Getting Down to the Heart of the Matter (Circulatory System Activities)

After learning about

The Nervous System,

we got down...

...to the heart of the matter

in our human body study

by examining the Circulatory System.

Using the

AIMS From Head to Toe

book as our guide,

here are the activities we completed...

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I introduced the Circulatory System to the kiddos...

...by watching THIS, THIS, and THIS

on You Tube.

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Besides the printables from

AIMS From Head to Toe

I found...

...THIS worksheet for the kiddos to color...

...as they learned about

human heart anatomy.

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When we studied the how and why 

blood circulates throughout the body...

...I found THIS game for the kiddos

to play.

Honestly,

it was a bit long for my kiddos to play,

so we cut it short.

But it DID teach them about blood circulation.

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One of the activities the kiddos completed from

AIMS From Head to Toe

entitled

Heart Stings...

...had the kiddos make a simplified model

of the circulatory system.

Using different thicknesses and colors of yarn...

 

...the kiddos tied pieces together to model

how arteries, capillaries, and veins

connect to one another.

We added our own spin on this activity...

...by adding a small heart shaped bead

in between the arterial yarn and venial yarn. 

The kiddos held their yarn

next to their bodies 

to demonstrate how the blood circulates

throughout the body.

The finished product

also made a cute mini scarflette

they could wear as a reminder!

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We studied human blood...

...by making a model using

beads and jello.

We followed the directions from

Relentlessly Fun Deceptively Educational...

...to create our model

There was also a printable the kiddos used to

record their finding.

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One of the final activities we did examined what

blood pressure is.

"In a Heartbeat" 

uses...

...marshmallows and toothpicks

to detect how many beats per minute

a person's heart beats.

Gotta be honest-

this activity did not work too well for us.

We did see the toothpick move a bit on our wrists,

but not enough to get a good count in for a minute.

The kiddos still got the idea,

and this packet included a fun fact sheet about

animal heart beats per minutes

which we enjoyed reading about.

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All in all,

I think we were able to get down to the heart of,

well,

the heart!

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