What is inside your body?
• organs
• teeth
• bones
• muscle
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Bones
Skull
ribcage
ribs
hand bones
arm bones
leg bones
feet bones
spine
other parts
Tongue
teeth
eyes
lungs
heart
liver
blood
All the bones together
make up the skeleton
• Do your bones bend?
• How many bones do you
think you have in your
leg?
• Where do the two bones
join?
Why do we need a skeleton?
Functions of the skeleton
1.It gives your body
shape
2.Allows you to move
3.Makes blood cells
4.Protects your organs
5.Stores minerals
Bones in the skeleton
All the bones in our bodies are
different shapes and sizes.
Bones cannot bend.
Bones are joined together, the joints
are the parts that can bend.
A skeleton is made up of many bones.
The skeletons of animals are different.
It is possible to guess the shape of an
animal by looking at a skeleton.
Animals and their skeletons
Bird
Crocodile
Gorilla
Snake
Horse
Fish
What would you like to know?
Skull
Collarbone
Upper arm bone
Lower arm bones
Hand bones
Rib cage
Spine
Pelvis
Upper leg bone
Knee cap
Lower leg bones
Foot bones
Skull
Clavicle
Scapula
Humerus
Rib cage
Radius
Spine
Ulna
Phalanges
Pelvis
Femur
Patella
Fibula
Tibia
Phalanges
Did you know....
There are 27 bones in each hand
and 26 bones in each foot.
Together these make up more
than half of the bones in the
body
An adult human’s body is made up 206 bones
Children have between 270 and 300
bones in their bodies. As they grow
some of these bones fuse together.
The femur, or thighbone, is the longest and strongest
bone of the human skeleton.
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