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Course, Subject

Biology/Living Environment, Math, Science & Technology, Science (NYS P-12)

Content Provider

PBS - NOVA

Components

• Map of the Human Heart: Put your finger on the pulse of how the human heart works with an automatically changing color graphic of a heart in cross-section.
• Amazing Heart Facts: Did you know that, on any given day, your heart beats roughly 100,000 times and your blood travels about 12,000 miles as it circulates throughout your body? Find more dazzling details here.
• The Artificial Human: Merely a good idea for a TV show a quarter century ago, the $6 Million Man - or woman - could practically exist today, with everything from hips of steel to laboratory-grown skin regularly replacing what nature originally provided. Meet our fake friend.
• Pioneering Surgeon: O. H. Frazier : O. H. Frazier has done more heart transplants than anyone else alive, well over 700. He also stands at the forefront of researchers striving to create a viable total artificial heart. Here he talks about his work, his thoughts, and his hopes.
• Operation: Heart Transplant or How to Transplant a Heart in Nineteen Easy Steps : Don your surgical mask and try your hand as a heart-transplant surgeon -- metaphorically speaking -- in this simplified online procedure.

Description

This web-based practice allows students to:

• see how a heart works
• manipulate an interactive and perform a heart transplant
• learn interesting facts about the heart
• learn how an artificial person could be created

Using this resource is an engaging approach allowing students to learn about the parts of the heart as well as how a heart transplant takes place. This can be used as a review of a previous lesson or as an instructional approach for an introductory lesson.

Website(s)

NOVA - Electric Heart

Related Academic Standards

New York State

S.MS.LS.1.1 Students who demonstrate understanding can plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that living things are made of cells; either one cell or many different numbers and types of cells.

S.MS.LS.1.3 Students who demonstrate understanding Construct an explanation supported by evidence for how the body is composed of interacting systems consisting of cells, tissues, and organs working together to maintain homeostasis.

MST4.I.LE.1.2 Students explain the functioning of the major human organ systems and their interactions.

MST4.C.LE.LE.1.2 Students describe and explain the structures and functions of the human body at different organizational levels (e.g., systems, tissues, cells, organelles).