Curated OER
Your Beating Heart - Circulatory System
Students illustrate a schematic circulatory system of a human body including heart, lungs, arteries, veins and capillaries. Next, students conduct an experiment to increase understanding of the relationship between heart rate/pulse and...
Curated OER
Capillary Action And Transpiration
Students engage in a study of the concepts of biology with plants known as capillary action and transpiration. They conduct a simple experiment to demonstrate the concept. The lesson includes a background discussion led by the teacher...
Curated OER
Blood Vessels Lab
In this blood vessel worksheet, students compare microscope slides of arteries, veins, and capillaries. This worksheet has 43 fill in the blank questions.
Curated OER
Plant Activities: Suck it up
Students learn about the capillary process by doing a simple experiment with celery.
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.
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.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Structure and Function of Blood Vessels
Learn the structure and function of the blood vessels of the human cardiovascular system.
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.
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]
Science Museum of Minnesota
Lesson Plan: Go With the Flow
In this effective site, students will name the parts of the heart and trace the flow of blood through the body. Contains related links.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Adhesion
Adhesion is defined and an example is given. Adhesion is distinguished from cohesion. Examples of cohesion are stated as well. Links to pages with further information are provided.
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.
Fact Monster
Fact Monster: Adhesion and Cohesion
The forces of adhesion and cohesion are compared and contrasted. Various phenomena which can be explained by such forces are identified and discussed.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Exhibit Cross Reference: Cohesion
Cohesion is defined and an example is given. Cohesion is distinguished from adhesion. Examples of adhesion are stated as well. Links to pages with further information are provided.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Exhibit Cross Reference: Capillarity
Capillarity is defined and an example is given. A reference to the Facts on File dictionary is included. Links to further information are provided.