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E-Adventure into the Human Body

Your body is a wonderful machine that you must take care of every day. You need food and water to give you energy and keep you going strong. You have another type of energy in your body as well - electricity!

Your heart has a tiny bit of a special type of electricity that keeps it beating regularly. Sometimes, when people have problems with their hearts, they need a certain miniature battery called a pacemaker. This pacemaker puts out small shocks of electricity to the heart to make it beat at a certain speed. It's amazing what batteries can do!

Your brain has a little bit of electricity in it, too. This electricity helps your ideas jump around from brain cell to brain cell. You've probably got enough electricity skipping around in your brain to light a 15 or 20 watt bulb, about like the one used in your refrigerator. Now you can really say you have a "bright idea"!