Your Growing Body

Caring for your nervous system

• eat food that keeps your bones strong

• chew slowly

• wear a helmet to protect brain

caring for your digestive system

• exercise to keep bones healthy

• wear a helmet to protect brain

• eat slowly

caring for your skeletal system

• eat foods that keep your bones strong

• eat slowly

• get enough sleep

I am made up of many small bones. I help you sit, stand, and move. I am also called your backbone.

• brain

• spine

• knee

• heart

We pull on your bones to move them. You should stretch us before and after you exercise.

• blood vessels

• lungs

• brain

• muscles

When you breathe in, ___________ moves into your lungs.

• blood

• water

• food

• air

After you are a teenager you will become an

• adult

• baby

• booger

• puppy

Your _________ lets you think, remember, and have feelings.

• stomach

• heart

• tongue

• brain

What do blood vessels do?

• carry water to the body

• carry blood to the body

• sail on the ocean

The most important organ in the circulatory system

• lungs

• tongue

• brain

• heart