How Does the Heart Work?

LIFE SCIENCES

Curiosity trigger

Students will find out how their own heart pumps blood. They will perform an experiment to check what happens to the heart when it is sick; and they will watch a film featuring an engineer who created an invention that fixed his own heart.

Curriculum and Skills

Work and Life Skills:

Critical thinking and drawing conclusion

In this lesson, you will cover:

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS:
4-LS1-1. Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.

National Health Education Standards:
7.5.3. Demonstrate a variety of behaviors that avoid or reduce health risks.

You will need

Tubes, bowls, funnels, red juice, pig hearts (optional).

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Authors

Authors: Anna Maliszewska, Małgorzata Sękowska, Dorota Ochijewicz, Zbigniew Gaciong
Speaker: Tal Golesworthy
Methodology: Joanna Miszkiel, Marta Przywara
Translation: George Lisowski
Producer: Marta Przywara

Source

This a modified version of a lesson plan created by the Children’s University Foundation under the CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. Image Desen de anatomie by Heikenwaelder Hugo published on wikipedia under the CC BY-SA 2.5 license.

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