Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
Merck Manual: Biology of the Heart
The Merck Manual describes the human heart and shows how the heart pumps blood. Includes interactive 3D models.
About Kids Health
About Kids Health: Congenital Heart Conditions Resource Center
A complete reference tool that serves as an illustrated resource for presenting information on heart conditions. Content includes information on what they are, how the heart works, diagnosis, congenital defects, treatment, and long term...
About Kids Health
About Kidshealth: The Normal Heart
Learn all about the normal heart including how it works and the parts of the heart.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Heart Anatomy
Students learn the anatomy and physiology of the human heart through text readings, illustrated diagrams, and self-checking review questions at the end.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Development of the Heart
Study the embryological development of heart structures including the five regions of the fetal heart with these learning exercises.
University of California
The Auscultation Assistant
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...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Heart and Circulatory System
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.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Lesson Plan Site: Sounds of the Heart
In this site, students investigate the sounds of the heart, construct a stethoscope, and investigate the workings of valves.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Study of the Heart and Circulation
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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Amazing Heart Facts
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.
Texas A&M University
Organ Systems: Story Time: William Harvey
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.
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Anatomy of the Heart
One-page overview containing a detailed labeled diagram of the anatomy of the heart including the valves, conduction system, and circulatory system.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Put Your Heart Into Engineering
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...
Science Bob Pflugfelder
Science Bob: Body Zone: The Heart
An introduction to the different regions of the heart, along with a description of the hearts function. A good overview site.
Gateway Community College
Gateway Community College: Heart Anatomy, Interior View
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...
Texas Heart Institute
Texas Heart Institute: Anatomy of the Human Heart
Take an interactive tour of the human heart. Click on each part of the illustration to read more information about each structure.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Cardiac Cycle
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.
Other
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust: Learn Ar: Biology: Heart
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...
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Stress Echocardiography
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.
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.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Heart
Labeled illustration of the human heart, with callouts for the aorta, pulmonary artery, venticles, and atria.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: The Heart of the Matter
A good quick look at the comparative anatomy of the heart of a typical bird and the human heart. Gives some of the facts behind the differences.
Other
Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne: Normal Heart
This resource discusses the various parts of the heart that make it work. A labeled diagram is also provided.
OpenStax
Open Stax: Anatomy & Physiology: Blood Vessel Development, Fetal Circulation
Students learn about the development of blood vessels, and how this contrbutes to fetal circulation.