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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Here's To Your Healthy Heart!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the primary controllable and uncontrollable factors that put one at greater risk for developing heart disease. Through discussion, research, physical tests, and questionnaires they determine whether or not they are at...
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App
Pocket Anatomy

Pocket Heart

For Students 9th - Higher Ed
An all-encompassing, fully interactive, gorgeously animated model of the heart can be used to teach cardiac anatomy, physiology, and even a touch of epidemiology.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Health Concerns Lecture

For Teachers 6th - 10th
This lesson on health concerns includes a ton of information. There is a PowerPoint presentation that walks through the entire lesson. If you want a quick introduction to these topics then run through this slide presentation quickly, but...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Heart Stopper

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Use the pump from a spray bottle to drive a model of the heart in action! In addition to modeling the function of the heart and blood vessels, aspiring anatomists also simulate arterial blockage. They compare the effects of increased...
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Lesson Plan
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Heart Alert

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore some of the causes and preventions of heart disease. Young learners play a game of tag in which the taggers role play as risk factors for heart disease. Players who are tagged call out "heart alert" and are saved when someone...
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Lesson Plan
National First Ladies' Library

Heart Health: Awareness and Research for Women

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners explore basic heart anatomy, review basic definition of heart disease, research different tests used to diagnose heart disease and heart attacks, discuss what constitutes a "healthy heart" lifestyle, and incorporate it into...
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Lesson Plan
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How to Protect Your Heart

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine risk factors associated with heart disease and develop their own personal plans for decreasing the risk of heart disease.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Heart Disease Prevention

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students create a PowerPoint presentation on heart disease.  In this creative lesson students include symptoms, causes, treatments and ideas for prevention in their presentation. 
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Worksheet
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Cardiovascular Disease

For Students 6th - 8th
In this health worksheet, middle schoolers find the words that are related to cardiovascular disease and the answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Cholesterol Awareness

For Students 9th - 12th
In this health worksheet, students find the words that are related to cholesterol and treatments for it. The answers are found at the bottom of the page.
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Lesson Plan
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Blood Pressure and Heart Disease

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students explore the major causes of heat attacks as the topics of the human circulatory system, blood pressure, heart disease, arteries and veins are examined. Opinions on the topics are developed as researched material is presented to...
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Lesson Plan
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Brushing Teeth Halts Heart Disease

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders examine the causes and effects of Heart Disease. In this ESL Current Events lesson, 9th graders read an article on Heart Disease. Students complete guided questions on the reading.
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Lesson Plan
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Heart Fair

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars demonstrate their knowledge of the heart and heart disease by creating and presenting a project at the annual Heart Fair. They design a booth for the Heart Fair and inform people of how to have and maintain a healthy heart.
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Website
BBC

Bbc: Development and Health

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive website is a lesson for students in determining the factors that divide developed and developing countries. Major health issues of each are also included. Archived.
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Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Stroke Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
A stroke disrupts the brain's function by injuring brain cells, usually by interfering with the brain's blood supply. Because the brain's blood supply can be disrupted for different reasons, doctors generally classify strokes into three...
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Article
Aetna Intelihealth

Aetna: Inteli Health: Should You Take Statins?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article on looks at statins, a family of drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol.
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Website
University of California

Uci Heart Disease Prevention Program

For Students 9th - 10th
Visit this website and read articles on heart-disease prevention and medical research. Addressing topics such as cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diet, this website provides help for everyone concerned about their cardiovascular...
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Website
University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Heart to Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the story of James Reynolds as he receives a heart transplant. This site gives a fairly graphic, detailed account of the surgery involved.
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Unit Plan
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Abpi: Heart and Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
Other

Congestive Heart Failure

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides in-depth information about congestive heart failure (CHF). The site asks and answers important questions to better educate the public.
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Website
Other

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
This website, available in English or French, presents general information on heart health and research news. Learn what heart disease is and how it can be prevented and treated through diet and exercise.
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Website
Other

Adult Congenital Heart Association

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has information and resources about congenital heart disease. The association "is a national organization for adults, and adolescents, with congenital heart disease (CHD)." It offers links to information and resources, support,...
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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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Handout
Curated OER

Kids Health: All About the Heart

For Students 3rd - 8th
Kids Health features this diagrammatically color-illustrated article about the human heart.