14 Fun Facts About Your Skin: Educational Version

By Caitlind L. Alexander

You have some on you right now. It covers your entire body! It’s skin. You’ve lived with this stuff all your life, but how much do you really know about the skin that covers your body? Here are some fun facts that you may not know!
Why does your skin get wrinkled when it stays in the water too long?
How many square feet of skin does the average adult have?
How much does skin weigh?
What are the millions of holes in your skin for?
How many sweat glands do you have in each square inch (2.5 cm) of skin?

Find out more about your skin and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts.
Ages 8 and up.
All measurement in American and Metric

The Educational Version has activities that meet Common Core Curriculum Standards.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: LearningIsland.com
• Release date: Sep 20, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301386666

Caitlind L. Alexander

Caitlind Alexander is the author of over 60 books for children, including the Jamie and Kendall Broderick Mystery series, the 14 Fun Facts and 101 Fun Facts series, the Wonderful World of Animals Series, and the Miss Jones series.She lives in California where she loves to visit historic places and learn about new things. She also loves to travel and has been all over the world.

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14 FUN FACTS ABOUT

YOUR SKIN

by Caitlind L. Alexander

A LearningIsland.com

15-Minute book

We have used many sources to research these facts and they are accurate at time of publishing. The more we explore the wonders of our world, the more information we are discovering.

Editor: Jennifer Robinson

Title page picture by Slushpup

Cover picture by Frank Kovalchek

Smashwords Edition

(c) Copyright 2006 Caitlind Alexander. All rights reserved.

Published by LearningIsland.com.

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14 Fun Facts About Your Skin / Caitlind L. Alexander

Summary: A brief look at human skin and how it works.

1. Skin. Juvenile Literature. 2. Human Body. Juvenile Literature. 3. Anatomy and Physiology. Juvenile Literature.

Created in USA

Reading Level: 4.4

Words: 1603

Ages 8 and up.

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About the Author

You have some on you right now. It covers your entire body! It’s skin. You’ve lived with this stuff all your life, but how much do you really know about the skin that covers your body? Here are some fun facts that you may not know!

(Mahalie)

Fact 1: Skin will stretch out, but it won’t always shrink back.

The funny thing about skin is that it stretches. It will stretch out more and more, no matter how