Week 9 — Readings & Resources

Human Anatomy and Physiology I Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 9 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 53–62 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when one part of the skeleton still feels shaky, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (17–22 min total)

① Sorting 206 bones into two divisions

Chapter 9, Section “Sort the skeleton: two divisions and the girdle rule” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Sort the skeleton: two divisions and the girdle rule” · Remember: if a bone attaches a limb, it belongs to the appendicular skeleton, so the girdle bones count with the limbs.

Joints: Crash Course Anatomy & Physiology #20 — CrashCourse — a quick, lively episode that sorts the skeleton into its axial and appendicular parts, then classifies joints by structure and by function and runs through the main movements; pause each time a bone is named and say which division it belongs to. This builds on Week 7's work with a single long bone: now the bones are sorted into a whole skeleton. (video, 9 min) (captions: creator)
SKELETON BONES SONG - LEARN IN 3 MINUTES!!! — Neural Academy — a short memory song that walks the skeleton region by region; it names more bones than this course asks for, so use it to rehearse the regions and the two divisions, and check any count it sings against the chapter. (video, 3 min) (captions: creator)
How to Learn the Human Bones — RegisteredNurseRN — memory tricks for the bones of the body from a nursing-education channel; it goes into more named bones than this course does, so keep the parts on the limbs and the vertebrae and skip the full list of skull bones. (video, 8 min) (captions: creator)
The Bony Thorax - True vs. False Ribs - What is the role of the floating ribs? — Dr.A Explains Anatomy — a two-minute look at the sternum and the rib groups; listen for where the floating ribs sit and check that they land inside the false ribs, not beside them. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)

② Telling joints apart, inside and out

Chapter 9, Section “Open a synovial joint: five parts and one fluid” · Session 2, Segment 8, “Open a synovial joint: five parts and one fluid” · Remember: the synovial membrane makes the synovial fluid, and the fluid feeds the articular cartilage.

JOINTS - Made Easy- Structural and Functional Classifications — Dr.A Explains Anatomy — a short walk through the two ways to sort a joint, by what holds it together and by how much it moves; before each example is labeled, say its structural class and its functional class yourself. (video, 7 min) (captions: creator)
Health Lesson: Learning About Joints — National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases — a plain-language health lesson from a federal health institute on what joints are made of, how the synovial membrane makes the fluid, and the shapes movable joints come in; it calls the plane joint a gliding joint, so match its names to the chapter's six types. Use it while working through the Week-9 module overview. (reading, 5–8 min)
Mystery solved: Why knuckles crack — Science News Explores — a short science-news story on what happens inside a finger joint when it pops; the fluid it describes between the two bones is the synovial fluid in a synovial joint's cavity, so name those two structures as you read. (reading, 3–5 min)

③ Naming moves and the shoulder's trade

Chapter 9, Section “Weigh the trade: mobility versus stability” · Session 2, Segment 11, “Weigh the trade: mobility versus stability” · Remember: the shoulder's shallow socket buys range and gives up hold, while the hip's deep socket holds firm and carries the body's weight.

Easiest Way to Remember Movement Terms — Corporis — a friendly tour of the words for joint movements, with a trick for each pair; do every move along with it and say whether an angle changed or the limb left the midline. Stop here before the muscles that make these moves; next week takes up muscle. (video, 9 min) (captions: creator)
Shoulder Dislocation — OrthoInfo — a plain-language page from a professional body of bone surgeons on the shoulder as a ball-and-socket joint with a shallow socket; read the anatomy and cause sections as the clinical connection step, and stop before the examination and treatment sections, which go past this course's stopping point. (reading, 4–6 min)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

Divisions of the Skeleton — SEER Training Modules, National Cancer Institute — the course's free online anatomy reference, open at its page on the axial and appendicular skeleton; read the overview of the two divisions and skip the lists of bone markings on the pages beyond it, which go past this course. (reading, 3–5 min)

Heads-up (links rot): these point to outside sites that occasionally move or rename pages. If a link ever fails, tell your instructor and use the reference above in the meantime.

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