How Your Body Works covers these concepts: • bodies change as they grow older • the body has external and internal parts • the brain controls the body and is the center of thinking • we use five senses to find out about our world • the body has lungs for breathing • the body digests food for energy • the heart pumps blood throughout the body • bones support and help move the body, muscles help the body move. A variety of engaging activities present the concepts in ways that students can understand. Each concept presented includes: • teacher directions for lessons • reproducible resource pages such as sets of picture cards, minibooks, and lab sheets to record the results of hands-on investigations