#bearcards

Even though I am only designing 3 of the cards, I thought it would be a good idea to work out what body parts the other cards in the set would be for. This has been a good idea as it has allowed me to make sure that there are enough body parts that children would be interested enough in learning about.

Taste Buds

Lips

Nostrils

Finger

Thumb

Nail

Knuckle

Joints

Calf

Heel

Foot 

Toe

Heart

Lungs

Veins

Blood

Liver

Kidneys

Throat

Brain

Stomach

Bones/Skeleton

Ribs

Skin

Hair

Teeth

Muscles

Salivary Glands

Glands

Oesophagus

Small Intestine

Large Intestine

Gallbladder

Pancreas

Larynx

Trachea

Bronchi

Lungs

Diaphragm 

Bladder

Urethra 

Pituitary Gland

Thyroid Gland

Adrenal Gland

Arteries

Capillaries

Lymph Node

Bone Marrow

Spleen

Tonsils

Spinal Cord

Nerves

Iris

Retina

Eardrum

Mammary Glands

Eyes

Nose

Mouth

I have decided to make a collection of all the facts I am finding during my research process that I feel that kids of the target audience will find interesting. I  then plan to go through and pick out the ones that I feel are the best, as well as keeping in mind the ones that I will best be able to illustrate in a creative and eye catching way.

Your feet have half a million sweat glands that produce over a pint of fluid everyday.

You are about 1 cm shorter at night because the cartilage between your bones is compressed throughout the day.

If you laid all of your blood vessels end to end they would stretch 60,000 miles, or around the world nearly two and a half times.

During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill two swimming pools.

After eating too much, your hearing is less sharp.

Babies can only see black and white when they are born.

You knew that 75% of your body is water, but did you know that 80% of your brain is water?

A full bladder is roughly the size of a softball.

Your teeth start growing 6 months before you are born.

Most babies are born with blue eyes. Exposure to ultraviolet light (the sun) and melanin are what eventually bring out their true colour.

Everyone has a unique smell, unique fingerprint and unique tongue print.

Your eyes remain the same size after birth but your nose and ears never stop growing.

Your skeleton keeps renewing itself every ten years which means that every ten years you get a new skeleton.

Sweat doesn’t smell bad. A stinky “body odour” is caused when the skin bacteria feed on sweat. Their waste products are what smell bad!

Just one drop of blood contains about 10,000 while blood cells and 250,000 platelets.

You’re used to seeing bugs in your garden, but how about on your plate? Nutritious, edible insects including grasshoppers, beetles, wasps, worms, cicadas, and caterpillars are paced with vitamins and minerals and are eaten by people around the globe! Visiting China or Thailand? Stop for a deep-fried cicada on a stick!

The Brain is a very wrinkly organ! If you spread it out, your brain would be about the size of a pillowcase. By the time you are six years old, your brain is already 90 percent of the size it will be when you are an adult.

Like dead skin cells, your hair and nails are made of keratin. Keratin forms tough body parts in other animals, too. It’s found in wool, fur, feathers, claws, beaks, hooves, horns, porcupine quills, and turtle shells.

About 10,000 human cells can fit on the head of a pin.

Your salivary glands produce two to six cups of (0.5-1.5 litres) of saliva a day.

On a rollercoaster, the funny feeling you get is your insides actually moving! When a coaster comes over its crest, slows for a second for added torture, and then plummets downward, the seat belt keeps your rear in place, but some loosely connected internal organs—like your stomach and intestines—get a little “air time.” You’re not damaging your innards by riding even the craziest of coasters (everything returns to its proper place), but your nerves detect the movement, which registers as though your stomach has jumped into your throat.

How come you can wake up in the night to wee but not poo? Your bladder can only stretch to a certain size before it has to go, where-as the muscles in your colon that push out waste are in rhythm with when you’re sleeping.

Why do we have fingerprints? having fingerprints helps to make our skin more stretchy, preventing cuts and blisters. Scientists have also said they can improve our sense of touch.

What makes my tummy rumble? It can be the sound of your digestive juices churning and stomach muscles contracting as they get prepped for food.

Why does armpit sweat smell worse than anywhere else? Your body has two kinds of sweat glands. Most of those on your arms and legs secrete a mix of water and salt. But the glands in your armpits (as well as your groin) release an oily substance, which bacteria love. It’s actually the bacteria eating the oil that releases the telltale stench.

Your pet isn't the only one in the house with a shedding problem. Humans shed about 600,000 particles of skin every hour. That works out to about 1.5 pounds each year, so the average person will lose around 105 pounds of skin by age 70.

Your nose is not as sensitive as a dog's, but it can remember 50,000 different scents.

An adult human being is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms.

Your body has enough iron in it to make a metal nail 3 inches long.

We all have tiny mites living in our eyelashes.

Similar to fingerprints, everyone also has a Unique Tongue Print.

When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.

The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colours.

The human body produces about a litre (0.26 gal) of mucus per day.

There're more bacteria in your mouth than there are people in the world.

Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a truck for 20 miles (32 km).

Most of the dust underneath your bed is actually your own dead skin.

In a lifetime, your brain's long-term memory can hold as many as 1 quadrillion (1 million billion) separate bits of information.

Your brain keeps developing until your late 40s.

When you take one step, you are using up to 200 muscles.