Books with title The Human Body: The Skeleton

Discover cool facts about the human body with this fun, innovative 3D format! How do bones and muscles work? What part of our brain helps us to see and hear? How does blood get from our heart to our other organs? Answers to these fascinating questions and more lay inside The Human Body: A Lens Book, an inspiring and creative illustrated book that promises to provide hours of fun and learning for kids. Use the three different color lenses in the book's cover to make discoveries about all the systems of the body, including organs, the skeleton, the muscles, and more. You'll never look at your body the same way again after learning all these curious facts about what makes us human.

The Human Body presents information and investigations on these nine concepts: * Cells are the fundamental unit of life * Specialized cells protect the body from harmful substances * Food follows a path as it is digested * Good nutrition provides energy for cell growth and repair * The heart and lungs work together * Muscles and bones provide movement and support * The nervous system relays messages to and from the brain * Parents pass traits to future generations * Body systems interact

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. This is a photographic nonfiction companion book to the original bestselling title, The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body, which taught thousands of kids about the incredible systems that work together to make the human body function. The Human Body will expand upon the original title with fresh, updated Common Core-aligned content about our amazing bodies. With vivid full-color photographs on each page and illustrations of the beloved Ms. Frizzle and her students, the Magic School Bus Presents series will enthrall a whole new generation of Magic School Bus readers.

Discover what goes into every drop of your blood, compare the size of your lungs to the surface area of a tennis court, find out how many pencils the carbon in your body would fill, and more! From bone structure and muscles to the senses, our central nervous systems, and reproduction, this book explores the human body using a wide variety of icons, graphics, and pictograms.

The science and inventions that make us who we are . . . literally!Did you know the first blood transfusions were between people and lambs? Or that the first prosthetic hand with a hook was created so a French soldier could hold the reins of his horse in battle? Or that scientists recently grew a nose? Invention & Impact, an exciting new series from PYRG-Smithsonian, introduces young readers to experiments, discoveries, and breakthroughs such as these, which have huge impacts on our world. Designed with exciting images from the Smithsonian's vast collections, each highly visual book in the series starts with a big idea and then explores that concept through specific objects that give kids the micro and meta picture on how inventions and ideas connect over time.The debut book in the series looks at one of the most complex systems on planet Earth: the human body. From artificial eyeballs to aspirin to 3-D printed body parts, The Human Body profiles the objects that scientists and tinkerers throughout history have invented (or cobbled together) to protect, repair, or improve our physical selves. And there are plenty of fascinating stories behind these objects!

The body is fascinating for young readers, but also confusing. Where exactly is the liver? What do the lungs do? What's the difference between the upper colon and the lower colon? The Wonders Inside: The Human Body answers all these questions and more in a way that entertains inquisitive young minds. The book features special see-through, layer-by-layer views of the body's organs and systems. Dramatic 3-D sections and cutaways show the body from unique angles and provide additional views of its inner workings. Clear text, a glossary, list of facts increase the book's usefulness.