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Skin

From Bill Nye the Science Guy · 1993

Skin
23 min3rd4th5th6thScienceHealth
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Summary

Your biggest organ is the one you're wearing. Bill explores how skin keeps the outside out, the inside in, and helps you feel and cool down.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

Your biggest organ is the one you're wearing.

  1. What jobs does your skin do all day?
  2. How does sweating help cool you off?
  3. Why does skin heal itself when you get a scrape?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: organ, sweat, sense.

Try it: List three things your skin protected you from today and how it did it.

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