Three Types of Muscle
5th grade muscular system worksheet: complete a chart on skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle, then sort eight examples by muscle type. Answer key included.
5th Grade Muscular System Worksheets
5th grade muscular system worksheets: skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle, how muscles pull in pairs, labeling major muscles, a pulse and exercise investigation and a check.
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Label the Major Muscles
5th grade label the major muscles worksheet: name eight muscles on front and back body views, then match each to its action. Answer key included.
Muscles Work in Pairs
5th grade muscles work in pairs worksheet: biceps and triceps contract or relax in two arm diagrams, a tendon paragraph and leg muscle pairs. Answer key.
Exercise and Muscles Investigation
5th grade muscle fatigue investigation: squeeze a ball or clothespin in four 30-second rounds, record counts, graph them and explain why muscles tire.
How Muscles Grow Stronger Reading
5th grade reading on how muscles grow stronger: fibers, protein, rest and the heart. Nine questions with quotes and evidence. Answer key included.
Muscular System Check
5th grade muscular system check: five multiple-choice questions, match three muscle types and explain biceps and triceps. Answer key included.
Curriculum objectives covered
“Compare where skeletal, smooth and cardiac muscle are found and what each one does.”
“Tell voluntary muscle actions from involuntary ones.”
“Name the major muscles of the human body and say where each one is.”
“Match major muscles to the movements they produce.”
“Explain that muscles can only pull, so skeletal muscles work in pairs.”
“Describe which muscle of a pair contracts and which relaxes during a movement.”
“Name muscle pairs in the leg and trunk.”
“Collect data in a table and show it on a bar graph.”
“Explain that muscles tire when they work without rest and name what helps them recover.”
RI.5.1
“Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.”
“Recall the main job of the muscular system and that tendons join muscles to bones.”
“Tell voluntary from involuntary muscles and name the three muscle types.”
“Explain that the biceps and triceps work as a pair.”
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