Lesson 17 of 84 · The Human Body
Lesson⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild JungleJoints: Where Bones Meet
The Human Body.
🎯 Your mission
Understand the idea. Then look for it everywhere.
⚡ The twist
Living things break the rules of non-living things — find the rule they break.
Mind = Blown
🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.
Make a hypothesis first
Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?
What You'll Learn
The skeletal system and muscular system work together as the musculoskeletal system. Tendons connect muscles to bones, and ligaments connect bones to other bones at joints.
Key Words
- nervous system
- circulatory system
- respiratory system
Steps
Look at the vocabulary words and write a definition for each in your own words.
Map your taste zones: dip cotton swabs in salty, sweet, sour, and bitter solutions. Touch different areas of your tongue and record where each taste is strongest.
Use your senses (except taste) to describe what you notice.
Write a summary of your findings in 3-5 sentences.
Check Your Understanding
Question 1
1 of 3What is the largest organ of the human body?
Where you see this in real life
Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.
Stretch Challenge
Try this in real life this week.
Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.
For the dinner table
“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”
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