The Heart: Links

Watch Exploring the Heart, an animated video about the journey of a red blood cell as it goes through the chambers and valves of the heart, making deliveries to all parts of the body.

The Texas Heart Institute has a great site for kids! Anatomy Animations, facts, coloring pages, quizzes, experiments, virtual microscope and more. Check it out!

KidsHealth offers extensive Heart information for Kids and Teens.

For younger students, print out this coloring page that will help you remember the difference between arteries and veins. For older students, the Children's Heart Institute has a heart diagram and coloring page with labels. And if you're ready for a challenge, check out Arizona State University's heart image and test yourself as you identify the parts of the heart.

Take a look at these animations from the Children's Heart Institute:
• Blood Flow Slide Show
• How The Heart Pumps
• The Aorta
• How Blue Blood Becomes Red

Your fingers can feel your heartbeat, but can you "see" your heart beat? You can with this activity from Zoom!

The Franklin Institute opened its Giant Heart exhibit in 1954. Its online resources are available at The Heart: The Engine of Life.

Watch a pumping heart.

Women's and Children's Health Network has a nice, concise page on the heart and how to keep it healthy. Check out their collection of “Heart-y Sayings.”

Enjoy this fun video about How The Heart Works.

PBS's NOVA has produced several shows on the heart. “Cut to the Heart” details what in 1997 was a new and controversial surgery. Highlights at the companion website include Pioneers of Heart Surgery and a photo collection of troubled hearts. In the interactive feature Map of the Human Heart, you can see exactly how your heart pumps blood throughout your body.

“Electric Heart” chronicles the quest to create an artificial heart, and the surgeons and researchers who worked to bring it into being. The website features an interview with Dr. O. H. Frazier, one of the chief artificial heart researchers and an interactive where you can conduct your own virtual heart transplant procedure!!! Have Fun!!