Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Habits of the Heart
A guide to the heart, lungs, and circulatory system, and surgical procedures of the heart. Includes many digital images. Lesson plans with pictures and video instructions are very helpful.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: A System of Transport
In this lesson, students are required to work in teams to simulate the volume of blood moving through the circulatory system by transferring blliquid into-and through-a series of containers.
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Clearing a Path to the Heart
Following the engineering design process and acting as biomedical engineers, student teams use everyday materials to design and develop devices and approaches to unclog blood vessels. They learn about the circulatory system, biomedical...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Amazing Heart Facts
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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Circulatory System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the pathways of the pulmonary and systemic circulations.
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.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Saving a Life: Heart Valve Replacement
Students use their knowledge about how healthy heart valves function to design, construct and implant prototype replacement mitral valves for hypothetical patients' hearts. Building on what they learned in the associated lesson about...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: The Heart of the Matter
This lesson describes how the circulatory system works, including the heart, blood vessels and blood. Students learn about the chambers and valves of the heart, the difference between veins and arteries, and the different components of...
PBS
Pbs Nova Online: Amazing Heart Facts
This concise PBS NOVA site contains interesting facts about the heart and how it works.
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...
About Kids Health
About Kidshealth: The Normal Heart
Learn all about the normal heart including how it works and the parts of the heart.
Texas A&M University
Organ Systems: Story Time: William Harvey
William Harvey, doctor during the Age of Enlightenment, challenged mainstream understanding of the heart and the circulation of blood. Read about his early education and his scientific inquiry.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: The Effects of High Blood Pressure on the Heart
Read this passage and study the chart to complete a five-question quiz concerning the circulatory system.
Biology Pages
Kimball's Biology Pages: Anatomy of the Human Circulatory System
This site is produced by John W. Kimball, a retired biology teacher who wrote the textbook that these pages came from. The excerpt explains the different parts of the circulation system and how they function. Includes great pictures!
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Anatomy of the Heart and Cardiovascular System
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.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Pacemaker
Article on arrhythmias with information about the heart's pacemaker.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Map of the Human Heart
See how the human heart moves blood through the body in this animated feature from the NOVA: "Cut to the Heart" Web site.
PBS
Nova Online: Map of the Human Heart
This PBS site has a concise explanation of how the heart works. There is also a moving diagram of a working heart.
PurposeGames
Purpose Games: The Heart
Test your knowledge of the heart by finding the different parts in this 13 question quiz.
Earth Life
Earth Life: A Bird's Heart and Blood
A very good site about the circulatory system of a bird. It is reader friendly, and includes a fair amount of information. Good diagram of the circulatory system.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Heart
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In the following online lesson students will explain how the heart pumps blood throughout the body.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Biology: Circulatory System
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Covers the pathways of the pulmonary and systemic circulations.
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Seer Training Modules: Introduction to the Cardiovascular System
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.