Human Body: Skeleton & Muscles
The frame that holds you up, and the muscles that move it.
What this lesson covers
Human Body: Skeleton & Muscles is a 8-part Class 4 Science lesson. Each part makes one point and then hands over to the next, so it can be read in a sitting or picked up again at the part you stopped on. It defines the idea in plain words before using it, works through an example step by step, breaks the topic into its parts and compares them, shows where it is used outside the textbook, names the mistakes that cost marks in an exam, ends with a recap of what to remember.
How it begins
Your skeleton is the frame of bones inside you: 206 of them in an adult. It does three jobs: Support, holds you upright. Without it you would collapse. Protection: the skull guards the brain, the ribs guard the heart and lungs. Movement: bones give muscles something to pull against.
The 8 parts
- Why you need a skeleton
- Bones and joints
- Muscles pull: they never push
- Feeling it work
- Looking after bones and muscles
- Where it usually goes wrong
- What to remember
- Watch one worked through
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