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    The skeletal system serves several important purposes for the body. It provides structure and shape to the body, protects major organs like the brain and lungs, and enables movement through levers and muscles connecting to bones. Additionally, bones produce blood cells in bone marrow cavities and store important minerals like calcium. Maintaining strong bones through adequate calcium intake is important for overall health.

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    The skeletal system serves several important purposes for the body. It provides structure and shape to the body, protects major organs like the brain and lungs, and enables movement through levers and muscles connecting to bones. Additionally, bones produce blood cells in bone marrow cavities and store important minerals like calcium. Maintaining strong bones through adequate calcium intake is important for overall health.

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    The skeletal system serves several important purposes for the body. It provides structure and shape to the body, protects major organs like the brain and lungs, and enables movement through levers and muscles connecting to bones. Additionally, bones produce blood cells in bone marrow cavities and store important minerals like calcium. Maintaining strong bones through adequate calcium intake is important for overall health.

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    SKELETON: BONES IN YOUR BODY

    Purpose of the Skeletal System:


     Support - The skeleton provides the framework for the body. Bones provide
    the basic shape and structure for the body. What do you think we would look
    like if we didn’t have bones? Pretty silly right? The bones are like the beams
    inside of a building, and all of our organs, muscles and skin are organized
    around the bones, just like the walls of a building.
     Protection - The skeleton protects organs in the body. Bones can cover and
    protect many of out major organs. They are like an armour that protects our
    insides. Can anyone think of any examples?
    1. Skull: protects the brain
    2. Ribs: protects the lungs, heart and some digestive organs
    3. Pelvis: protects and supports the digestive and reproductive organs
    4. Spinal column: protects the spine
    
    Movement - The bones are the levers that help the body move in different
    directions and in different ways. Here is a question for you all: Do bones move
    by themselves when we walk, talk or move around? Or are they controlled by
    something else? What makes them move? Muscles move bones by contracting,
    which pulls the bone, causing us to move around. The bones by themselves
    can’t move without the muscles that are connected to them.

    Additional purposes
     Blood Cell Production - Inside of the long bones in our bodies (we will talk
    more about the different types of bones later on), there is a cavity that is filled
    with a substance called Bone Marrow. In this tissue, new blood cells are
    produced, and damaged blood cells are repaired. We are going to talk more
    about bone marrow in the next lesson.

     Mineral Storage - Can someone describe what a mineral is to the class? It is


    a substance that the body needs to carry out all of our bodily functions like
    thinking, breathing and moving around. One of the minerals that the body
    needs is calcium. Calcium is a major part of bone, and this is where the body
    stores its calcium. It is very important to make sure you eat enough calcium
    each day because if you don’t get enough calcium, your body will take the
    calcium it needs from your bones. Can someone tell me why this could be bad?
    The less calcium the bone has, the weaker it will become.
    SKELETON: BONES IN YOUR BODY

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