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Your Beating Heart - Circulatory System

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Students illustrate a schematic circulatory system of a human body including heart, lungs, arteries, veins and capillaries. Next, students conduct an experiment to increase understanding of the relationship between heart rate/pulse and exercise.

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pulse rate, the circulatory system, human body systems, arteries, capillaries, lungs, the heart

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artery, capillary, cardiologist, circulatory system, heart, lungs, pulse, vein, science
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3rd - 4th
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Science
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