🖐️ Largest Organ: Your Skin
3rd Grade 🏆 World Records
Your skin is the biggest organ of your body. On a grown-up it covers about 20 square feet.
A protective coat
Skin keeps germs out, holds water in and helps control your body temperature by sweating.
Always new
You shed tiny flakes of skin all day long, and your body makes new skin to replace it. Your outer skin renews itself about every month.
Quick quiz
What is your body’s largest organ?
What does sweating help with?
Skin keeps germs…