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Bones & Muscles

From Bill Nye the Science Guy · 1994

Bones & Muscles
23 min3rd4th5th6thScienceHealth
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Summary

Bill shows how your skeleton and muscles team up: bones give you a frame and muscles pull on them to move you.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Bill shows how your skeleton and muscles team up: bones give you a frame and muscles pull on them to move you..

  1. What would happen to your body without a skeleton?
  2. How do muscles make a bone move?
  3. Why do you need joints?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: skeleton, muscle, joint.

Try it: Bend your arm and feel which muscle tightens, then explain what it's pulling on.