well as individual parts of the skeleton. If you want to see the names of the individual bones, just click on "correct answers" once you have chosen a category.
Spongy and compact bone: This site has good pictures that show the difference between spongy and compact bone.
Spongy and compact bone at the microscopic level: This site has good microscopic pictures of compact and spongy bone. Click on either the word compact bone or spongy bone listed in the middle column under "cartilage and bone".
Bone Growth Animation: This site has a very detailed discussion of bone growth. The "Overview" part is relevant to what is in the book, but the other parts are interesting, too.
Bone repair animation: This site has a good animation for bone repair, and it shows X-rays of a bone in three stages of a fracture.
A broken wrist and its treatment: This site has a good animation that includes general information about bones, how a wrist can get broken, and what is done for treatment.
Label the bones: This site has a "drag and drop" exercise to see if you can identify some bones in a human skeleton.
Video about the bones of the skull: This video goes into a lot more depth than the book, and it "opens up" the skull so you can see the bones inside.
Interactive map of the vertebral column: You can point to a group of vertebrae and they will light up on the figure
The amazing regenerating rib: A good discussion of human ribs.
Animation of joint movement: This video animates the motion of four of the joints mentioned in the book. It calls sliding joints "plane joints." It doesn't show pivot joints or ellipsoidal joints, because there are not that many of them in the human body.

Lesson 3

How muscles work: This is a great overview of many of the things discussed in the course. There is a good video about how much science can help to grow muscles and a good animation of the three different kinds of muscle tissue.
The Muscle System: This is a cute animation about the muscule system.
Eye movements: This is a very detailed discussion of how we control the movement of our eyes.
Arm movement animation: This shows you how the biceps and triceps works to flex and extend your forearm. Click on a muscle to make it contract.
Tendons of the foot: Your body has a LOT of tendons. To give you an idea, look at how many are in just your feet.
Muscle tissue: There are several good microscope images of smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscle here.
Muscle fiber contraction: In this really cool video, a scientist separates muscle cells until he gets to a single fiber. He then looks at it under the microscope and adds a form of chemical energy (called "ATP") to make it contract.
Muscles of the body: This site uses a model to show you many of the body's muscles. Click on a region, and then move your mouse over the picture of the model. When you left-click, it will show you the name of the muscle.
Muscles of the body diagram: If you want to know the names of some of the muscles in your body, this is a good labeled diagram.

Lesson 4

Video about digestion: This website has a short summary of the digestive system and also offers pictures that you can use for presentations, quiz games, and several animations and videos on the digestive system
Another video about digestion: An animation of the digestive system
Yet another video about digestion: This is another view of the digestive process, but it tries to be more of a video than an animation. I included it here because the views it gives of the stomach and the intestinal vili are very good.
From solar energy to human energy: This is a good discussion of the design we see in nature as it relates to our digestive system.
Your teeth: This site has more information about your teeth. Note that it calls the cuspid teeth "canines," which some sources do.
Spit power: A discussion of saliva and what it does.
Oral cavity and oesophagus: This site goes into a lot of depth about the tongue, salivary glands, and esophagus (they add an "o" in front because they are Australian). The main thing to do is look at all the great microscopic photos.
Taste buds: A good discussion of taste buds with drawings.
Microscopic images of taste buds: This picture shows taste buds in the papillae of a tongue.
Closeup of taste buds: This picture closes in on the taste buds themselves.
Microscopic view of intestinal villi: This picture shows the villi in the small intestine.
The liver: the largest gland in the body: A great discussion about the liver.
The appendix: Darwin was wrong: A great discussion about how the function of the human appendix is yet another blow to evolution.
The Urinary System: A cute animation about the urinary system.
Your kidneys: A good discussion of the kidneys and what they do.
Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park: This link might give you some ideas for your theme park project.
Sea World Orlando: This link might give you some ideas for your theme park project.
University Studios Theme Park: This link might give you some ideas for your theme park project.

Lesson 5

All about atoms: This site discusses atoms. Click on "continue," and then on "fun facts" to go through all the information.
Molecule song: A fun song about molecules.
What are molecules?: A discussion about molecules with some models of specific molecules.
The wonders of water: A great article about water and its properties.
Learning about carbohydrates: A good article about carbohydrates.
Carbohydrates: A more in-depth article about carbohydrates.
Learning about proteins: A good discussion about proteins.
Proteins: A more in-depth discussion about proteins.
Learning about fats: A good discussion about fats.
Dietary Fats: Fats and nutrition
Vitamins: A good discussion about vitamins.
Video about vitamins: This is a silly video, but it does go through the major vitamins.
Dr. James Lind: This is a biography about the man who discovered the best treatment for scurvy.
Healthy Eating: This is a good article about how to eat healthy.
The USDA's food pyramid: My Plate replaces the old food pyramid. For the project, replace the pyramid with the plate.
Blank Menu: This is a menu you can fill in for this lesson's project.

Lesson 6

The breath of life: This is a good discussion about the design of the respiratory system.
Respiratory system animation: This is a cute animation about the respiratory system.
Breathe Emma, Breathe!!: Interactive animation teaching how the respiratory system works
Your nose: This is a good article about the nose.
Nasal cilia: This is a discussion of nasal cilia, with a microsopic image of them. Click on the image to make it larger. The oblong shape near the top is pollen that has been trapped by the cilia.
Three-dimensional model of the bronchi and bronchioles: This is a picture of a model that tries to accurately portray the network of tubes in the lungs.
Labeled microscopic images of lung structures: There are several good microscopic images here. The "Alveolar Duct by SEM" image is especially good, showing what a duct leading to an aleolous looks like.
Alveoli at the microscopic level: This is an excellent microscopic image of an aveolus. The caption to the left describes the drawing. The capillary mentioned is in the upper-left corner. It has a pink circle in it, which is a red blood cell.
Breathing animation: This animation specifically addresses how we breathe.
What happens in the alveoli: This animation shows you what happens in the alveoli.
Understanding asthma: This animation demonstrates what happens in an asthma attack.
Smoking animation: This animation tries to show what happens to your lungs when you smoke. The animation is good at showing how the alveoli expand and contract as we breathe.
Weather information: Put your zip code in the box at the top, and this website will give you the weather for your area, including the humidity. Also, if you scroll down to "History and Almanac," you can see things like the humidity levels on different days in the past.

Lesson 7

Blood: the liquid of life: This is a good discussion about how the Bible knew what blood was for long before scientists did.
The unevolvable circulatory system: This is a very detailed discussion of both the circulatory and respiratory system and how they defy evolution.
Arteries and veins video: This video shows some differences between arteries and veins.
Blood circulation video: This video shows how blood cells travel through the body.
Types of blood vessels video: This video discusses arteries, capillaries, and veins.
Capillary video: This video shows what happens in capillaries.
Blood components video: This video discusses the components of blood and what they do. The clotting part of the animation is particularly good.
Blood clotting: This is a good discussion about the design of the blood clotting system.
Wound Care: Page 128 in the textbook as updated with the Fourth Printing.
Blood: This website discusses blood and some of the disorders related to it.
The Components of Blood: This site provides a description of the components that make up the blood.
Sickle cells and healthy cells: This picture shows healthy red blood cells (red) and sickle cells (green). The caption tells you what happens as a result of sickle cells.
Blood Types: This site gives a lot of information about blood types.
ABO blood and human origins: This article tells us how the different blood types in people arose.
Blood test kit: This is a blood test kit you can use to determine your blood type.
Another blood test kit: This is another source for the blood test kit you can use to determine your blood type.

Lesson 8

The heart: constantly beating death: This is a great discussion of the design of the human heart.
Your heart and circulatory system: This is a good discussion of the heart and circulatory system.
Heart anatomy: This site tells you about the heart and has a nice illustration that allows you to hover over a part of the heart with your mouse to learn more about it.
Sheep heart dissection: This is a narrated series of pictures of about a sheep heart dissection. It actually is preparing students to do one, but it has some great pictures to see what the inside of a real heart looks like.
What is a heart attack?: This is a good discussion of heart attacks.
A video demonstration of CPR: This is a video showing how CPR is done. NOTE: IT IS VERY DANGEROUS TO DO THIS TO SOMEONE WHO IS NOT HAVING HEART AND BREATHING PROBLEMS!!!!!!!
Learn CPR: This site tells you all about CPR. It has video demonstrations, informations, and facts.
A video demonstration of the Heimlich maneuver: This is a video showing how the Heimlich maneuver is done. NOTE: IT IS VERY DANGEROUS TO DO THIS TO SOMEONE WHO IS NOT CHOKING!!!!!!!
The heart and circulatory system animation: This is a cute animation of how the heart pumps blood.
The heart and circulatory system animation 2: This is a more serious animation of how the heart pumps blood.
Hear heartbeats: Listen to different sounds of heartbeats and heart murmurs.
Blood Pressure: This is a good article about blood pressure and problems caused when it is not normal.
Heart outline: This is the heart outline you can print out to color in.
Vascular Vehicles audio: This is the MP3 audio of the first part of the section "Vascular Vehicles" in the textbook.

Lesson 9

Nervous sytem animation: This is a animation about the nervous system.
Video about the nervous system: This is a more serious video about the nervous system.
Thought and action video: This video discusses what happens in your nervous system to get you to touch and click a mouse.
Mind by Design: This is a very interesting interview with a scientist who studies nervous systems.
The brain—brainier than believed before: This article talks about new research and what it tells us about the brain.
The brain: This article talks about the amazing design of the brain.
Our brain: Do we use only a small portion of it?: This article talks about the misconception that we use only a small portion of our brain.
Picture of a real human brain, labeled: This shows you what a real human brain looks like.
Brain and nervous sytems: This is a good discussion of what your brain and nervous system accomplish.
Interactive neuron: This site lets you look at a neuron and mouse over it to learn about different structures. Then you can click on the links at the top (fire, transmission, etc.) to see how neurons operate in the body.
Microscopic image of a neuron: This labeled image is of a real neuron.
Synapse animation: This animation shows how a synapse works.
Synaptic transmission: This animation has a lot of great things. It starts off with the brain and moves on. It is not narrated, but it is very good. You get to sections where you can mouse over neurons and synapses to learn about their parts.
Nervous and endocrine systems: This is a good review of what you've learned, with some new information as well.
Endocrine sytem animation: This is a cute animation about the endocrine system.

Lesson 10

Picture of a real human brain, cut in half and labeled: This shows you what a real human brain looks like when you cut it down the middle. The corpus callosum pointed out in the figure is the structure through which one side of the brain communicates with the other side of the brain.
Structure of the brain: This video discusses the structure of the brain.
Lobes of the brain: This animation shows you the lobes of the brain from many angles and even from the inside.
Lobes of the brain: Review of the lobes of the brain
He brains, she brains: This article discusses the differences between the brains of men and women.
Spinal cord 1: This article has more information on the spinal cord that what is in the book.
Reflex arc animation: This animation shows what happens in a reflex arc.
Hemisphere dominance test: This is a test to see if you are right-brained or left-brained.
Another hemisphere dominance test: This is a different test to see if you are right-brained or left-brained.

Lesson 11

Our senses and the Bible: A good article about how the Bible talks about the senses in ways that teach us more about Jesus and God’s Word.
Your nose: A good article about your nose and the sense of smell.
Sense of smell animation: This animation discusses the sense of smell.
How smell works: This discusses the sense of smell. The video about a dog's sense of smell is very good.
Video about taste: This video discusses the sense of taste.
Tasteless myth: This article discusses how the "tongue map" is not true.
How taste works: This discusses the sense of taste.
Girls have superior sense of taste to boys: This article discusses the results of an interesting experiment comparing girls' and boys' senses of taste.
Animation about hearing: This animation shows how we hear.
Another animation about hearing: This animation is not as complete as the first one, but the animation of how sound travels through the cochlea is better.
How hearing works: This discusses a lot more about the sense of hearing than is covered in the book.
Sense of balance in space: This interesting article discusses how the sense of balance is affected by being in space.
Sense of position: This animation discusses what the book calls your static sense of balance.
Sense of rotation: This animation discusses what the book calls your dynamic sense of balance.
Sense of balance: This animation explains balance in a very detailed way. Even if you don't understand all the words, the animations and visuals are good.
An eye for creation: This is an interesting interview with an opthamologist (eye doctor).
The seeing eye: This is great article about the design of the eye.
The miracle of tears: This is an interesting article about tears.
Could eyes evolve?: This is great article about how the human eye is beyond the reach of evolution.
Seeing: This is an animation about sight.
How to spot: This video teaches you how to spot in dancing.
A test of the effectiveness of spotting: This video goes through a test of how well spotting can help you keep from getting dizzy. It has video at the end of a good dancer spotting.

Lesson 12

Skin: our living armor: This is a good article about the design of skin.
Skin: designed by God: This is another good article about the design of skin.
Skin Deep: This is a good article about skin color.
Your skin: This is a good article about skin.
Video about skin: This is a short video about skin.
Video about skin, hair, and nails: This is a short video about skin, hair, and nails.
What is a birthmark: If you wonder what a birthmark is, this is an interesting article.
Your hair: This is a good article about hair.
How we got red hair: This is a good article about red hair in people.
Microscopic images of the skin: There are a lot of good microscopic pictures of different parts of the skin here, including nerves and hair.
Integumentary system outline: Even though this website is more of an outline than an article, it has some great microscopic photos of skin and hair. There is also a small factoid about a man whose skin turned blue!
Microscopic image of hair: Microscopic images of healthy and damaged hair, and hair with lice.
The FBI on fingerprints: Who would be better than the FBI to teach you about fingerprint?
Your nails: This is a good article on nails.
What's wrong with biting my nails?: This is a good article on what happens when you bite your nails.
The Braille Challenge: This is the sheet you can print out for the Braille challenge.

Lesson 13

Adam and the immune system: Did Adam need an immune system in the garden? This answer to a person's question addresses the issue.
Animation about the immune system: This is a cute animation about the immune system.
Video about bacteria.: This short video has some good bacteria images.
Video about viruses.: This short video has some good virus images.
White blood cell chasing and eating a bacterium.: This video shows a large white blood cell (a neutrophil) chasing and eating a bacterium. The bacterium looks like two small dots put together.
How Antibodies are formed.: This is a good article on how antibodies form.
The lymphatic system.: This is a good article on the lymphatic system.
The lymphatic organs.: Review of the lymphatic system, microscopic pictures, and animation
Killer T-cell video.: This microscopic video shows a killer T-cell at work.
How the immune system works.: This is a good discussion of the details of immunity. There is a great animation about the lymphatic system near the end.
Vaccines: One of the Greatest Medical Advances God has Allowed us to Discover.: This is a detailed discussion of the benefits of vaccination. It also debunks a lot of the anti-vaccination myths.
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Lesson 14

Development of a baby: This video uses several different imaging techniques to show you the development of a baby. Note that there are different ways to measure the time of development. Thus, not all descriptions of development are exactly the same.
Development of a baby II: Another video that uses several different imaging techniques to show you the development of a baby. Note that there are different ways to measure the time of development. Thus, not all descriptions of development are exactly the same.
Tour of genetics: This is a really excellent presentation on genetics. You choose a topic at the top (like "What is DNA?") and then it starts. You do have to click next when the presentation pauses. Choose all topics, because the discussion is really good. If you are having trouble understanding the genetics part of the lesson, for example, the "What is a trait" section does a great job discussing dominant and recessive genes.
DNA: the language of life: This is a good discussion of the design of DNA.
DNA: it beats computers: This audio production discusses how much better DNA is at information storage than our best computers.
DNA: astonishing complexity: This article discusses new understandings of the complexity of DNA.
DNA video: This video discusses DNA.
Mitosis video: See mitosis happening in several different kinds of cells.
If we resemble apes, does that mean we evolved from apes.: This article destroys the myth that similarity in appearance means evolution.
Are there ape-men in your ancestry?: This article discusses how science does not support the idea that humans evolved from some apelike animal.
How tall will you be?: This is a height calculator to help you predict how tall you will be as an adult
Stature prediction: This is another site that will estimate how tall you will be when you grow up.
Evolution: This is a detailed discussion of evolution and why science doesn't support it.
Evolution Refuter: This is a another detailed discussion of evolution and why science doesn't support it.
Bible reading plan: A plan for reading the Bible in a year.
Several Bible reading plans: A plan for reading the Bible in a year for several different versions of the Bible. You can also choose a plan that is chronological (reading the Bible in the order things happened), historical (in the order they were written), or New Testament then Old Testament.

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