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The Amazing Muscular System!

The Amazing Muscular System!. By Jay, Lee, and Zach E. Introduction. Your muscular system does lots of important jobs. It helps you move, pumps your blood, helps you digest food and even helps you breathe. Inside a Muscle. How it Works.

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The Amazing Muscular System!

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  1. The Amazing Muscular System! By Jay, Lee, and Zach E.

  2. Introduction Your muscular system does lots of important jobs. It helps you move, pumps your blood, helps you digest food and even helps you breathe.

  3. Inside a Muscle

  4. How it Works When you want to move your arm one muscle contracts and the other one relaxes. So that makes your muscle pick up your arm. That is how you pick up weights.

  5. What the Muscle Is Made Of Did you know your muscle is made of small muscle fibers? Connective tissue is what holds the fibers together so they don’t fall apart. A stretchable material called a tendon is what connects the muscles to your bones.

  6. How to Make Healthy Muscles!!! • Run • Lift weights • Jump rope • Play sports • Push ups • Pull ups • Eat healthy food

  7. Facts about the muscles!!! • Your heart is a muscle. • Your tongue is a muscle. • There are about 350 muscles in the human body. • Muscles are made of fibers. • The muscular system is the largest system in your body.

  8. More Amazing Facts About Muscles!!! • Muscles weigh half the amount of your body. • The tendon is what holds the muscle in place. • The fiber bundle is what holds the fibers together just like connective tissue.

  9. Bibliography!!! Amazing Human Body CD-ROM. New York: DK Interactive Learning, 1997. Discovery Communications Inc. "Your Gross & Cool Body." The Yuckiest Site on the Internet 2000. On-line. Internet. June 15, 2001. Available: http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/flash/body/ McGann, Andrew. “The Skeletal System.” A Look Inside the Human Body. On-line. Internet. June 15, 2001. Available: http://bart.northnet.com.au/~amcgann/body/index.html Scholastic. The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body CD-ROM. Microsoft Corporation,1995. Your Wonderful Body. Washington D.C. National Geographic Society,1982

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