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🦴 The Human Skeleton and Reproduction

Explore the 206 bones that hold you together, then learn respectfully how the body grows up through puberty and how humans reproduce.

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~30 min

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🔬 Science

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Teens

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What you’ll learn

The Human SkeletonName the major bones, describe the four jobs of the skeleton, and explain why bones are living tissue.The adult skeleton's 206 bones give the body shape, protect organs like the brain and heart, work with muscles to allow movement, and make blood cells in their marrow. Bones are living tissue with blood vessels and the ability to heal.
Growing Up: PubertyDescribe puberty as a normal stage of change and explain the role of hormones.Puberty is the natural stage, usually between ages 8 and 14, when the body changes from a child's to an adult's. The changes are gradual and guided by hormones, chemical messengers such as testosterone and oestrogen carried in the blood.
How Humans ReproduceExplain human reproduction from fertilisation to birth in a factual, respectful way.Humans reproduce sexually: a male sex cell (sperm) joins a female sex cell (egg) at fertilisation to form one cell. It divides and grows into an embryo and fetus in the womb, nourished through the placenta, and is born after about nine months.

Questions this course answers

Which part of the skeleton protects the brain?

The skull is the bony case that protects the brain.

Why do we say bones are living tissue?

Bones are alive, healing and producing blood cells in their marrow.

What is puberty?

Puberty is the natural change from child to adult.

What are hormones?

Hormones are chemical messengers that guide the body's changes.

What is fertilisation?

Fertilisation is the joining of a sperm and an egg.

Roughly how long does a human pregnancy last?

A human pregnancy lasts about nine months.

Grounded in trusted sources

BBC Bitesize
Britannica
KidsHealth (Nemours)
NHS
Royal Society of Biology

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