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Otter's Elementary Science Curriculum:
The Human Body

Week 14 Heart


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Read to Learn

Kid’s Discover: Heart

p.2-5 p.6-11 p.12-15

p.15-19

Experiments, Activity Books & Kits

Blood and Guts

Blood and Guts

p.49-51

Activities:

Tennis ball squeeze
Stethoscope

Supplies needed:

Tennis ball, rubber tubing, funnel (or $6 stethoscope from Home Training Tools)

p.52-53

Activity:

Heart dissection

Supplies needed: animal heart from grocery store or Home Training Tools, cutting tools

p.54-55

Activities:

Tourniquet
Under your tongue

Matchstick pulse meter

Supplies needed: cloth like a handkerchief, mirror, flashlight, clay, matchstick, optional thumbtack

p.56-58

Activity:

Stress test

 

 

       
Movies
BrainPop.com

Heart

 

 

 

United Streaming PLUS  

 

 

   
Free movies online   Newton's Apple: Heart Attack    
Workbooks /Cut & Paste Model books

The Body Book

The Body Book (Grades 3-6)

p.108-118

Color page 113

Make the heart model

p.110 Using the model

p.111 The value of valves (read and make the heart valve)

p.118 Color and cut out the reproducible

p. 112 Healthy choices

The Human Body
Optional Book
Human Body (Grades 5-8)

p.26 Your heart

p. 27 Your heart, the blood pump

p.28 Circulatory system review

p. 93 Optional activity: pulse rate

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Websites to Visit and Online Activities

Movie: Heart & Circulatory System

 


 

 

 

 

 
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