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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: How the Circulatory System of a Pig Works

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the parts of a pig's circulatory system and how its blood circulates. Circulation in a pig fetus is also described as it has differences.
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Other

Look d.com: Fish Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from LookD.com provides information about bony fish circulation systems. The article is very brief, only one paragraph in length, but worth checking out on the subject.
Interactive
What2Learn

What2 Learn: Heart and Circulation

For Students 6th - 9th
Play this interactive hangman game to develop your vocabulary of terms dealing with the heart and circulatory system.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: The Circulatory System of Fish

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the anatomy of a fish's circulatory system and how the blood circulates in a fish.
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BiologyWise

Biology Wise: Circulatory System of a Rat

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the parts of a rat's circulatory system and how the blood circulates in a rat.
Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: William Harvey

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how William Harvey was the first known to describe completely the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart.
Lesson Plan
NOAA

Noaa: Ocean Explorer: Off Base Acidity of Oceans

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A student inquiry into properties of the ocean's carbonate buffer system, and how changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide levels may affect ocean pH and biological organisms that depend on calcification.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill: Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive page on the circulatory system in general. Scroll down to section 49.3 and you will find a simple comparison of the reptilian system to the other vertebrae systems.
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Geography 4 kids

Geography4 kids.com: Atmospheric Circulation

For Students 3rd - 8th
Check out how air circulates around us. Understand the differences between mesoscale and microscale.
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Wolfram Research

Wolfram Science World: Hadley Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
The creation of wind systems by Hadley cells is explained at this site.
Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: From the Heart

For Students 9th - 10th
This video segment describes the basics of the circulatory system: how the heart pumps the blood that carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body. [3:14]
Article
NOAA

Noaa: Weather Systems and Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
Imagine our weather if Earth were completely motionless, had a flat dry landscape and an un-tilted axis. This, of course, is not the case; if it were, the weather would be much different. The local weather that impacts our daily lives...
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PBS

Nova Online: Troubled Hearts

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains pictures of hearts that have some type of problem such as narrowing of the arteries and muscle damage from a heart attack. There is also a terrific picture of the coronary artery system that supplies the heart.
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American Academy of Family Physicians

Family doctor.org: Peripheral Arterial Disease and Claudication

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides information about peripheral arterial disease and claudication (poor circulation) and related health problems it.
Lesson Plan
Museum of Science

Museum of Science and Industry: Online Science: Activities: What Goes Around

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An activity where students take on the roles of parts of the circulatory system, and simulate the transport of nutrients, oxygen, and carbon dioxide through the blood stream.
Lesson Plan
Science Museum of Minnesota

Habits of the Heart: Lessons: Blood Circulation

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Teacher directed lesson where students dramatize the flow of blood through the heart.
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Other

World Invisible: The Human Circulatory System: Blood Circulation

For Students 9th - 10th
A labeled diagram of the major veins and arteries in the human body.
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Climate Literacy

Clean: What Happens to Ice in Water?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate the properties of water in the ice and liquid phase as it relates to convection in the ocean and density driven circulation, and ultimately the climate.
Website
NASA

Nasa: Oceanography

For Students 9th - 10th
Join NASA in its study of oceanography and learn about the Earth system, the physical ocean, and life in the ocean. Try out the Giovanni: Earth Data Visualization Tool and access satellite-derived data to enhance the learning experience.
Website
Other

Niwa: El Nino and La Nina

For Students 9th - 10th
A webpage discussing the global climate systems of El Nino and La Nina. Learn that these weather patterns are "ocean warming" events that are global climate fluctuations that cause major changes in the Pacific atmospheric and ocean...
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Other

Old English Money

For Students 9th - 10th
See a chart of Old English Money that was in circulation in 1945.
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Other

Rush University Medical Center: Lung Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines and describes the three main types of lung disease: airway diseases, lung tissue diseases, and lung circulation diseases. Also includes links to other common lung diseases that provides facts on causes, symptoms, treatment,...
Unit Plan
National Institutes of Health

National Library of Medicine: Your Beating Heart

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson plan site, the students will learn about the circulatory system and perform an experiment where they take their pulse after various activities.
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The New Zoos: Doctor Fish

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Investigate the evolution of the heart and circulatory system in mammals by studying the anatomy of hearts in other animals. Create models of the hearts of fish, amphibians and mammals.

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