Types of muscles

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/skeletalsmoothandcardiac/heart_beat.shtml


With that information, can you give some examples of organs that have:
  a) smooth muscles: ________________________________________________________________
  b) skeletal muscles: ________________________________________________________________
  c) cardiac muscle: _________________________________________________________________

Write True or False:

1. Muscles in the arm are involuntary muscles.  ________
2. The muscle which makes the heart is an involuntary muscle.  ________
3. Muscles in the stomach are involuntary muscles. ________
4. Muscles in the leg are voluntary muscles.  __________
5. Muscles in the bladder are involuntary.  _________

A game to play about muscles:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml?muscles

Were you able to find their place on the body?

If you had some difficulties, go to these links to help you:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/muscle_anatomy.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/factfiles/muscle_anatomy_back.shtml

Games with bones and muscles

Dear favourite climbers:
Go on climbing up our body!. There you have some enjoyable activities to practise about bones.
1) Label bones:
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/smallskel.html

2) Please, read about bones and follow the instructions:
http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/science/bodyandmedicine/skeleton.asp

3) In the following website, I want you to click on "Quiz" and answer the questions. What is your score?. Also play "label".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/moving_growing_fs.shtml

What a piece of cake!!!!

dancing bones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwQoKiENkh4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBkrWd03cvM&feature=related

Just to have fun, enjoy these short videos.

Climbing up bones

Now that most of you are very interested in how your body works, let's talk about BONES. You know something about them: they can be broken or damaged! Is that right? Ask Paula, Germán, Amable, Pablo...am I forgetting anyone?

If you want to know why it hurts when you have a broken bone, click here http://kidshealth.org/misc/movie/bodybasics/bone.html

Have you observed how many things we have inside a bone?

Scary monsters in my class

These are my favorite climbers of Year 6A and Year 6B. That day, we were climbing up mistery and terror. Can you see their faces?