Books with title The Muscular System

Don't move a muscle--read all about them! Did you know that... Without muscles you couldn't blink--or even breathe!Nearly 700 muscles control your life.Big or small, a muscle is made up of just one cell.Exercise doesn't give you more muscles, but it strengthens the ones you have.Discover how muscles make us move--and see what it really looks like under your skin.Award winning author Seymour Simon continues his fantastic journey through the human body with this stunning new addition. In MUSCLES, youngsters will learn about the different kinds of muscles within the body, from those they control to the ones that work without their even knowing it. Blending spectacular full-color photographs and clear, concise text, MUSCLES offers an intriguing look at human body.

What happens when you break a bone? Why do your muscles get big with exercise? Find the answer to these questions and more in a guided tour of The Skeletal and Muscular Systems. Kids can follow colorful cartoon muscles and bones as they describe how bones make up your skeleton and give the body form. See what happens when a bone breaks. Find out how three kinds of muscles are the body’s engines that make you move. With bright, colorful pages, World Book’s Building Blocks of Life Science helps make learning fun and easy for young students with a primary reading level of grades 3 through 5. Each book focuses on a particular organ system in the human body. Cartoon guides creatively pair humor with fact-filled text. They make even the most difficult topics in human anatomy easy to understand. Helpful glossaries and indexes in each volume direct students to the most important terms and topics. Help young learners in your life get ahead—and have fun doing so—with World Book’s Building Blocks of Life Science!

Grade Level: 4-12Reading Level: 3-5Since the beginning of time, people have been captivated by objects in space. Early astronomers could only speculate about the nature of the universe. Today, with the help of sophisticated equipment, we know more. Students are sure to be fascinated by the interesting information found in this book about the sun, planets, and moon. The colorful photo of the planets will add to the appeal of learning about our solar system. Each story is followed by questions to test understanding as well as a research activity to extend learning. Accompanying each story is an activity page which requires the learner to use context clues to further demonstrate understanding. A great way to boost reading comprehension skills! 40 pages.