1. The Amazing Muscular System!

2. Introduction
Your muscular system does lots of important jobs. It helps you:
move
pumps your blood
helps you digest food
helps you breathe.

3. Inside a Muscle

4. How it Works
When you want to move your arm one muscle contracts and the other one relaxes. So that makes your muscle pick up your arm. That is how you pick up weights.

5. What the Muscle Is Made Of?
Your muscles are made of small muscle fibers.
Tendons are stretchable material that connects
the muscles to your bones.

6. How do our muscles work?
Our muscles work by contracting and relaxing

7. How to Make Healthy Muscles!!!
Run
Lift weights
Play sports
Drink milk
Eat healthy food

8. Facts about the muscles!!!
Your heart is a muscle.
Your tongue is a muscle.
There are about 350 muscles in the human body.
Muscles are made of fibers.
The muscular system is the largest system in your body.

9. More Amazing Facts About Muscles!!!
Muscles weigh half the amount of your body.
The tendon is what holds the muscle in place.
The fiber bundle is what holds the fibers together just like connective tissue.

10. Bibliography!!!
Amazing Human Body CD-ROM. New York: DK Interactive Learning, 1997.
Discovery Communications Inc. "Your Gross & Cool Body." The Yuckiest Site on the Internet On-line. Internet. June 15, 2001.
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McGann, Andrew. “The Skeletal System.” A Look Inside the Human Body. On-line. Internet. June 15, 2001.
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Scholastic. The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body CD-ROM. Microsoft Corporation, 1995.
Your Wonderful Body. Washington D.C. National Geographic Society,1982