This picture shows the

main organs of your body.

What are they called?

brain

lungsheart

liver stomach

small intestine

large intestine

skinLet’s have a

look at them in more detail.

It is a bit like your body’s own control centre.

It sends messages to the rest of your body.

Your brain needs oxygen from blood to work properly. Nearly 2,000 liters of blood

flow through the brain every day!

Your body needs oxygen to stay alive. When you

breathe in, oxygen enters

your lungs.

Here, the oxygen goes into your

bloods.

Your heart is like a pump but it is really a muscle. It's located a little to the left of the

middle of your chest.

The heart sends blood around your body. The

blood provides your body with the oxygen

and nutrients.

The liver is the largest organ inside your

body.

The liver helps the body eliminate toxins.

When you eat food passes into your stomach and

stays there for two-and-a-half to three hours.

Your stomach muscles squash the food until it is a creamy pulp.

Your stomach produces juices to

break down the food and kill germs you

may have swallowed.

Your intestines are in two parts.

The small intestine

The large intestine

Your small intestine is a narrow tube that is about 6 or 7 metres

long. When food leaves your stomach it comes here so that nutrients can

be absorbed back into the body.

Water and food that cannot be digested pass into your large intestine

and come out of your body as waste.

Your skin covers and protects everything inside your

body. Skin is always renewing itself . Every minute of the day we lose about 30,000 dead skin cells and get new skin cells.

There are many others, too many for us to look at now.

Let’s just look at a couple more that are important.

The kidneys are every bit as important as the

heart. You need at least one kidney to live!

Kidneys is to filter the waste out of the blood. The waste that is

collected combines with water to make urine.

The bladder

The bladder is a bag that collects the urine that leaves the kidneys.

It sends message to

your brain and you go to the

toilet.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at some of your body’s organs. Let’s see how many

you remember.brain

liver

lungsheart

stomach

large intestinesmall intestine

skin

kidneys

bladder