30 Awesome Human Anatomy Resources for Homeschool Science

These human anatomy resources for homeschool science include books, hands-on projects, curriculum, and more.

Starting at a young age my youngest child in particular was obsessed with the human body and how her body worked. Since she was very much a hands-on learner I searched for and provided her lots of hands-on activities to help her explore the human body. Human anatomy is something your children can explore at any age with the right resources.

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Whether you have elementary age children, or kids in high school, this list of human anatomy resources is sure to offer up some fun and learning!

Human Anatomy Books For Children By Age

There are so many wonderful human anatomy and human body books out there. I decided to break these down by ones for young kids through elementary, and then middle/high school and beyond.

Human Body Books for Young Kids

• My First Human Body Book – This cool coloring book includes 28 drawings that explore muscles, bones, lungs, and more. Kids can read about how their voice box works, how their tongue tastes food, how their DNA is different from their family and friends, and more.
• The Human Anatomy and Physiology Coloring Book – There are 50+ illustrations in this activity coloring book for kids and teens.
• Human Body Activity Books for Young Kids – This is a 9 book series for young kids. In this series kids can learn about the human body systems through a wide range of activities, such as coloring, reading, and other activities. These give your children a wonderful chance to learn a lot about the anatomy of their own bodies in simple steps.
• Inside Your Outside: All About the Human Body – Join the Cat in the Hat, Sally and Dick for a ride through the human body where they visit the right and left sides of the brain, meet the Feletons from far off Fadin (when they stand in the sun you can see through their skin), scuba dive through the blood system, follow food and water through the digestive tract, and a whole lot more!
• Human Body Busy Book – This educational book/toy for kids ages 4-8 covers 7 different human body themes across 15 pages, including Human Organs, Brain, Body Parts, Circulatory System, Digestive System, Human Cells, and Skeleton. It provides a brief introduction to these topics, helping kids gain a preliminary understanding of body structure.

Human Anatomy Books for Older Kids

• The Human Body Coloring Book: The Ultimate Anatomy Study Guide – Discover the human body by naming each part and coloring it! Filled with black and white line artwork, this anatomy coloring book helps students study anatomical illustrations in an interactive and fun way. The biology coloring guide gives clear instructions on what needs to be colored and which colors to use. Then students color and label the parts and systems of the body while improving their knowledge of human anatomy. 
• Dover Science Human Anatomy Coloring Book – Contains 43 coloring pages offering numerous views, cross-sections, diagrams and detailed close-ups of each of the body’s individual systems.
• Anatomy & Physiology All-in-One – This is a great guide for developing a deep understanding of the parts of the human body and how it works. Students learn the body’s structures and discover how they function with expert help from the book’s easy-to-use teaching features. They can also go online to access interactive chapter quizzes.

Hands-On Human Body Activities For Your Homeschool

• Mona Melissa Human Body Set – A Peel & Stick Sticker set that includes the muscular, circulatory, digestive, nervous, and skeletal systems.
• The Skeletal System: Hands-On Learning Resources – From books, to games, and hands on creations, there are tons of great skeletal system resources here for you!
• Human Anatomy Models & Aides – Human anatomy models help make the pages of text come alive. With models you can touch, see, and imagine how each part fits together after taking the models apart and then putting them back together again.
• Online High School Virtual Lab – College Prep Science offers kids in grades 7-12 the opportunity to participate in high school labs through their virtual science lab. Biology/ Anatomy & Physiology is just one of 3 different labs that are offered.
• Easy Make & Learn Projects: Human Body – A book of easy how-to’s for making 20 models, manipulatives, and mini-books.
• Tooth Unit Study – A FREE hands-on lapbook project and study of teeth for elementary age students.
• Human Anatomy Models – A miniature set of 4 models (Heart, Brain, Body, Skeleton)
• Wooden Human Body Parts Puzzles for Young Kids – For ages 2-8 these two large puzzles help kids learn human body parts and functions includes: Organs, Skeleton, Muscles, and Circulatory System.
• Human Anatomy Kids Floor Puzzle – 4 Foot Life-Sized Human Anatomy! This floor puzzle is an anatomically accurate cross-section of the entire human body, making it a great educational puzzle for learning the anatomy and the science of the human body.

Human Anatomy Diagramming Lessons

Help your child get excited about homeschool anatomy with these activities for hands on science! Diagram a cell, the skeletal system, the human eye, the human heart and more!

• Diagram of the Ear – This activity is a perfect way to learn the inner workings of the human ear while being creative.
• Skeletal System Activities for Kids including a Diagram Lesson – This collection of fun skeletal system activities for kids includes online lessons, fun facts, and hands-on projects. 
• Tooth Diagram Activity – Simple to draw, this lesson shows kids all the layers of the tooth. 
• Diagram of the Eye – The eye looks so simple, but has so many parts we cannot see! Nana helps students draw both the outside of the eye and the inner workings of the eye. Plus, students can color their eye to match their own eye color. 
• Human Heart Diagram – This intricate lesson doesn’t shy away from detail. Young students will draw a beautiful human heart as well as label al the parts!
• Small But Mighty Cell Activities – Cell diagramming, microscope use and more with these fun cell activities.
• Digestive System Hands-On Science – This digestive system study lesson offers a hands-on homeschool activity that includes art, science, labeling, handwriting, and vocabulary building.

Homeschool Human Anatomy Curriculum Options

• Lyrical Life Science Vol.3: The Human Body – A curriculum that combines catchy songs, with text and workbook pages for kids in grades 4+.
• Fulfilling Homeschool High School Health Credits – This list of homeschool health curriculum is a wonderful way to learn more practical things about the human body like nutrition, hygiene, sleep, cancer, reproduction, first aid, and more.
• Apologia Elementary Science~ Exploring Creation with Human Anatomy Study – This curriculum is written at a 4th grade level but can be used with a wide range of ages from around 2nd grade up to 6th. It consists of text and wonderfully done accompanying notebooks. Apologia is Christian curriculum.
• Young Scientist Anatomy & Physiology – This is an online, self-paced, one semester course for kids in grades 4-7. It covers scientific method, overview of human anatomy and physiology and these systems: skeletal, muscular, circulatory – heart, blood, veins, arteries, digestive, and respiratory. Reproductive system is not covered.
• Great Science Adventures: Discovering the Human Body and Senses – This is an elementary age, secular homeschool curriculum that uses mini-books and activities to learn about the human body. Another review of Discovering the Human Body and Senses.