BC Grade 5 Science IRP:

• describe the basic structure and functions of the human respiratory, digestive, circulatory, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems
• explain how the different body systems are interconnected

Related Pages on this Wiki:

Nervous System

Bones, Muscles, Skin

Respiratory System

Digestive System

This Webquest as written is probably too difficult for many students but it's a great concept to have students role-playing a number of people involved in the life of a heart patient:  a doctor who needs a 3-D model and charts to explain the heart to patients, a dietician to help people learn to eat better, a personal trainer to help people exercise.

Student Links

This is a Sqworl page of student links for the circulatory system (grade 4/5).

Research

	World Book for Kids WBFK has entries for heart, artificial heart, blood, heart attack, and pulse.  Students can use the built-in text-to-speech to read the articles.
	Kids Health 5 pages of great information about the heart and circulatory system at this site.   You can increase the text size on this page and download both the text and the audio version (English and Spanish.)  I could get pages 2-5 to read using their built-in text-to-speech, but page 1 wouldn't read. Clicking on the print option but not actually printing gives a nice clean view for reading.

Games and Interactives

BBC Kids Heart and Health This site presents basic information about the heart with an emphasis on heart health.  Has an interactive that lets you test the effects of various activities (sleeping, sitting, walking, running) on the heart.

Videos/Songs

	NeoK12 Videos There's a collection of short videos on the circulatory system here (1-4 minutes).  They represent slightly different perspectives and levels of difficulty.
	Blood Circulation for Kinesthetic Learners (3 min) A group of young students from Pakistan narrate and act out the circulation story.  Very clever and would be so much fun to do!
	Heart Animation and Quiz This simple heart animation shows blood flow into and out of the heart.  You can switch the labels on and off and pause the demo.  Here's the matching labelling quiz.  The labels are relatively simple:  vein, artery, muscle, valve, atrium, ventricle, to body, to lungs
	Circulatory System Rap There are an insane number of songs about the circulatory system on YouTube including a lot of mash-ups of this rap with different graphics.  Here's a version the rappers (Rhythm, Rhyme, and Results) themselves enjoyed.  Turns out they have a website where they sell educational songs, but there are a few free samples there.

Clicker5 (requires the software; activities can be downloaded free from SET-BC)

	Circulatory System Students read and write (unscramble sentences) about the circulatory system in this activity designed to meet grade 5 PLO's.
	Circulatory and Excretory Systems In this activity, the student will learn and write about how the heart and blood carry nutrients and oxygen to your cells and how wastes are eliminated from the body.  Designed to meet grade 5 PLO's.
	Basic Organs and Systems This activity, designed to meet grade 5 PLO's, covers the major body systems including the circulatory system.

SMARTBoard

	Notebook Lessons A search for lessons on "circulatory system" returned 29 results and over 100 for "heart".  You can preview and download these lessons at the SMART Activity Exchange.
	Pictures There are several views of the heart, arteries, veins, and circulatory system, labelled and unlabelled in a folder called Human Body in the Gallery.
	Resuscitation Game Put the heart together correctly to save the patient.
	Heart Labelling Activity There are basic and advanced levels of this two-part activity.  The Click and Reveal section teaches the part of the heart and the Drag and Drop tests the student's ability to drag labels to the correct location.
	Heart Structure Animation and Test This activity teaches about the structure of the heart using an animation and then tests student's knowledge of heart parts with an errorless multiple choice test.