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Curated OER

Brain Awareness Week

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the brain. In this science lesson, students create a model of the brain and discuss steps taken in order to protect the brain. Students design a container that would protect the brain from injury. Students discuss the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Brain and Nervous System

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study the physical characteristics of the brain and identify its parts through this series of lessons.
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Handout
Texas Heart Institute

Texas Heart Institute: Anatomy of the Heart and Cardiovascular System

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the cardiovascular system with labeled diagrams and reviews of the heart, torso, arm, leg, and blood, available through the links on the right.
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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.
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Handout
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: The Heart and the Circulatory System

For Students 9th - 10th
Access Excellence offers detailed information, including diagrams and photos, about the anatomy of the heart and its central role in the circulatory system.
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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...
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Interactive
Texas Heart Institute

Texas Heart Institute: Anatomy of the Human Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
Take an interactive tour of the human heart. Click on each part of the illustration to read more information about each structure.
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Handout
Texas Heart Institute

Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Anatomy of the Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page overview containing a detailed labeled diagram of the anatomy of the heart including the valves, conduction system, and circulatory system.
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Interactive
Other

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust: Learn Ar: Biology: Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning resource that incorporates augmented reality (AR), using a camera, where students explore the anatomy of the heart. The home page for this site has a PDF resource that explains how AR works and provides printable marker shapes...
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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.
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Kids Health: Heart and Circulatory System

For Students 9th - 10th
With this resource, visitors can learn how the heart works and about the parts of the heart, the circulation of blood and heart health. The resource is also available in Spanish. Includes audio.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Put Your Heart Into Engineering

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Handout
About Kids Health

About Kids Health: Congenital Heart Conditions Resource Center

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Interactive
About Kids Health

About Kidshealth: The Normal Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about the normal heart including how it works and the parts of the heart.
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Development of the Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
Study the embryological development of heart structures including the five regions of the fetal heart with these learning exercises.
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Unit Plan
OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Cardiac Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn the structure and function of the cardiac muscle and study the components of the conducting system that distributes electrical impulses through the heart during the cardiac cycle.
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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.
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Interactive
Gateway Community College

Gateway Community College: Heart Anatomy, Interior View

For Students 9th - 10th
Test your knowledge of the interior heart with this interactive. When you point to any structure on the photograph, that region or structure will be highlighted in the smaller image to the left to help you locate it. If you click your...
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Handout
Science Bob Pflugfelder

Science Bob: Body Zone: The Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
An introduction to the different regions of the heart, along with a description of the hearts function. A good overview site.
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Graphic
University of Utah

University of Utah: Cardiovascular Pathology Index

For Students 9th - 10th
This site features a detailed index of photographs for cardiovascular pathology. You can see what a normal human heart looks like and what a sick one looks like too. Come and check it out.
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Activity
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: The Heart of the Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
A good quick look at the comparative anatomy of the heart of a typical bird and the human heart. Gives some of the facts behind the differences.
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Lesson Plan
Science Museum of Minnesota

Lesson Plan Site: Sounds of the Heart

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
In this site, students investigate the sounds of the heart, construct a stethoscope, and investigate the workings of valves.
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Graphic
Merriam-Webster

Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
Labeled illustration of the human heart, with callouts for the aorta, pulmonary artery, venticles, and atria.
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Handout
Other

Cartage.org: Abnormal Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Causes of heart failure, signs and characteristics of heart failure, pathologic conditions resulting in heart failure, and more are the topics addressed in this thorough resource.

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