Your Skin the Integumentary System

Here is a link to a web site we have set up for you to learn about your skin and the effects of UV Rays.  

Click here to access the web site.

Here is a link to the form to fill out.
Click here to access.

Today we will be learning about the structure and function of our skin.

Click above to access the worksheet.

Here is the link to the homework webquest investigation EM Spectrum and UV Rays.

Here is the link to the FDA site.

Some cool facts to get us started:

• Skin is your largest organ in your body!
• Your skin accounts for 15% of your body weight!
• Over 50% of dust in your home is dead skin.....YUCK!
• Your skin has its own micro-biome...over 1,000 species of bacteria on it.
• It takes babies 6 months to develop their permanent skin tone.  

Introduction to the Skeletal and Muscular System

Skeletal Systems Structure and Function:
Structure:
bones, ligaments, cartilage, tendons, joints (location not structure)

Function:
1. protection
2. support/ shape
3. create blood cells
4. storage
5. movement


Interactive Sites:
PHSchool.com
Webcode- CEP - 4012

Learn the Bones - ABCya

BBC - Joints Interactive

Inner Body - Joints and Skeleton of leg and foot

Wisc online- Skeleton

Online Open Heart Lab

Link to Open Heart Lab

Gas Exchange Helpful Links

Click here and Read the following article- Respiratory System Discovery Kids and then answer the questions on the provided worksheet in class.

Oxygen in our Air - click here to access article
Oxygen in our Air Questions - click here to access questions.

Connecting the circulatory and respiratory systems together!

The Gas Exchange - Interactive sites

Link- About Kids Health- Gas Exchange

Link - Wisc Online Gas Exchange

Circulatory and Respiratory System - Breathing and Gas Exchange.

Today we introduced the respiratory system and will look at how do the circulatory and respiratory system work together to produce energy in your body.

Here is an image of the respiratory system and its structures.

Here is an image of the gas exchange that occurs between the alveoli and the capillaries.

This is a really good interactive site for looking at the breathing process.

Access code: cep-4041

Interactive Heart Site for National Geographic and American Heart Association

Heart, Heart Information, Cardiovascular Facts, News, Photos -- National Geographic

American Heart Association Link
Choose Blood Flow and Coronary Arteries from the drop down.

On the provided Heart Diagram please label the:

1. 4 chambers of the heart

2. pulmonary vein and artery

3. 4 heart valves

4. sinoatrial nodes (S-A Node) and atrial-ventricular node (A-V Node)

5. septum

6. aorta

7. aortic arch

If done color code oxygen rich blood red and oxygen poor blood blue.