OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Capillary Exchange
Students learn about the primary mechanisms of capillary exchange and distinguish between capillary hydrostatic pressure and blood colloid osmotic pressure.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Put Your Heart Into Engineering
This lesson 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...
University of Kansas Medical Center
University of Kansas Medical Center: Respiratory System
What do you know about the respiratory system? Check out this site to learn more about this fascinating body system. This resource features slides of the different parts of this system.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Mn Lesson Plan: Lung Model
In this lesson plan site, students do an experiment, read, and view pictures to learn about the parts of the body that are involved in the breathing process. Contains related links.
The Franklin Institute
The Franklin Institute: Blood Vessels
What are blood vessels and what do they do? Find out here at this Franklin Institute site!
![Educaplus: Funcionamiento De Un Capilar [In Spanish] PPT](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/120229-f8f25bc1e46a3ce90283c07603381a81.jpg?1661543786 "Educaplus: Funcionamiento De Un Capilar [In Spanish] PPT")
Educaplus (Jesús Peñas Cano)
Educaplus: Funcionamiento De Un Capilar [In Spanish]
These animated slides explain the operation of a capillary.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Animals: Human Cardiovascular System: Lesson 1
This lesson provides an overview that explains the cardiovascular system in humans. It is 1 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Cardiovascular System."
Other
Canadian Lung Association: Respiratory System
A chart of the repiratory system and an explanation of the various components.
Other
Lung Association of Saskatchewan: How Do We Breathe?
This Lung Association of Saskatchewan site for kids explains how we breathe and the basic mechanics.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Label the Lungs
Do you know the parts of the lung? Check out this lung diagram that can be printed out for students to label the various parts.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Kids Learn: Respiratory System Internet Workshop
Come and explore this internet workshop that was designed to introduce you to a study on the respiratory system. Students and teachers will benefit from this resource.
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
Kids learn.org: Circulatory System
What do you know about the circulatory system? This site features several links to help you increase your knowledge of this fascinating human body system.
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: 11.24 Blood Vessels
Learn about the blood vessels of the human body.
Florida State University
Florida State University: Marcello Malpighi
Read about the accomplishments of Marcello Malpighi, a seventeenth century Italian physiologist. Includes a black and white portrait.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Video: Capillaries
A video showing and explaining that capillaries are microscopic blood vessels that are one cell layer thick. [0:13]
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Animals: Human Cardiovascular System: Lesson 2
This lesson provides an overview that explains the cardiovascular system in humans. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Cardiovascular System."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Animals: Human Cardiovascular System: Lesson 3
This lesson provides an overview that explains the cardiovascular system in humans. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Cardiovascular System."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Animals: Human Cardiovascular System: Lesson 4
This lesson provides an overview that explains the cardiovascular system in humans. It is 4 of 4 in the series titled "Animals: Human Cardiovascular System."
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: Body Zone: The Lungs
An introduction to the form and function of the lungs, including the bronchioles and alveoli.
Inner Body
Innerbody: Animation of a Capillary
This site from Innerbody.com has an amazing animation of how a capillary works; there is even a detailed description to help understand the process.
Other
Biology at Clermont College: The Respiratory System
What do you know about the respiratory system? This site gives a detailed description of this integral human body system. Don't miss out.