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Theme: Heart and More Volume III, Issue 6 |
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For the Young at Heart Valentine's Day can be a great time to talk about our wonderful circulatory system and that amazing pump in our body, the heart. Use these template ideas below or create your own activities to get students motivated to write about the heart. The Heart Movie is a great way to get them pumped up and excited about learning. This little site contains easy to read important facts about the heart! You will need Flash 4 Player to view the movie! |
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| KidPix
Templates Use the simple templates below with your younger students. To save these to your computer, right click and save target as. |
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Hearty Activities for the Older Students |
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| How Your Heart Works
Using Inspiration students can easily manipulate symbols and use the drawing line tool instead of the linking tool to label the parts of the heart. These two templates are simple, but could be modified for older students. Visit How Your Heart Works at How Stuff Works for an online lesson or virtual trip before your students complete the activity. The activity could be a great assessment tool! Click to enlarge the diagrams. These templates were created in Inspiration 6. To use as a template that must be saved as templates on individual machines. |
Heartfelt Students will enjoy working with hearty expressions! Some common expressions or idioms of the heart: Heart to Heart Here are just a few
heartfelt activities that can be used to express understanding of these terms. Tie in
a language arts objective for
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Scholastic's
Lesson This lesson from Scholastic, is part of the Magic School Bus Teacher Feature. Scholastic is a leader is providing helpful resources to the classroom teacher. This activity involves comparing heart rate with activity and charting. Using multiplication students will figure how many times their heart beats an hour, a day or even for the entire year. Their results can easily be graphed using the Graph Club or Excel. The Lesson
The Beat Goes On! |
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The Total Body Use the digital camera to to place a picture of your students in a Kid Pix template. Create a template so students can label, draw or stamp the body organs. You will need to purchase the Kid Pix Activity Kit, My Body, to have the body stamps in your stamp collection. The Body Tour
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| Body Builder Web Quest - This site is awesome. Don't forget to check out Part C - Keep the Blood Moving! | |||
| KidsHealth - All About the Heart - This is a site that contains a lot of information that could be incorporated into an Internet Scavenger Hunt! | |||
| BrainPop Heart Movie - Students enjoy watching the heart movie and taking the quiz to test for understanding. | |||
| The Heart - An Online Exploration - This site is a great virtual field trip for your students. | |||
| Nova Online- Map of the Human Heart - Here is a visual for students to understand the heart as the pump of the circulatory system. | |||
| The Visible Heart- Scroll down to find these awesome movies of the transparent heart. You will need Quick Time. | |||
| Jump Rope for Heart - Students will be participating in this activity. Please visit to see the impact this program has on our healthy students! | |||
| Jump Into a Healthy Life is another great healthy site created by ThinkQuest participants. | |||
| Heart Clip Art - Some educational heart clipart! Hearty ABC's! | |||
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| Kathy Adkins |
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