The Skeletal System

1. The Skeletal System • Why do we need it? • How can I take care of it?

2. Why do you need your bones? • Your bones protect your other important body parts. • Your bones give you shape.

3. My skull… protects my brain.

4. My rib cage… …protects my heart and lungs.

5. What would you look like without bones? Without bones inside you to give you shape, you would be a BLOB!

6. Interesting facts • The longest bone in your body is the bone above your knee, the thighbone. • Your funny bone isn’t a bone at all. • When you were born, you had more than 300 bones. By the time you stop growing, you’ll have 206. • Your bones are living. They grow as you get older.

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

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

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

10. Works Cited • Avison, Brigid. “I Wonder Why I Blink.” Kingfisher Books, New York. 1993. • Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia • Microsoft Word Clipart