Level 3 · Science S3.3

Body systems

Your body has teams of organs for eating, breathing and moving blood, and they work together.

Find the organs and the systems they belong to. Follow food through the gut, learn what each nutrient does, build a model lung, see how gases cross into the blood, trace the blood round the body, measure pulse and breathing, and read plain facts about drugs and medicines.

Start readingS3.3.1 Organs and systems

8 chapters. Your place is kept on this device only.

You are ready for this book if

You can count your heartbeats for one minute while you rest.

Contents

  1. 1Organs and systems, readunderstood
  2. 2Digestion, readunderstood
  3. 3Nutrients and diet, readunderstood
  4. 4Breathing, readunderstood
  5. 5Gas exchange in the lungs, readunderstood
  6. 6The heart and blood, readunderstood
  7. 7Pulse, breathing and exercise, readunderstood
  8. 8Drugs, alcohol and health, readunderstood

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For parents and teachers

For learners who can read a page alone and use the four operations. In many schools this fits children of about 11 to 13, and older learners can use it too. Activities use the learner's own body, a clock, cups, paper, a bottle and a balloon. A grown up cuts the bottle for the model lung. Exercise is always optional, and anyone with a heart or breathing illness asks a health worker first. A learner can work alone: every exercise has its answer and the reason for it.

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