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Can You Make a Muscle?

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Why are muscles important? Third graders study the different kinds and functions of muscles in the human body. After drawing arrows in an illustration to indicate where a muscle contraction would occur, they do their own experiment about the muscles in their body.

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the muscular system, human body systems

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human anatomy, human body, muscles, science experiment, science
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3rd - 4th
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