Skeletons: why bones matter from youth to aging
Skeletons provide structure and protect organs while enabling movement. Bones store calcium, produce marrow cells, and stay living tissue. With age, bone breakdown can outpace rebuilding, so a strong skeleton built early helps prevent brittleness and fractures.
Bone Facts for Strong Bones Through Exercise
The text states humans have 54 hand and wrist bones and 52 foot and ankle bones. It notes five percent have an extra rib and that most extras are in men. It identifies the stirrup bone as smallest and femur as largest, and emphasizes weight bearing exercise as crucial for growth, recommending running walking dancing soccer basketball jumping rope.
Healthy calcium rich foods for strong bones
This piece explains the need for minerals calcium and phosphorus to support bone forming cells. It promotes milk as the best option for growing kids and notes vitamin D from fortified milk and sun aids bone building. It also suggests cheese pizza yogurt pudding soup and leafy greens as calcium sources.
Protect Your Bones with Safe Backpacks and Gear
Advice on using the waist strap with heavy backpacks and choosing rolling backpacks. Emphasizes wearing helmets and kneepads for skating and skateboarding and helmets for biking. Notes that kids heal faster than adults but a broken bone is painful for anyone.
Me and My Amazing Body and You Can't See Your Bones
Library listings highlight two children’s books. Me and My Amazing Body by Joan Sweeney and You Can t See Your Bones With Binoculars by Harriet Ziefert appear in the featured display.
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Joan Sweeney
Harriet Ziefert
Ghosts and Ghouls Shop in Cold Boutiques
Erin asks where ghosts shop and Evan replies in boutiques. Morgan pipes in with a snowman joke about hearing ice screams in a haunted house told by Maddie.
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Morgan
Maddie
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Bluebirds Learn to Shout Louder Amid Human Noise
The note describes how male bluebirds adjust songs in real time to counter loud human noise by increasing volume and lowering pitch. It also prompts learning bone names from an illustration and quizzing others on them.
Teachers: For standards based activities accompanying feature
Notes point readers to teaching guides and standards based activities linked at bbs.amuniversal.com/teaching guides.htm for educators.
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Bbs.amuniversal.com
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