Why Do Your BIceps Bulge?

Many people know on some vague level that muscles are responsible for the body’s movement… but what exactly do the muscles do?  As your child discovered this week:  the muscles work by pulling on bones at the joints. The muscles do this via strings called tendons. Your child created a paper model of a finger based on their understanding of this process.

Any visit to the grocery store is an opportunity for you and your child to observe exactly what muscle looks like! The meat on display at the grocery store--whether chicken, fish, pork, or beef--is the muscles of those animals.