video - The Cardiovascular System Song by Peter Weatherall
video - The Heart Song (Mr Parr)
video - Circulatory System Rap (Pump it Up!)
video - Circulatory System Musical Quiz (Heart quiz)
video - Heart Song - the human heart (Mr R)
video - Circulatory System (rap - taking blood from the heart to the cells and back)
video - Heart dissection
video - How a Normal Heart Pumps Blood - good animation
video - How the Heart Works 3D Video - includes "electric system"
video - Heart Attack in 3D animation (5 most common heart conditions)
video - What Color is Your Blood?
video - Flow of blood through the heart (Khan Academy)
video - "I'm your heart, I live inside your body..."
video - Dissection of Turkey (summarizes all the systems we studied)
video - How to Feel Your Heart Beat
video - How to Take a Pulse
link to website that highlights the parts and describes each part innerbody.com - circulatory system (aka cardiovascular system)
link to games to play to learn the circulatory system - Anatomy Arcade
pictures/diagrams used in class:
Arteries bring oxygen to all the cells in our body. Capillaries exchange oxygen, nutrients, and wastes between the blood and the cells. Veins bring carbon dioxide back to the heart. There blood gets pumped over to the lungs to get rid of the carbon dioxide and pick up oxygen.
Circulatory System Overview
Labeled Heart Diagram
Major Arteries
Major Veins & Arteries
What's in Your Blood?
Plasma is the liquid portion of blood – a protein-salt solution in which red and white blood cells and platelets are suspended. Plasma, which is 92 percent water, constitutes 55 percent of blood volume. Plasma contains albumin (the chief protein constituent), fibrinogen (responsible, in part, for the clotting of blood) and globulins (including antibodies).
from http://www.redcrossblood.org/learn-about-blood/blood-components/plasma
Platelets are parts of the blood that help the blood clot. They are smaller than red or white blood cells. from http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003647.htm
White blood cells (leukocytes) are an important part of the body's defense against infectious organisms and foreign substances. To defend the body adequately, a sufficient number of WBCs must receive a message that an infectious organism or foreign substance has invaded the body, get to where they are needed, and then kill and digest the harmful organism or substance. from http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/blood_disorders/white_blood_cell_disorders/overview_of_white_blood_cell_disorders.html
Red blood cells are round with a flattish, indented center, like doughnuts without a hole. Hemoglobin is the protein inside red blood cells that carries oxygen. Red blood cells also remove carbon dioxide from your body, transporting it to the lungs for you to exhale. Red blood cells are made inside your bones, in the bone marrow. They typically live for about 120 days, and then they die. from http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=160&ContentID=34