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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Heart Is a Pump

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Examining the Heart

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity, students will examine sheep or chicken hearts to learn about heart structure and the flow of blood through the heart.
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WebMD

Web Md: How a Health Professional Measures Blood Pressure

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Blood Pressure

For Students 6th - 8th
[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....
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The Franklin Institute

Franklin Institute Online: Your Living Blood: It's Alive!

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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Healthline Media

Medical News Today: Articles: Hypertension: What Is High Blood Pressure?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about high blood pressure, its causes, symptoms, and treatment. Also learn how blood pressure is measured and controlled.
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Texas A&M University

Organ Systems: Story Time: William Harvey

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: How the Circulatory System of a Pig Works

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: The Circulatory System of Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the anatomy of a fish's circulatory system and how the blood circulates in a fish.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Circulatory System of a Rat

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the parts of a rat's circulatory system and how the blood circulates in a rat.
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Open Curriculum

Open Curriculum: Circulatory System

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed information about the many functions and components of the cardiovascular system. Also looks at the lymphatic system and cardiovascular disease.
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National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health

Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Cardiovascular System

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Biology Pages

Kimball's Biology Pages: Anatomy of the Human Circulatory System

For Students 9th - 10th
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!
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Earth Life

Earth Life: A Bird's Heart and Blood

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: What Goes Around

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: The Human Body: Circulatory System

For Students 3rd - 6th
An animated video, with an accompanying quiz, explains how the circulatory system works.
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: Cellular Respiration and Transport

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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PBS

Nova Online: Troubled Hearts

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: William Harvey

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: Cardiovascular System

For Students 6th - 8th
[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,...
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: It Begins With the Heart

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson, students can learn basic information about the human heart, including its role in circulation, and its external appearance.
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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]
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Other

Unitarian Dictionary: Michael Servetus Biography

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: The Lungs

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn the overall function of the human lungs, and then summarize the blood flow pattern associated with the lungs.

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