Human Body Webquest

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.

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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.

 

 

 

Take the Respiratory System Quiz. Show me your results at the end for a process score.