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Heart Mobiles In Action

For Teachers 10th - Higher Ed
Students design a mobile or wall hanging that reviews the circulatory system. In this circulatory system lesson plan, students work in small groups to identify the structures of the heart, and create a model in the form of a two or three...
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Heart of Darkness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students interpret the resolution of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. In this literature lesson, students discuss the ending of the novella and Conrad's intentions in ending it the way he did. Students then write alternative endings...
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Straight from the Heart

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students explore the heart and its functions. In this lesson about the heart, students use observation to understand the heart. Students construct a heart model, watch the vibration of their pulse, and listen to a heartbeat with a...
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Artificial Heart Technology

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students discover the basics of the human heart and how it functions. They examine the whole circulatory system and how an electric heart would work inside the human body. They can choose to perform their own surgery by following...
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The Amazing Heart

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students examine human blood flow by comparing the pulse of athletes.  In this human body activity, students discover the equation for finding the cardiac output from a human heart.  Students identify heart rates of accomplished athletes...
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Sheep Heart Dissection

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine a sheep heart. In this biology lesson plan, 5th graders dissect a sheep heart to identify the parts of a heart including the aorta, valve, septum, and ventricle.
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District Wide Jump Rope For Heart

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in a district American Heart Association Jump Rope event. They meet students in their age from other schools in a social setting. Learners come to the High School gym on a Saturday morning in February. They are...
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Origin of the Purple Heart

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Learners research the origin of the Purple Heart. In this writing lesson students research personal stories of friends or family who have received the Purple Heart. Learners then design their own armed forces award complete with an essay...
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The Multimedia Heart

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders research the different aspects of the human heart. Groups work through steps to create a multimedia slide presentation. The presentation must follow pre-set criteria.
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this "The Tell-Tale Heart" worksheet, students write an essay about how Edgar Allan Poe keeps the reader in suspense. The worksheet helps students construct the essay through eleven different scaffolding steps.
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Kids Yoga Stories

Valentine's Day - LOVE

For Teachers K - 3rd
Open your heart with a refreshing yoga session designed for Valentine's Day. With visual cues of hearts and other festive decorations, participants begin a series of yoga poses designed to open their heart chakras and to reflect on the...
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Heart Smart in a Heart Beat

For Teachers 5th - 7th
As an introductory activity, young statisticians measure their heart rate at rest and after exercise and compute the mean and median, and create a box & whisker plot.  This is followed by watching a video (that no longer seems to...
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Quest for the Broken Heart

For Teachers K - 12th
Students examine the ways to keep their heart healthy. After making a huge model of the heart, they put their own message to share with others about their hearts. To end the lesson, they write clues for their classmates to find the model...
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A Message From Your Heart

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore their heart and how the blood flows through the circulation system.
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My Beating Heart

For Teachers K
Students watch a video over the functions of the heart. They follow along on a website to see how the heart pumps blood.
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The Heart

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners explore the structures in the heart and follow the path of blood through the heart and lung. They copy the Fill-in-the blank notes from the colored folders that are located at the stations throught the room. Students are...
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Interactive Heart Rate Worksheet

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students perform various cardiovascular activities, then complete a worksheet that records their target heart rate.
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The Heart of the Matter

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the heart and the circulatory system. They practice taking their pulse. They create a model of blood cells and squeeze tennis balls to demonstrate just how hard the heart muscle works.
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Where is Your Heart? What Does it Do?

For Teachers K
Students identify size and general location of human heart, identify heart muscle, describe, in general terms, heart's basic function of pumping blood throughout body, and complete "Where is Your Heart" and "What Does My Heart Look...
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The Functions of the Heart

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the function of the human heart. In this heart anatomy lesson, students participate in activities offered at an Internet website to discover the characteristics and jobs of the parts of the human heart.
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The Beat of Your Heart

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students explore different applications involving their own heart.  In this illumination activity students measure their fists and relate it to the dimensions of their hearts. 
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Listen To Your Heart Beat

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students listen to their heart beats. In this biology lesson plan, students explore pulse rates and factors that cause them to change. Students also construct both a graph to show variation in pulse rates and a simple stethoscope.
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Classroom Heart Rates

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Young scholars check and record heart-rates of other classmates. They compare and design questions to explain the differences in their findings. Possible explanations might include: the effects of culture, lifestyles, age and gender on...
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The Heart

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore the parts of the heart and how blood travels throughout the body. They conduct a simple simulation to demonstrate the path that blood takes through the body and the functions it performs.

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