The Muscular System moves the body, gives it posture and circulates the blood. It is made up of three types of muscles: skeletal, smooth & cardiac muscles. The books, websites and other activities on this page will help you get starting doing research to learn how the muscular system makes your body move.
Websites, Activities & Printables:
- KidsHealth: Your Muscles
- DK Find Out! Muscular System
- KidsHealth Interactive Diagram: Muscles & Joints
- Wonderopolis: Why Do Athletes Stretch Before They Work Out?
- Wonderopolis: What Is the Strongest Muscle in the Body?
- Wonderopolis: Why Do Your Muscles Cramp?
- BBC Human Anatomy: Muscle Diagram
Science in Context: Muscular System is a database you can use in any IndyPL Library Branch or at home. Login using your IndyPL library card number. Science in Context will show you biographies, magazines, videos and more about the Muscular System.
Books:
Use your indyPL Library Card to check out books about the circulatory system at any of our locations, or check out e-books and e-audiobooks from home right to your device. Need help? Call or ask a Library staff member at any of our locations or text a librarian at 317 333-6877.
Human Body Facts and Functions Revealed in Diagrams, Infographics, and Photographs
15 books for kids that explore the digestive, circulatory, nervous, excretory, muscular, and respiratory systems. Learn the names of each body part and all the details about how they function together to keep us breathing, dancing, jumping and running. #indyplkids IndyPL_CarrieW
Illumanatomy
Rather than using clear plastic pages to reveal different layers of the body, this one uses color lenses to reveal them. Red reveals the skeleton, green reveals muscles, and blue reveals organs.
See Inside the Human Body
5 See-through Pages Reveal the Body's Systems
This one has the clear plastic pages you can turn to reveal the different layers of the human body. Peel back the skin and the muscles to "see" the deeper nerves and organs of the body systems.
Understanding Our Muscles
All about how muscles, tendons, and nerves work together to make our bodies move.