Unit Plan
Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: Your Heart and Lungs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn everything you've ever wanted to know about your heart and lungs as you journey through this human gallery. Animations, videos, lessons and links to new technologies are included.
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Remedy Health Media

Health Central: Heart Attack

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about a heart attack: definition, care, and treatment of a heart attack. Discusses various treatments: cardiac catheterization, angioplasty and bypass surgery.
Handout
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: The Heart and the Circulatory System

For Students 9th - 10th
Access Excellence offers detailed information, including diagrams and photos, about the anatomy of the heart and its central role in the circulatory system.
Handout
About Kids Health

About Kids Health: Congenital Heart Conditions Resource Center

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete reference tool that serves as an illustrated resource for presenting information on heart conditions. Content includes information on what they are, how the heart works, diagnosis, congenital defects, treatment, and long term...
Interactive
About Kids Health

About Kidshealth: The Normal Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the normal heart including how it works and the parts of the heart.
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Heart Rate and Exercise

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson learners will measure their heart rates after a variety of physical activities and compare the results with their resting heart rates, and with the heart rates of other students in their groups.
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Other

Health Talk Online: Heart Failure

For Students 9th - 10th
What is heart failure? What is the difference between a heart attack and heart failure? What role does stress in heart failure? These questions are answered by a doctor or a number of people who have actually experienced heart failure.
Interactive
Texas Heart Institute

Texas Heart Institute: Anatomy of the Human Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
Take an interactive tour of the human heart. Click on each part of the illustration to read more information about each structure.
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Other

Health Talk Online: Heart Attack

For Students 9th - 10th
Interviews were conducted with a number of people who have experienced a heart attack. These people talk about their heart attack , recovery, treatment, and life after the attack.
Handout
Texas Heart Institute

Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Pacemaker

For Students 9th - 10th
Article on arrhythmias with information about the heart's pacemaker.
Interactive
Science Museum of Minnesota

Science Museum of Minnesota: Habits of the Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
A guide to the heart, lungs, and circulatory system, and surgical procedures of the heart. Includes many digital images. Lesson plans with pictures and video instructions are very helpful.
Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: All About the Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kids Health features this diagrammatically color-illustrated article about the human heart.
Interactive
PurposeGames

Purpose Games: Label the Heart's Parts

For Students 9th - 10th
10 question learning game tests the players knowledge of the parts of the heart.
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Development of the Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
Study the embryological development of heart structures including the five regions of the fetal heart with these learning exercises.
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American Heart Association

American Heart Association: Be the Beat!

For Students 9th - 10th
The American Heart Association wants to help create a new generation of life savers - teens who know how to perform CPR and use AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) to save lives. Be The Beat! teaches teens about heart health and...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: From the Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment describes the basics of the circulatory system: how the heart pumps the blood that carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. [3:14]
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Kids Health: Heart and Circulatory System

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource, visitors can learn how the heart works and about the parts of the heart, the circulation of blood and heart health. The resource is also available in Spanish. Includes audio.
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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic:target Heart Rate Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Check your target heart rate for safe and effective exercise according to your age and health status in this interactive heart rate calculator
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad

For Students 9th - 10th
In the novel "Heart of Darkness," Marlow travels up the Congo River on behalf of a Belgian trading company. Once he is far upriver he encounters the mysterious Kurtz, a man who has set himself up as a god amongst the natives. Selected...
eBook
Planet eBooks

Planet E Book: Heart of Darkness [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is available here in PDF format. Heart of Darkness, which was first released in 1902, is 131 pages pages long.
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Other

Heart of Darkness

For Students 9th - 10th
Complete text of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness," the inspiration for the movie "Apocalypse Now." It has been edited only to the extent that the web publisher has separated each chapter into five sections to fit his "Chapter a Day,"...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Heart Rate and Body Position

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students can use a Heart Rate Monitor to measure their heart rate while sitting, lying down, and standing. They will analyze the data collected to determine the effect of body position on heart rate.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering the Heart: Heart Valves

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn how healthy human heart valves function and the different diseases that can affect heart valves. They also learn about devices and procedures that biomedical engineers have designed to help people with damaged or diseased...
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PBS

Nova: Electric Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
NOVA chronicles the story of a handful of brilliant surgeons and researchers who have pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades. The website contains a wonderful map of the human heart, amazing heart facts,...

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