Working together using this wiki
Think of this wiki as a shared online whiteboard. Your entire group can share information using this wiki, making your research accessible to everyone. Play around with this wiki: Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text.
Group members
- Andrew (Smooth Muscles)
- Jared (Skeletal Muscles)
- Justin (Cardiac Muscles)
- Kenny (Cardiac Muscles)
Sources
- http://health.howstuffworks.com/muscle.htm
- www.brainpop.com
- http://www3.umdnj.edu/histsweb/lab6/cardiacmuscle/cmindex.html
- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080217100139AAn0BMY
- http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080216231352AAsOOSf
- http://www.hon.ch/HONselect/Selection/A02.633.html
- http://www.flashmavi.com/weight_training_skeletal_muscle_system_of_the_human_body.shtml
- http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/muscles.html
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Drafts
Keep your drafts here so you can refer to earlier versions.
Draft 1
Draft 2
Muscle Picture
Intro:
There are three types of muscles in the human body. There are cardiac muscles, skeletal muscles, and smooth muscles. Muscles help you move, exercise, and go about your daily life. Did you know that without muscles your guts will start sagging and lungs from pounding? Without muscles you will be weak and your body heat will drop tremendously. There are 656 to 850 muscles in the human body.
Muscles In general:
Sometimes your muscles have a spasm. That means they get tight. When you pull a muscle that means that you are tearing the fibers inside the muscles. The cause of this is from not stretching before you exercise. Eating bananas prevent pulling muscles because they have potassium. Muscles are just bundles of cells, fibers, and muscle tissue. With out muscles you wouldn't be able to move or do any thing then you would die witch is bad.
Skeletal Muscles:
Did you know that skeletal muscles make up %50 of your body? You have about 640 skeletal muscles in your body. Skeletal muscles are voluntary muscles that you can flex and cautiously control. That heart is an involuntary muscle, which means you have no control over it. Muscles are arranged in layers over the bone. Skeletal muscles have an abundant supply of blood vessels and nerves. A skeletal muscle links two bones across its connecting joint. Some examples are:
Smooth muscles
Did you know Smooth muscles are found in the hollow parts of your body? In this paragraph you will learn all about what smooth muscles are and, how they work. Smooth muscles include stomach, intestines, blood vessels and the bladder. Smooth muscles are also arranged in layers. Smooth muscles are under the control of autonomic nervous system. Your abdominal muscles are your stomach muscles. Your strongest muscles in your body are your body is a smooth muscle. The strongest of your muscles are masseters located on each side of your mouth. The fibers in smooth muscles are running in a different direction then each other. In fact smooth muscles are the most common muscles. Most people don’t know there are three types of muscles. They are smooth muscles, skeletal muscles and cardiac muscles. If you remember all of that you will know all you need to know about smooth muscles. Those are facts about smooth muscles.
CARDIAC MUSCLES
The cardiac muscle is one of the three types of muscles in the human body. The cardiac muscle cells are long strips. Did you know that the heart beats non-stop 100,000 times a day? This happens because of cardiac muscles. In the human body cardiac muscles contract automatically to squeeze the walls of the heart inward. This is an interesting fact. The fact is cardiac muscles never get tired or stop until you die. That could be a very long time depending on the person. Cardiac muscles do not fatigue. The meaning of fatigue is weariness from bodily or mental exertion. Did you know that cardiac muscles are very like skeletal muscles, but they have certain features? That is some information about the CARDIAC MUSCLES!
Conclusion:
Did you learn any information about muscles? We know we did. If you really enjoyed learning about the muscular system and you want to learn more visit the websites that we gave you. They have a lot of information. You can even do Google searches to find information too. Now if you are playing sports or having fun and you feel your heart pumping really fast you know why that happens. Your heart is pumping blood throughout your body by using your muscles. Now you know that stretching is really important before you play, run, or exercise. If you pull a muscle it will really hurt. If you stretch before you play you won’t pull a muscle.
VOCBULARY:
1. Autonomic: Of or pertaining to the autonomic nervous system.
2. Masseters: A thick muscle in the cheek that closes the jaws during chewing.
3. Fatigue: weariness from bodily or mental exertion
4. Spasm: a sudden uncontrollable jerking of the muscles
5. Sagging: to hang down unevenly; droop
6. Muscles: Contractile tissue that produces movement in animals.
7. Cardiac Muscles: The Heart
Comments (54)
Anonymous said
at 10:03 am on Jun 11, 2008
Hi first comment
This is how we can talk to each other.
Anonymous said
at 10:04 am on Jun 11, 2008
Wat should we do
Anonymous said
at 10:04 am on Jun 11, 2008
theres no intro
Anonymous said
at 10:04 am on Jun 11, 2008
should we do vocab
Anonymous said
at 10:05 am on Jun 11, 2008
whos doing the intro
Anonymous said
at 10:05 am on Jun 11, 2008
Jared- Skeletal, and Intro, Kenny and Justin- Cardiac, and Closing, Andrew- Smooth and Muscles in general.
Anonymous said
at 10:05 am on Jun 11, 2008
who is donig the vocab
Anonymous said
at 10:06 am on Jun 11, 2008
should we finish vocab
Anonymous said
at 10:06 am on Jun 11, 2008
kenny do the vocab
Anonymous said
at 10:07 am on Jun 11, 2008
ill start donig muscles in genaral now
Anonymous said
at 10:10 am on Jun 11, 2008
Everything is finished except for the Vocab (Kenny and Justin) and muscles in general (Andrew). We have a good pace and are ahead of the other groups, let's keep it that way. Good Job guys!
Anonymous said
at 10:11 am on Jun 11, 2008
Is this what spaz means?
A grotesquely awkward person
Anonymous said
at 10:12 am on Jun 11, 2008
If you think or see any vocab words tell us Justin and Kenny
Anonymous said
at 10:12 am on Jun 11, 2008
No, look at the next definition.
Anonymous said
at 10:13 am on Jun 11, 2008
an eccentric person.
Anonymous said
at 10:13 am on Jun 11, 2008
No, keep going.
Anonymous said
at 10:14 am on Jun 11, 2008
Those are the only two
Anonymous said
at 10:14 am on Jun 11, 2008
Look under spazm.
Anonymous said
at 10:14 am on Jun 11, 2008
Spasm.
Anonymous said
at 10:15 am on Jun 11, 2008
A jerk in your body.
Anonymous said
at 10:15 am on Jun 11, 2008
Did you see what I said about the vocab words
Anonymous said
at 10:15 am on Jun 11, 2008
No
Anonymous said
at 10:16 am on Jun 11, 2008
i need more general info on muscles
Anonymous said
at 10:16 am on Jun 11, 2008
It is the last one on the top
Anonymous said
at 10:17 am on Jun 11, 2008
andrew ask jared and
Anonymous said
at 10:17 am on Jun 11, 2008
Sagging is a vocab word, you might already have it.
Anonymous said
at 10:18 am on Jun 11, 2008
Muscles
Definition: Contractile tissue that produces movement in animals.
Anonymous said
at 10:20 am on Jun 11, 2008
Andrew we can't do it because it is about animals
Anonymous said
at 10:21 am on Jun 11, 2008
but we are animals and we are a species of animal
Anonymous said
at 10:21 am on Jun 11, 2008
Hey but we do not have all of the same things in our body
Anonymous said
at 10:21 am on Jun 11, 2008
or just put humans and animals
Anonymous said
at 12:59 pm on Jun 11, 2008
guys me and Justin are going to keep looking at vocab
Anonymous said
at 12:59 pm on Jun 11, 2008
kk
Anonymous said
at 1:00 pm on Jun 11, 2008
Do you have anymore vocab words
Anonymous said
at 1:00 pm on Jun 11, 2008
ya
Anonymous said
at 1:01 pm on Jun 11, 2008
Muscles Definition: Contractile tissue that produces movement in animals.
Anonymous said
at 1:02 pm on Jun 11, 2008
we got six vocab words but if you find any more words tell us so we can add them
Anonymous said
at 1:03 pm on Jun 11, 2008
kk
Anonymous said
at 1:05 pm on Jun 11, 2008
Guys add in General Muscles that there are 600 muscles in your body
Anonymous said
at 1:05 pm on Jun 11, 2008
ok
Anonymous said
at 1:06 pm on Jun 11, 2008
Here is a good web-site
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/muscles.html
Anonymous said
at 1:08 pm on Jun 11, 2008
hey guys did you find a diagram
Anonymous said
at 1:12 pm on Jun 11, 2008
Guys I found a diagram for skeletal muscles
Anonymous said
at 1:13 pm on Jun 11, 2008
Guy's what should Justin and I do know that we are done with our assignments
Anonymous said
at 1:13 pm on Jun 11, 2008
We are making new pages, so try and work on those.
Anonymous said
at 1:28 pm on Jun 11, 2008
WHAT SHOULD WE DO! WE CAN'T GET ON THE NEW PAGE
Anonymous said
at 3:13 pm on Jun 11, 2008
Calm down Kenny, Andrew was on.
Anonymous said
at 11:40 am on Jun 19, 2008
how much more do we have to do
Anonymous said
at 11:41 am on Jun 19, 2008
put your diagram on Muscle pictures
Anonymous said
at 11:42 am on Jun 19, 2008
me too?
Anonymous said
at 11:56 am on Jun 19, 2008
What should we do now Jared since you are putting the pictures up? Revise the site?
Anonymous said
at 11:59 am on Jun 19, 2008
Jarded I found an AWSOME DIAGRAM
Anonymous said
at 11:59 am on Jun 19, 2008
sure, I already found a picture of a cardiac muscle cell, the job that you were supposed to do, so you should be thankful.
Anonymous said
at 8:45 am on Jun 20, 2008
ANDREW WE HAVE TO GET ON!!!!!!!!!!!!
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