Understanding cardiovascular diseases (Open University OpenLearn)
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Your heart beats around 100,000 times every day and, in that time, pumps about 23,000 litres of blood around your body. But what happens when it doesn’t work as well as it should? This unit explains what happens in cardiovascular ...
The Cardiovascular System (Instructional Architect)
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After completion of this project, you will be able to: 1. Identify the components of blood 2. Describe the function of blood 3. Label a normal human heart. 4. Trace the flow of blood through the human body and the ...
The Beat Goes On (Why Files)
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Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the United States. Heart bypass surgery is a highly successful, routine procedure for most patients. Gaze over our shoulders as The Why Files attends a bypass surgery. How does it work? What ...
NY Times Daily Lesson Plan: Healthy Hearts (Scout)
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This Daily Lesson Plan from the New York Times Learning Network has students explore the causes and cures of diseases affecting the cardiopulmonary system. Designed for grades 6-12, the lesson covers pulse-taking, cardiopulmonary anatomy, cardiopulmonary diseases and advanced technological treatments, ...
From the Heart (MSP)
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This video segment describes the basics of the circulatory system: how the heart pumps the blood that carries oxygen and nutrients throughout the body.
Body Circulation (TeachEngineering)
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Students are introduced to the circulatory system, the heart, and blood flow in the human body. Through guided pre-reading, during-reading and post-reading activities, students learn about the circulatory system’s parts, functions and disorders, as well as engineering medical solutions. By ...
Map of the Human Heart (MSP)
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See how the human heart moves blood through the body in this animated feature from the NOVA: Cut to the Heart Web site.
CardioVascular Genetics: An Online Guide for Patients and their Families (Scout)
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This Web site from Brandeis University focuses on the relationship between congenital heart disease and genetics. The predominantly text site is written for a general audience of patients and their families with little background in genetics. In addition to explaining ...
Pumping heart of the Daphnia (Video and Image Data Access)
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The Daphnia contains a heart, but no blood vessels. The Daphnia has an open circulatory system, meaning blood moves freely in the body. Use these examples to understand that organ systems can be simple or very complex, but their functions ...
The Heart:: An Online Exploration (NEEDS)
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In the course of an average lifetime, the human heart beats more than two billion times, without ever pausing to rest. This interactive guide explores the mysteries of the heart using highly detailed pictures accompanied by concise description on how ...
Cardiac Rehabilitation (H.E.A.L.)
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Experiencing heart disease should be the beginning of a new, healthier lifestyle. This patient education program reviews important information for cardiac rehabilitation including the anatomy of the cardiovascular system, angina, heart attack, stroke, preventive measures, and other risk factors for ...
The Heart of the Matter (TeachEngineering)
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This lesson describes how the circulatory system works, including the heart, blood vessels and blood. Students learn about the chambers and valves of the heart, the difference between veins and arteries, and the different components of blood. This lesson also ...
Endothelium (NEEDS)
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This is a module that uses the endothelium as a model organ for system-level understanding of dynamic and complex biological phenomena in health and disease. We place emphasis in the integrated approach obtained by combining different disciplines (e.g., medicine, bioengineering, ...
Your Blood Pressure (Instructional Architect)
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Keeping your blood pressure at healthy levels is an important factor in preventing cardiovascular disease and stroke.
The Strongest Pump of All (TeachEngineering)
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In this lesson the students will learn how the heart functions. Students will be introduced to the concept of action potential generation. The lesson will explain how action potential generation causes the electrical current that causes muscle contraction in the ...
World Health Organization: The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke (Scout)
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Heart disease and strokes account for numerous deaths annually around the world. This reality prompted the World Health Organization, in partnership with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to produce _The Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke_. The ...
Do You Have the Strength? (TeachEngineering)
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In this activity, students squeeze a tennis ball to demonstrate the strength of the human heart. Working in teams, they think of ways to keep the heart beating if the natural mechanism were to fail. The goal of this activity ...
The Jarvik 2000 Artificial Heart Pump (NEEDS)
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"Like the artificial heart, the first ventricular assist devices (VADs) developed 25 years ago were meant to sideline the failing biological heart of a heart failure patient. These pumps were heavy, bulky things that drew blood from the left ventricle ...
Circulatory system (Video and Image Data Access)
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The circulatory system includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood. Arteries take blood with oxygen to our organs; veins bring deoxygenated blood to the heart (to be pumped to the lungs to get oxygen). Arteries and veins bring essential nutrients ...
Cardiovascular Construction Kit (QUEST)
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The Cardiovascular Construction Kit (CVCK) allows students to design and construct a wide range of cardiovascular systems, testing each one to see how it behaves and whether it could actually exist and survive in a real organism. CVCK provides a ...