The Skeletal System

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The Skeletal System

• Why do we need it?
• How can I take care of it?

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BONES
Job 1
Job 2
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Why do you need your bones?

• Your bones protect your other important body
  parts.
• Your bones give you shape.

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My skull

• protects
• my
• brain.

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My rib cage

• protects
• my
• heart
• and
• lungs.

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What would you look like without bones?

• Without bones inside you
• to give you shape, you would be a
• BLOB!

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Interesting facts

• The longest bone in your body is the bone above
  your knee, the thighbone.
• Your funny bone isnt a bone at all.
• When you were born, you had more than 300 bones.
  By the time you stop growing, youll have 206.
• Your bones are living. They grow as you get
  older.

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What can you do to take care of your skeletal
system?
exercise
Eat dairy foods
play carefully
Sit up straight
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Skeletal Summary

• The skeletal system has two jobs
• protects our other important body parts.
• gives us shape.

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Skeletal Summary

• It is important to take care of our skeletal
  system by
• Exercising
• Playing carefully
• Eat dairy foods
• Sitting up straight

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Works Cited

• Avison, Brigid. I Wonder Why I Blink.
  Kingfisher Books, New York. 1993.
• Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia
• Microsoft Word Clipart