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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Label the heart using your flags Heart Dissection Watch the video of the sheep heart dissection YOUR TURN – label it using your flags then email me a picture: Louise.maughan@ntlp.org.uk 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

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

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