Beneath the Surface: Bones and Muscles
Discover how our muscles, bones and joints work together to help us move and find out how many bones there are in the human skeleton. Uncover what bones are made of, see what it takes to curl a bicep and learn how to keep your muscles healthy.
Recommended for:
- Ages – 8 to 13 Year Old’s
- Key Stage – KS2/KS3
- School Group – Year 4 to Year 9
Key Learning Points:
- Muscle cells, muscles and their specialist functions
- Bone cells, bones and their specialist functions
- Why we need muscles and skeletons
- Differences between human skeletons and other animals
- How muscles and bones work together (particularly for movement)
- Keeping our muscles and skeletons healthy through nutrition and exercise
Delivery
Available to book in our Neuron Pod and via Outreach
Neuron Pod
- Duration – 60 minutes
- Maximum group size – 50 people (Inc. adults)
Outreach
- Duration – 60 minutes
- Maximum group size – 70 people
Accessibility Guidance:
This show contains the following materials and stimuli.
- Costumes may be used for some demos (e.g. hats, aprons)
- Some demos involve physical movement
- Imagery of bones and muscles
- Imagery of animals (including snakes)
Information for Schools:
Key stage 2 Science curriculum links
Animals, including humans:
Year 3
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement
Year 5
• Describe the changes as humans develop to old age
Key stage 3 Science curriculum links
Cells and organisation:
• Cells as the fundamental unit of living organisms
• The hierarchical organisation of multicellular organisms: from cells to tissues to
organs to systems to organisms
• The structure and functions of the human skeleton, to include support, protection, movement and making blood cells
• The function of muscles and examples of antagonostic muscles
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