7th+Grade+Health

__**Body Systems**__ || Notes || [] Advanced Matching Game: [] || __**-The Skeletal System-**__ The skeleton is the support structure of the body. Muscles and ligaments work together and interconnect enabling the movement of the bones.Brittle bones will become an increasing problem as we grow older. Therefore, finding ways to maintain and support bone health will become more important. || || @http://www.purposegames.com/game/431/info Advanced Matching Game: [] || **__- The Muscular System-__** As muscles work, their sole function of the muscle tissue is to contract or shorten. As it contracts, it performs a series of functions: movement, maintains posture, stabilizes joints, and generates heat. When muscles are not contracting they return to normal length, or extend (extension).However, not all muscles are the same. || || Labeling Game: [] || **__-The Digestive System-__** When you eat lunch, you are providing an energy source for your body. The food and drink must be changed into smaller molecules of nutrients to be absorbed into the blood and carried to cells throughout the body. The process of digestion is one by which food and drink become broken down into smaller parts. We then take these broken down parts through the blood so that the body can use them to build cells, nourish cells, and provide energy. || || [] || **__-The Circulatory System-__** There is a system in the body that delivers nutrients to cells, essential materials, and also removes waste products from the cells. This system consists of the blood, heart,and blood vessels that circulates blood throughout the body. || ||
 * Challenges || __**7th Grade Health**__
 * [[image:http://www.purposegames.com/pg-gameimages/bigthumb/0/910.gif caption="Skeletal System"]]Matching Game:
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 * [[image:http://www.purposegames.com/pg-gameimages/bigthumb/17/17937.gif caption="Digestion locations"]]
 * Labeling the Heart Game:
 * || __**-The Reproductive System-**__

This is a system of male and reproductive organs which allow humans to reproduce and bear live offspring. This is a time of change that will cause both physical, mental, and emotional change in both makes and females. || || Human Immuno Deficiency virus or HIV, and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS is a disease that has become a dangerous health problem. Although there is medication and treatment to help slow down the spread of the virus when it enters one's body; there is still no cure yet for HIV or AIDS. These virus attack a person's immune system affecting many T-cells and B-cells. We will learn in this chapter the differences between HIV and AIDS. We will discuss how the virus harms the body and what it is destroying. We will also learn risk factors that could spread the virus, how the virus is not spread, as well as the symptoms and harms it takes on a person's body. || ||
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