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This week's video seminar
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Scroll down for this week's tasks.
Learning intentions
State the function of three major muscle groups.
Describe how to investigate the strength of different muscles.
Explain how antagonistic muscle produces movement around a joint.
Review your understanding of the skeletal and muscular system topic.
Total study time this week: 4 hours
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The Skeletal and Muscular System Week 2
We are continuing the topic on the Skeletal and Muscular System which you may have looked into at primary school or during the first term.
Watch the webinar above.
Complete all the tasks outlined below.
You can do your work on paper, in a notebook, on PowerPoint, or a word document. Please keep your work safe till we return to school.
You would normally have four hours of science lesson in school so the tasks have been split into chunks to help you manage your time. You can do them all at once or in separate chunks.
Lesson 1: What is the function of muscles?
Do your daily goal on Tassomai. (15 minutes)
Watch the video found here. (5 minutes)
Answer the following questions in full sentences. (10 minutes)
Name the three types of muscle and state where each are found.
What is the function of the three types of muscle?
Watch the video found here. During the video write down a list of the names of muscles you hear. (5 minutes)
Label the diagram of the muscles found at the bottom of the page. Use your list of names of muscles from Task 4 to label the diagram. The image can also be downloaded here if you want to print it. (15 minutes)
Complete the quiz found here. (10 minutes)
Lesson 2: How can you investigate the strength of different muscles?
Do your daily goal on Tassomai. (15 minutes)
Carry out a practical to investigate the strength of muscles by following the instructions in the booklet found here. During the practical answer the questions in the booklet. (30 minutes)
Research how athletes monitor their muscle strength to get ready to compete. Use this research to make an information poster to be displayed in a gym. (15 minutes) You must include:
How athletes monitor their muscle strength?
What are the benefits to this?
What are the negatives to this?
Lesson 3: How do antagonistic muscles help us to move?
Do your daily goal on Tassomai. (15 minutes)
Read the web page found here and watch the video and the bottom of the page. (10 minutes)
Make a storyboard for how the biceps and triceps cause your arm to bend at the elbow. Use the template at the bottom of the page. You must use the following key words in your description and labels on your diagrams; bicep, tripcep, contract, relax (20 minutes)
Use the instructions found here to make your own antagnostic muscles model. (15 minutes)
Lesson 4: Revision
Do your daily goal on Tassomai. (15 minutes)
Use the knowledge organiser here and your work from the previous lessons in this topic to produce a poster for the Skeletal and Muscular System topic. (35 minutes) Your poster must include the information to answer the following questions:
What is the structure of the human skeleton?
What is the function of the human skeleton?
How do joints help the skeleton to move?
What is the role of tendons?
What is the function of muscles?
How can you investigate the strength of different muscles?
How do antagonistic muscles help us to move?
Complete the quiz found here. (10 minutes)
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