Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: The Circulatory System
A detailed overview of the circulatory system, including plasma and proteins. Designed as lesson plans, this site can be helpful for students as well.
Michigan Reach Out
Newton's Apple: Blood Typing
Describes blood typing and explains some information in reference to blood composition.Provides links to resources and a blood typing lab.
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry
Abpi: Heart and Circulation
A complete, self-paced lesson on the heart and circulation. Students work their way through illustrations and animated tutorials, and answer review questions along the way. There is a self-checking quiz at the end of the lesson.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: It Begins With the Heart
For this lesson, students can learn basic information about the human heart, including its role in circulation, and its external appearance.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Mosquito
An illustrated diagram of the Anopheles mosquito. Get detailed information on its life cycle, mosquito bites, and more.
Palomar Community College District
Palomar College: Blood Components (Tutorial)
This review of what makes up human blood is easy to read and understand. There are guides to pronunciation and glossary links as well as a self quiz to check your understanding.
Other
Washington University: Hemoglobin and the Heme Group:
This site from the Department of Chemistry at the Washington University provides a deetailed study of the role of hemoglobin in blood physiology. The article is somewhat in-depth, complete with pictures, charts, and a bibliography.
Other
Washington University: P H Buffers in the Blood
This site from the Department of Chemistry at the Washington University is an excellent site on how buffers are used in the human body and how they react to exercise.
Other
Lymphoma Information Net: Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
A screening test for some diseases by measuring how erythrocytes settle out of the blood.
Other
Daily Bible Study the Ten Plagues
This is an excellent site to help with research on the Ten Plagues in the book of Exodus. It describes the situation in Egypt that the time and gives Biblical references for each plague.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Blood
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this interactive tutorial students will learn to explain how the heart pumps blood throughout the body. Students will explain the composition of blood and will...
Other
National Hemophilia Foundation
The National Hemophilia Foundation site offers comprehensive information on bleeding illnesses and updates on research.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Acid Base Balance
Students learn how buffer systems in the body - the respiratory and the renal - affect the blood pH.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: An Overview of Blood
Find out about the characteristics and components of blood with informational text, diagrams, examples, and review questuons.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Cardiac Muscle and Electrical Activity
Students learn about cardiac muscles and the electrical activity that helps them function to pump blood throughout the body.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Production of the Formed Elements
Students trace the generation of the formed elements of blood from bone marrow stem cells, and then learn the role of hemopoietic growth factors in promoting the production of the formed elements.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Hemostasis
Students learn about hemostasis through online text readings, illustrated diagrams, interactive link questions, and self-checking practice questions.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Going With the Flow of Nosebleeds
Getting hit in the face is not the only cause of nosebleeds. Lots of kids have nosebleeds, they are quite common. Even thought they can be scary and gross, nosebleeds are usually not really a big deal. Use this site to learn more about...
Curated OER
Kids Health: How Stitches Help Kids Heal
Just about every kid needs to have stitches at one time or another. Whether you're playing a bit too hard and conk your head - ouch! - on your dresser, or your little brother trips you and you cut your knee, sometimes your skin needs...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Put Your Heart Into Engineering
This lesson plan contains background about the blood vascular system and the heart. Also, the different sizes of capillaries, veins, and arteries, and how they affect blood flow through the system. We will then proceed to talk about the...
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...
National Institutes of Health
Nih: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
View various resources on cardiovascular health. Included at this website, in addition to general resources on heart and lung health, are write-ups on various research studies and medical and technological advances.
About Kids Health
About Kids Health: Congenital Heart Conditions Resource Center
A complete reference tool that serves as an illustrated resource for presenting information on heart conditions. Content includes information on what they are, how the heart works, diagnosis, congenital defects, treatment, and long term...
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Lymphocyte Subsets as Prognostic Markers
This is a summary of a paper on how lymphocyte subsets may be used in the prognosis of individuals undergoing immunomodulatory therapy for cancer.