From top to toe -- Outside in -- Super skeleton -- Magic muscles -- On the move -- Brainy! -- On your nerves -- Super senses -- Eye-mazing -- all ears -- Smell, taste, and touch -- Your beating heart -- Blood takes a trip -- Breathtaking! -- Open wide! -- Food's journey -- Waste workers -- Instant messaging -- Babies! -- Growing up -- Feeling better? -- Test your memory.
Summary:
"Even the smallest bodies have over 200 bones and about 600 muscles! In this wonderful companion to elementary science topics, future medical professionals will love learning these facts and more and thinking of how they apply to their own amazing bodies. Complex topics such as the functions of the human brain are made easy to comprehend through at-level text, labeled images, and do-it-yourself activities. Fun illustrations, funny captions, and more-to-know fact boxes make the text motivating for the most reluctant readers. A final quiz about essential information offers an opportunity for self-assessment"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.