Books with title The Human Body in Minutes

Unveil the impressive mysteries of your own body with this interactive trivia book from Jeopardy! champ and New York Times bestselling author Ken Jennings.With this book about the amazing human body, you’ll become an expert and wow your friends and teachers with awesome anatomical facts: Did you know that your hair is as strong as copper wire? Or that if you could spread them out, your lungs would have the surface area of a tennis court? With great illustrations, cool trivia, and fun quizzes to test your knowledge, this guide will have you on your way to whiz-kid status in no time!

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.