Muscular System
Muscles are attached to your bones to help
them move. Without muscles you couldn't move at all! Muscles also give us
strength. Muscles are constantly doing simple things like helping you blink or
breath. They also do harder chores like help you run, jump, and play. So how do
they work?
Explore Your
Multi-talented Muscles. Then look at Muscular Introduction , and Your
Gross & Cool Body: Muscular System and answer these questions:
1. Do you have more bones or more muscles? How do you know?
2. How do muscles work? List and describe the job of each type of muscle.
a.
b.
c.
3. Write 10 interesting facts about muscles.
4. Draw and label the different muscles and describe what each type does.
Respiratory System
What's a respiratory system? Breathing and
the way your body uses oxygen is called respiration. We must breath to live.
The organs used to help you breathe and use oxygen make up the Respiratory
System.
Learn about your respiratory system at Thinkquest and at the Franklin Institute. You may want
to also look at the video at How the Body Works - The Respiratory System at KidsHealth
and the drawing for Asthma. You also may want to
watch the video at this Asthma
website.
1. Draw and label your Respiratory System.
Investigate coughing and sneezing at Washington
Post Health.
2. Compare a cough and a sneeze. What are the
similarities and differences?
Look at The
Respiratory System.
3. What is the Respiratory System ? How does it
work? Share at least two interesting facts about the Respiratory System.
4. Describe how the air passes through the
respiratory system, the four major areas it travels through, and what happens
in each place.
