Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: Feeding a Hungry Heart
An intricate three-dimensional network of blood vessels nourishes the heart. Images like this can be used to make detailed comparisons of healthy and diseased hearts.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition Center: Vegetarian Diets
Learn about different types of vegetarian diets, the correlation between heart health and vegetarianism, and foods that allow vegetarians and vegans to get essential nutrients in their daily diets.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Superhumans and Bionics: A Heart of Titanium
Explore how to keep your heart healthy by exercising regularly, sticking to a low-fat diet and not smoking. Use mathematics to understand nutritional information about various foods.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Affairs of the Heart: A Healthy Diet
Explore the connection of saturated and unsaturated fats to arterial plaque buildup by building models of their molecular backbones. Examine your diet to determine whether you follow the guidelines suggested by the American Heart...
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Heart Health and Care
This is a simple guide from The Franklin Institute to keeping your heart healthy through proper exercise, a varied diet, and a clean lifestyle. Here, read about how to exercise and eat to avoid heart disease.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Physical Activity: Get Moving!
Learn about the health benefits of exercise. Content includes helpful tips on how to incorporate activity into your daily life and a link to the association's guidelines for improving heart health through fitness.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Smoking & Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease)
Learn the risks of smoking and how it causes cardiovascular disease. The article includes the risks and health effects of smoking, information on secondhand smoke, and resources and tools for kicking the habit.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Keeping Healthy
[Free Registration/Login Required] This unit helps children to learn that there are many aspects to keeping healthy. Children learn about the heart and how heartbeat is affected by exercise. It gives opportunities to explore issues about...
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Body Mass Index (Bmi Calculator)
Learn about body mass index and how this number affects your overall health. Then plug in your own data to find your BMI.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Mitral Valve Prolapse
This site contains links to various topics that will teach about mitral valve prolapse, or MVP. It covers symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and healthy living.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: High Cholesterol
Thorough overview of high cholesterol. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and much more.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Cboces: Migrant Education Program: Pump, Jump, Thump!
Shows activities children do that keep their hearts healthy. Includes audio narration in 13 additional languages with text in English.
Curated OER
Kids Health: About Kids Health
This page for the huge KidsHealth site gives you a jumping-off point and an overview of the site's content, purpose, and usage. With sections for parents, kids, and teens, KidsHealth has been online since 1995 and today it is accessed...
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Cardiac Rehabilitation
This tutorial presents information about cardiac rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is necessary to maintain heart health. The heart, angina, exercise, prevention, obesity and other risk factors are covered.
Other
Story md.com: Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Ldl/hdl Ratio
Under certain conditions, the risk of developing coronary heart disease (strokes, heart attack) cannot be properly assessed only by looking at a person's lipids test results. In these cases, the LDL "bad cholesterol" to HDL "good...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Effects of Tobacco
This lesson engages students in learning about the negative impact of tobacco. Students will demonstrate their learning by writing what they have learned on hearts that will be strung together and displayed. Students will also write...
Curated OER
Kids Health: The Big Story on Bones
This detailed article on bones provides a diagram of the skeletal system, advice to keep bones healthy, and links to further related information. User has option to view Shockwave or non-Shockwave version of this website.
National Institutes of Health
Pdf: Prevention of Heart Disease (Spanish) [Pdf]
A downloadable PDF comic book in Spanish with information on how to prevent heart disease and promote healthy hearts.
National Institutes of Health
Nhlbi: Heart Health and Prevention of Heart Disease [Pdf]
A downloadable PDF comic booklet with information on how to prevent heart disease and promote healthy hearts.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Circulatory System Internet Workshop
This site features a circulatory system internet workshop focused on diseases and healthy living. Students and teachers will benefit from the resources linked to this site.
Other
Nutrition, Health & Heart Disease
This website provides information about nutrition, health, and heart disease. It also discusses specific types of vitamin and mineral supplements you can take to improve or maintain your health.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition: Guidelines for Children
An overview of the dietary recommendations for babies, children and teens. Topics include the benefits of breastfeeding, calorie recommendations by age, and suggestions for a balanced diet.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition: Weight Loss or Diets
Learn about the problems associated with fad diets and other rapid weight loss attempts including inadequate nutrition. Healthier alternatives in the form of long-term habit changes are also presented.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Fractures
This site from the MayoClinic.com provides great information on fractures, or broken bones. The information is very brief with links to shock, CPR and severe bleeding. Also lets you know what to do if there is an injury or a trauma.