Discover the Incredible Machine Inside You

What happens when you take a breath? How does your heart know when to beat faster? Why can your fingers move but your bones can't? In this hands-on anatomy course, students explore the systems that keep the human body alive through scientific drawing, experiments, models, dissections, and notebooking activities. Along the way, they'll learn how the brain, heart, lungs, muscles, bones, teeth, and digestive system work together every second of every day.

Build, Draw, Investigate

This isn't a textbook course. Students build a moving robotic hand, create a working lung model, test their reaction time, measure their pulse during exercise, walk the length of their intestines, investigate tooth decay, and dissect a chicken wing to see how muscles, tendons, and bones work together. Every module includes hands-on activities designed to help students think like scientists and medical explorers.

Create Your Own Human Body Field Guide

Throughout the course, students maintain a Human Body Explorer's Notebook filled with scientific sketches, labeled diagrams, observations, experiment data, and reflections. The course culminates in a life-size anatomy project where students combine everything they've learned into a visual map of the human body. By the end of the course, students won't just know the names of body parts—they'll understand how the systems of the body work together to make life possible.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome!

    2. Human Body Explorer's Notebook Setup

    1. Magic School Bus: Human Body

    2. Organs & Their Functions

    1. How Muscles Move Our Bones

    2. Draw Skeleton

    3. Make Moving Robot Hand

    4. Chicken Wing Dissection Lab

    1. How the Brain Works

    2. Draw the Brain

    3. Brain Hat Part 1

    4. Brain Hat Part 2

    5. Reaction Time Experiment

    1. How the Heart Works

    2. Check Your Pulse

    3. Heart Rate Experiment

    4. Draw the Circulatory System

    5. Build a Working Heart Model

    1. How the Lungs Work

    2. Draw the Respiratory System

    3. Build a Working Lungs Model

About this course

  • $39.99
  • 28 lessons

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

  • What materials do I need?

    Most activities use common household supplies. Required materials include a Human Body Explorer's Notebook (journal or sketchbook), pencils and erasers, colored pencils, markers, or crayons, scissors, tape or glue, and a ruler. Recommended materials include butcher paper or large poster paper, yarn or string, balloons, drinking straws, construction paper, cardstock, a measuring tape, an egg for the Tooth Decay Lab, several beverages such as water, soda, juice, or sports drinks, a chicken wing for the dissection lab, disposable gloves (optional), and plastic sandwich bags. Most materials can be substituted with items already found at home.

  • Is this course really self-paced?

    Yes. There are no live sessions, no deadlines, and no scheduled class times. Your student works through lessons whenever it fits your schedule.

  • How does the mastery-based feedback work?

    When your student submits an assignment, our instructors review it and either approve it or send specific feedback for revision. Students revise and resubmit until the work meets the standard. No moving on until it's solid.

  • How long does the course take to complete?

    Most students finish in 3–5 months, but there's no time limit. Some families move faster, some slower - the course works either way.

  • What do students get when they finish?

    A certificate of completion. The course is transcript-eligible through Wild Oasis Learning, or students can self-report the credit to their own school or program.

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