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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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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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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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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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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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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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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Put Your Heart Into Engineering

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This activity 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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US National Library of Medicine

Medline Plus: Stress Echocardiography

For Students 9th - 10th
A stress echocardiogram can help a doctor see how the heart responds to exercise. This tutorial explains how the test works and its risks and benefits.
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Texas A&M University

Organ Systems: Story Time: William Harvey

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Study of the Heart and Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
A concise history of the study of the heart and its anatomy. Includes color pictures and details about the work of Galen, William Harvey, and others.
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Other

Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne: Normal Heart

For Students 6th - 8th
This resource discusses the various parts of the heart that make it work. A labeled diagram is also provided.
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Other

Vesalius: Heart Anatomy, Valve Action

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed images and descriptions of normal heart valve action. Requires a paid subscription to access narratives, images, transparencies, discussions and quizzes.
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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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University of California

The Auscultation Assistant

For Students 9th - 10th
Designed for medical students, this site gives a detailed description of the sounds of the heart and lungs, including disorders, while playing read audio of those sounds with each description. Suitable for upper level high school...
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Blood Vessel Development, Fetal Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about the development of blood vessels, and how this contrbutes to fetal circulation.
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OpenStax

Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Cardiac Muscle and Electrical Activity

For Students 9th - 10th
Students learn about cardiac muscles and the electrical activity that helps them function to pump blood throughout the body.

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