American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Body Mass Index (Bmi Calculator)
Learn about body mass index and how this number affects your overall health. Then plug in your own data to find your BMI.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Conditions: Cholesterol: Why Cholesterol Matters
Learn what cholesterol is, the different types, and why high cholesterol is a health risk. Click on a link to view an illustration of HDL and LDL cholesterol within an artery, as well as learn about methods of prevention and treatment...
Read Works
Read Works: Pumping Up the Heart
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the heart and what can be done when the muscle weakens. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healthy: Nutrition Center: Vegetarian Diets
Learn about different types of vegetarian diets, the correlation between heart health and vegetarianism, and foods that allow vegetarians and vegans to get essential nutrients in their daily diets.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Cardiovascular Conditions: Coronary Artery Disease
Learn about the impact of coronary artery disease on the heart, including when it begins and what can be done to stop its progression. This page includes important facts about the disease and who is at risk for developing it.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Getting Healty: Nutrition Center: Potassium
Learn about potassium and why the mineral is important to our health.
CNN
Cnn: How Keeping Your Cool Could Help Your Heart
Type A personalities or individuals with a "short fuse" may be 3 times more likely to have a heart attack. This CNN research article provides support for stress reduction techniques like yoga.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Cardiovascular Pathology Index
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.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Heart Attack
This resource presents brief information defining a heart attack. The article also contains many links to related topics and publications in English and Spanish.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Cardiovascular Health
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson is all about your heart and how to keep it healthy. Cholesterol, Heart diseases such as hypertension, stroke and heart attacks are discussed as well as steps to maintain a fit heart.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity and Health at a Glance
This website provides notes on exercise, its health benefits, and its role in helping all people feel healthier and stronger. Learn about different types of exercises you can do to improve you health. Also, read facts about adults and...
National Academy of Engineering
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century: Health Technologies
Learners investigate health technologies in the 20th century. Some topics examined are the heart, bionics, and bioengineering. The resource consists of historical information, a timeline, and a personal essay by a key innovator.
BBC
Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: How Can Lifestyle, Genes and Environment Affect Health? Oc
This lesson focuses on Cardiovascular disease. The heart requires its own constant blood supply in order to keep beating and this is delivered through the coronary arteries. Genetic and lifestyle factors can lead to the coronary arteries...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Getting Over a Break Up
Teenagers often dedicate themselves emotionally to a relationship to a great degree and coping with loss can be quite difficult. This site provides insight for teens on how to manage these feelings and move towards the future. Links to...
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Heart Bypass Surgery
From MedlinePlus, a video tutorial featuring information on heart bypass surgery with accompanying text.
Curated OER
Kids Health: My Body
For elementary school children, this page presents information about lungs, muscles, digestive system, teeth, skin, tongue, hair, heart, and more.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Videos Y Multimedia
Online presentations on more than 150 health topics, diseases, and conditions, from acne to viruses. Each plays as a slide presentation, with sound, that you can control or set to autoplay. Time varies from 5-20 minutes. Available in...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Effects of Tobacco
This instructional activity engages students in learning about the negative impact of tobacco. Students will demonstrate their learning by writing what they have learned on hearts that will be strung together and displayed. Students will...
National Institutes of Health
Nih: The Heart Truth: A Campaign for Women About Heart Disease
This comprehensive resource offers information about cardiovascular diseases for women and includes major risk factors.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Congenital Heart Defects: Aortic Valve Stenosis
Explore aortic valve stenosis, the improper closure of the aortic valve. Content describes what aortic regurgitation is with an animation, what causes it, and what can be done for this irregularity.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Conditions: What Is Heart Disease?
Learn about heart disease and related conditions and their causes.
National Institutes of Health
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: What Are the Lungs?
Find excellent information about the human lungs, and how they contribute to the gas exchange process for the body. Inside, find detailed illustrations and a short, narrated animation of the respiratory system at work.
Other
Story md.com: Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Ldl/hdl Ratio
Under certain conditions, the risk of developing coronary heart disease (strokes, heart attack) cannot be properly assessed only by looking at a person's lipids test results. In these cases, the LDL "bad cholesterol" to HDL "good...
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Low Blood Pressure
Presents low blood pressure as a common side effect of pregnancy, some medications, and other circumstances, but as an indication of a potential problem if associated with a provided list of warning signs and symptoms.