NCERT Book Class 6 Science Chapter 5 Body Movements

5 Body Movements

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it absolutely still. Observe the Table 5.1 How do animals move
movements taking place in your from place to place?
body. You must be blinking your
Body part used
eyes, time to time. Observe the for moving How does
Animal from place to t he animal
movements in your body as you move?
place
breathe. There are so many movements
that happen in our bodies. Cow Legs Walk
When you are writing in your Humans
notebook which part of the body are you
Snake Whole body Slither
moving? Or, when you turn and look at
your friend? Different parts of your body Bird
move while you remain at the same Insect
place, in these examples. You also move
from one place to another — you get up Fish
and go to your teacher or to the school
compound, or go home after school. You
walk, run, skip, jump and move from Walk, run, fly, jump, creep, crawl,
place to place. slither and swim – these are only a few
Let us see how animals move from of the ways in which animals move from
place to place by filling up Table 5.1, one place to another. Why are there so
after discussing with our friends, many differences in the way that
teachers and parents. animals move from place to place? Why
is it that many animals walk while a
snake slithers or crawls and a fish
swims?
Boojho wonders about movements
in plants. He knows they do not
5.1 HUMAN BODY AND ITS MOVEMENTS
move from place to place, but, do Let us look closely at some of our own
they show any other kind of movements to begin with, before looking
movements? at all these varieties of movements in
animals.
Do you enjoy doing physical exercise
at school? How do you move your hands
and legs while doing different exercises?

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