Download Mrs. Tautkus` Muscular System Webquest

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Muscular System Web Activity
START: http://www.ellingtonschools.org/emslibrary/ and click on science, then Human
Biology/Anatomy. Click on Muscular System Web Activity.
Go to http://kidshealth.org/kid/cancer_center/HTBW/muscles.html Read select parts
of the article to answer the questions.
1. How many muscles do we have?
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Describe how muscles are made and put together.
3. Describe what smooth muscles do and where they are in your body.
4. What type of muscle is found in your heart? How does it send blood throughout
your body?
5. Are all your skeletal muscles the same? Explain. Where are some of your
strongest skeletal muscles?
The next part of this activity focuses on muscle disorders
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Go to:
http://kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/bone/muscular_dystrophy.html
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6. What happens to a person who has Muscular Dystrophy (MD)? (symptoms)
7. What causes a person to get MD (what does the body not do correctly)?
8. Kids can get MD too. Between what ages are children likely to get the
Duchenne form of MD?
9. What symptoms would a child with Duchenne MD experience?
10. How is the Becker form of MD different from the Duchenne form?
 Go to: http://kidshealth.org/kid/grownup/conditions/als.html
8. What does ALS stand for and what is a common name for this disease?
9. What happens to a person with ALS?
10. When does the onset of ALS usually occur?