BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: The Heart Is a Pump
In this lesson plan learners will understand the concept of circulation beginning at the heart, a complex pump that provides the initial force for blood flow through the body. Students will learn about the internal structures of the...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: Examining the Heart
In this instructional activity, students will examine sheep or chicken hearts to learn about heart structure and the flow of blood through the heart.
WebMD
Web Md: How a Health Professional Measures Blood Pressure
This resource lists the steps a health professional usually follows in measuring blood pressure. Also listed are factors that may cause a measurement to be inaccurate.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Blood Pressure
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The health of your whole body depends on the good health of your cardiovascular system. One measure of the health of your cardiovascular system is blood pressure....
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Your Living Blood: It's Alive!
How does blood supply your body with the nourishment it needs? This site focuses on systemic circulation. Learn more about this fascinating part of your body when you check out this resource.
Healthline Media
Medical News Today: Articles: Hypertension: What Is High Blood Pressure?
Learn about high blood pressure, its causes, symptoms, and treatment. Also learn how blood pressure is measured and controlled.
Texas A&M University
Organ Systems: Story Time: William Harvey
William Harvey, doctor during the Age of Enlightenment, challenged mainstream understanding of the heart and the circulation of blood. Read about his early education and his scientific inquiry.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: How the Circulatory System of a Pig Works
Describes the parts of a pig's circulatory system and how its blood circulates. Circulation in a pig fetus is also described as it has differences.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: The Circulatory System of Fish
Describes the anatomy of a fish's circulatory system and how the blood circulates in a fish.
BiologyWise
Biology Wise: Circulatory System of a Rat
Describes the parts of a rat's circulatory system and how the blood circulates in a rat.
Open Curriculum
Open Curriculum: Circulatory System
Detailed information about the many functions and components of the cardiovascular system. Also looks at the lymphatic system and cardiovascular disease.
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Cardiovascular System
Self-guided learning activity where students learn about the structure and function of the human cardiovascular system. There is a short quiz at the end of the lesson to check for understanding.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Anatomy of the Human Circulatory System
This site is produced by John W. Kimball, a retired biology teacher who wrote the textbook that these pages came from. The excerpt explains the different parts of the circulation system and how they function. Includes great pictures!
Earth Life
Earth Life: A Bird's Heart and Blood
A very good site about the circulatory system of a bird. It is reader friendly, and includes a fair amount of information. Good diagram of the circulatory system.
Museum of Science
Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: What Goes Around
An activity where students take on the roles of parts of the circulatory system, and simulate the transport of nutrients, oxygen, and carbon dioxide through the blood stream.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Circulatory System
An animated video, with an accompanying quiz, explains how the circulatory system works.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Cellular Respiration and Transport
The circulatory system transports substances between the exchange surface and cells. It delivers oxygen and glucose to the tissues for respiration, which is the release of energy to cells.
PBS
Nova Online: Troubled Hearts
This site contains pictures of hearts that have some type of problem such as narrowing of the arteries and muscle damage from a heart attack. There is also a terrific picture of the coronary artery system that supplies the heart.
Famous Scientists
Famous Scientists: William Harvey
Find out how William Harvey was the first known to describe completely the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Cardiovascular System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Your cardiovascular system has many jobs. At times the cardiovascular system can work like a pump, a heating system, or even a postal carrier. To do these tasks,...
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: It Begins With the Heart
In this lesson, students can learn basic information about the human heart, including its role in circulation, and its external appearance.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: From the Heart
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]
Other
Unitarian Dictionary: Michael Servetus Biography
A detailed biography on the life of Unitarian Michael Servetus. Discusses his childhood, his rejection of the doctrine of original sin, his death at the hands of the Reform Protestants in Geneva and their pastor, John Calvin, and also...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: The Lungs
Students learn the overall function of the human lungs, and then summarize the blood flow pattern associated with the lungs.
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