Unit Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Heart and Circulation: Outside and Inside

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students explore the human heart and circulatory system. To promote deeper understanding of key concepts, the activity also includes a procedure for observing preserved sheep hearts.
Interactive
PBS

Nova Online: Map of the Human Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
This PBS site has a concise explanation of how the heart works. There is also a moving diagram of a working heart.
Lesson Plan
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.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Heart Health: How Does Heart Rate Change With Exercise?

For Students 6th - 8th
Your heart starts beating before you are born and keeps right on going through your whole life. Over an average lifetime, the human heart beats more than 2.5 billion times. Keeping your heart healthy means eating right, not smoking, and...
Website
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.

Merck Manual: Biology of the Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
The Merck Manual describes the human heart and shows how the heart pumps blood. Includes interactive 3D models.
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.
Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Heart Anatomy

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn the anatomy and physiology of the human heart through text readings, illustrated diagrams, and self-checking review questions at the end.
Lesson Plan
SEDL

The Human Body [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A large PDF unit that teaches students about the human body systems. Incorporates many activities and integrates math and language arts.
Graphic
Other

World Invisible: The Human Circulatory System: Blood Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
A labeled diagram of the major veins and arteries in the human body.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Heart to Heart

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the form and function of the human heart through lecture, research and dissection. They brainstorm ideas that pertain to various heart conditions and organize these ideas into categories that help them research...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Aging Heart Valves

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this unit, students learn about the form and function of the human heart through lecture, research and dissection. Following the steps of the Legacy Cycle, students brainstorm, research, design and present viable solutions to various...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering the Heart: Heart Valves

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners 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...
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Science of the Heart and Circulation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit teachers will evaluate student's current understanding of the heart and circulatory system through a pre-assessment. They will develop group concept maps and then repeat the assessment. Teachers can compare their prior...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Human Heart

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses the anatomy and function of the human heart.
Activity
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.
Website
Other

Inside the Human Body: The Respiratory System (Grades 1 3)

For Students 1st - 4th
Students in grades one through three will love learning about the body's respiratory system through a variety of fun and interactive activities. Particularly engaging is the online storybook that teaches children about the heart and...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.23 Heart

For Students 5th - 9th
Understand how the human heart pumps and controls the blood flow in the body.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Operation: Heart Transplant

For Students 9th - 10th
Perform a virtual heart transplant in nineteen easy steps with this interactive feature from the NOVA: "Electric Heart" Web site. This interactive feature provides an in depth and realistic look at this procedure.
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: The Heart Is a Pump

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson students 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 heart,...
Lesson Plan
BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Heart: Basic Measurements

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan students are introduced to heart-related data, such as blood pressure and oxygen saturation. They will also learn basic information about the heart and circulatory system.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Do You Have the Strength?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this activity, students squeeze a tennis ball to demonstrate the strength of the human heart. Working in teams, they think of ways to keep the heart beating if the natural mechanism were to fail. The goal of this activity is to get...
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Heart Rate Recovery Times

For Students 9th - 10th
After exercise, your heart rate increases, this is normal for everyone. However this experiment asks whether the recovery time for a heart's beating rate is faster for people who get regular exercise versus those that do not.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Amazing Heart Facts

For Students 6th - 8th
This feature from the NOVA: "Cut to the Heart" highlights facts about the heart, including its size and placement, and will help you to understand the importance of this wondrous organ in our bodies.
Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: A Day in the Life of Your Heart

For Students 3rd - 5th
Heart rates can be determined by the amount of physical activity your body is engaging in. The more physically active you are, the faster your heart beats. You can measure the rate your heart is beating by taking your pulse. This science...

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