1. The Skeletal System
Why do we need it?
How can I take care of it?

2. The Skeletal System helps the human body do what it is designed to do, have …
Movement
Action

3. Movement and action are made possible by having …
Bones and Joints
Bones are the hard interior framework of the body.
Joints are the places where the bones come together.

4. Why do you need your bones?
Your bones help you move. (Movement)
Your bones protect your other important body parts. (Protection)
Your bones give you shape. (Support)

5. What is the whole system of bones called?
Skeleton
The skeleton holds up
the legs and neck.

6. What would you look like without bones?
Without bones inside you
to give you shape, you would be a
BLOB!

7. My skull…
protects my
brain.

8. My rib cage…
…protects my
heart
and
lungs.

9. What can you do to take care of your skeletal system?
exercise
Eat dairy foods
play carefully
Sit up straight

10. What can I do to make sure my bones grow?
Make sure you get enough calcium in your diet.
We can get calcium from milk.

11. Interesting facts
The longest bone in your body is the bone above your knee, the thighbone.
Your funny bone isn’t a bone at all.
By the time you stop growing, you’ll have 206 bones!
Your bones are living. They grow as you get older.

12. What do you know? 1. How many bones does the human skeleton have? 206
2. What are the two things that human body is designed to do?
movement and action
3. What does the skeleton hold up?
legs and neck

13. What do you know?
4. What are the places where the bones come together?
joints
5. What is the whole system of bones?
skeleton
6. What are the three functions of the skeleton?
movement, support, and protection

14. What do you know? 7. What is very important for bone growth? calcium
8. What is the hard interior framework of the body?
bones
9. Where can you get calcium?
milk

15. What do you know? 10. What does the skull protect? brain
11. What bones protect the lungs?
ribs