Circulatory System

Today’s Key Questions:

1. What are the terms used to describe organization levels in your body?
2. How does the body provide nutrients and oxygen to cells in your body?
3. What are major components of the circulatory system?
4. How do the major components of the circulatory system work together?

By the end of class, I should be able to:

• Describe organization in your body (cells, tissues, organs, organ systems and organisms)
• Identify major components of the circulatory system.
• Describe primary function of the circulatory system.

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Language Goals: Use specific words to describe the form and function of the circulatory system.

September Process Words

• Investigate
• Produce
• Demonstrate (7th)
• Emphasize (7th)

Circulatory System Rap - link with lyrics

Resources:

• National Geographic - The Heart
• NOVA - Map of the Human Heart

Tasks:

1. Complete this resource sheet.
2. Update your human half in the classroom.

Key activity (on the resource sheet): Describe the path of a liter of blood as it leaves the heart until it returns to the heart the second time. When you do this, please use specific terms.