THE HUMAN BODY

Your body has 3 parts:

head

torso

limbs

Your arms and legs are your limbs.

How many parts has your body?Which are they?

Classify the body parts

back eyes fingers chest stomach mouth arms legs nose

THE SKELETON

The skeleton is made of bones

Your body has a skeleton inside

An adult skeleton has 206 bones, but a baby has more.

Bones are hard and rigid. They’re very strong.

Bones are

Hard and

rigid

head

torso

limbs

The skeleton

has 3 parts: head, torso and limbs.

The skull is the head bone.

skull

ribs

spine

The ribs, spine and pelvis are in your torso

In which body part are the ribs?And the spine?

pelvis

The skeleton has 2 functions:

It supports our body.

It protects the delicate organs inside our

body.

The skeleton supports your body

The bones in our body are different.

Some bones are short.

Some bones are long.

Some bones are flat.

Do you remember the functions of the skeleton?

Think

It supports our body

It protects our organs

The skull is the…

We think with our brain

head bone

The skull protects the BRAIN.

Joints help you move your body.

ankle

knee

hipwrist

shoulderelbow

Joints help you move your body. Which are joints in your leg? And in your arm?

ankle

kneehip

wrist

shoulder

elbow

Can you name them?

We have bones and muscles to help us move.

We have 600 MUSCLES.

Bones are…..hard

and

rigid

Muscles are…elastic

softand

Muscles pull bones to move them.

Muscles relax and contract to move our body.

contract

relax

OUR BODY

The ribs ….

The ribs protect the HEART

are in the torso.

and the LUNGS

Our heart pumps blood around our body

blood

Our body needs oxigen. It comes from the air we breathe into the lungs.The main organs are:

Nose

Lungs

Our body needs food. Our digestive system breaks down the food and

absorbs the nutrients.

Teeth

Stomach Small

intestine

Large intestine

Our body removes the waste by the skin, kidneys and bladder .