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Your Wonderful Body
EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANT:
Jeanne S. Brouillette
Curriculum Coordinator, Evanston Elementary Schools
This book has been tested with children in primary classes.
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Wonderful
Body
illustrated by Robert Frankenber%
skins.
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The knee is a joint. The hip is a joint.
This set of
muscles bends This set of
and straightens muscles bends
your wrist. and straightens
your elbow.
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Muscles need three things to do their
work. They need food. They need oxygen,
The blood carrying food and oxygen runs through arteries (red).
The blood carrying waste runs through veins (blue).
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Waste out
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Food and
oxygen in
The blood does the same things for the
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To the lungs
14
When you work hard, your muscles use more
of more waste.
This is why the heart pumps faster when
you run or play.
15
How does food get from your mouth to
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17
How do muscles know when to work? Messages
from the brain tell most muscles when to work.
These messages travel in the nerves.
body.
18
How does the brain decide what messages to
the body.
20
Message
to the brain
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Inner ear
Middle ear
Nerves to the brail
Outer ear
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Hair
Pore
Dead skin
New skin
Nerve
lood to the
heart
Blood from
the heart
fingers.
23
You taste with your tongue. One part of
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When you swallow, this
opening closes to keep
food from going to your
lungs.
25
Some very important parts of your body
skin clean.
27
How a
X
baby grows
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Your body can do wonderful things.
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Words Younger Children May Need Help With
the sound.
Now have your friend cover one of his ears with his hand.
Do the experiment again. This time he will find it much harder
to point to the right spot.
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