Weekly Roundup: Need to Flex Your Muscles?

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We hope you’ve been enjoying diving into The Human Body! If you or your kids are anything like us, you’re always hungry for more facts and information. Our handbook is a great resource for learning more, but the amount of information we gathered was busting at its virtual seams. So, following our roundup of skeletal system links, here’s what you need to know about muscles!

  • Always a helpful jumping-off point, Wikipedia’s entry on the muscular system is extremely thorough. It’s also a bit more technical, so it’s perfect for kids looking to flex their impressive memorization skills.
  • There are over 30 muscles in your face that help you show emotions—something we learned from Discovery Kids’ resource on “Your Muscle System.”
  • Asking the question, “What is the strongest muscle in the human body?,” has a few answers as Kyle Hill, author of Science-Based Life, teaches us.
  • Between our 206 bones and 650 muscles working together, there’s still plenty that can go wrong. This article by KidsHealth looks at the changes that can affect these two systems in our teenage years.
  • If your muscles didn’t work in pairs, you’d move once and then be stuck forever! Here’s a fun interactive GIF by the BBC that demonstrates the importance of muscular pairs.

We hope you’ve been enjoying diving into The Human Body! If you or your kids are anything like us, you’re always hungry for more facts and information. Our handbook is a great resource for learning more, but the amount of information we gathered was busting at its virtual seams. So, following our roundup of skeletal system links, here’s what you need to know about muscles!

  • Always a helpful jumping-off point, Wikipedia’s entry on the muscular system is extremely thorough. It’s also a bit more technical, so it’s perfect for kids looking to flex their impressive memorization skills.
  • There are over 30 muscles in your face that help you show emotions—something we learned from Discovery Kids’ resource on “Your Muscle System.”
  • Asking the question, “What is the strongest muscle in the human body?,” has a few answers as Kyle Hill, author of Science-Based Life, teaches us.
  • Between our 206 bones and 650 muscles working together, there’s still plenty that can go wrong. This article by KidsHealth looks at the changes that can affect these two systems in our teenage years.
  • If your muscles didn’t work in pairs, you’d move once and then be stuck forever! Here’s a fun interactive GIF by the BBC that demonstrates the importance of muscular pairs.