1. The heart The heart is like a….
Come up with your own analogy to explain what the heart is like and WHY!!

2. What are the key features of the heart?
Lesson Learning Outcomes:
Label a diagram of the structure of the heart
Describe how blood circulates around the body
Suggest why the heart is a double pump
Increasing Difficulty 2

3. Your heart is amazing... The heart beats approx 100, 000 a day
Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles
During an average lifetime, the heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of blood
The “thump-thump” of a heartbeat is the sound made by the four valves of the heart closing
A 12 week old foetus’ heart pumps 60 pints of blood a day

4. Back to Back
In your pair collect a whiteboard (if you are in a three get two!)
The person (people) with the whiteboard(s) sit facing AWAY from the big whiteboard
The person without a whiteboard should face towards it
Say what you see

5. Lungs Pulmonary Artery Pulmonary Vein Right Atrium Left Atrium
Left Ventricle
Right Ventricle
Vena Cava
Aorta
Project this slide on to the board. Position students back to back (one facing board other facing away). Alternatively, print off this slide.
Tissues of the body

6. Blood
Put the cards in the correct order to show the journey a blood cell takes around the body

7. Stick in your sheet under the title
Left hand page
Right hand page
The Heart
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Stick in your sheet under the title
Summary

8. Your turn Stick your diagram into your book
Use a red coloured pencil to show the path of oxygenated blood and a blue one to show the path of deoxygenated blood

9. Heart Dissection Preparation
R. Ventricle
L. Ventricle
R. Atrium
Heart Dissection Preparation
In groups of three or four
Use cocktail sticks and sticky labels to create flags/labels
You are nearly ready for the dissection
Vena Cava
Heart valve
L. Atrium
Aorta
Coronary arteries

10. Label the heart using your flags
Heart Dissection
Watch the video of the sheep heart dissection
YOUR TURN – label it using your flags then me a picture:
If you don’t want to dissect sit at the table at the back and use the text book pagest o make notes on the key structures of the heart
Label the heart using your flags

11. I’ll print off your pictures and you can stick it in your book
Left hand page
Right hand page
The Heart
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Summary
I’ll print off your pictures and you can stick it in your book

12. Holiday Postcard
Imagine you are red blood cell off on a nice trip around the body
Write a postcard describing all the sites you see and draw a picture to show one of the key sites on your journey