The Circulatory System

ScienceOrganisms & Life ProcessesAges 10–11

Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels, and blood

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Trace blood through a loop and distinguish vessels by direction.

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Ask the learner to explain one prerequisite idea before starting. If uncertain, revisit it; graph order is not learner readiness.

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Check readiness rather than assuming source graph order establishes attainment.

Instructions

Use circulation-S.svg and supplied cards. No pulse collection or health records.

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partial: Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels, and blood
Bounded objective: Trace blood through a loop and distinguish vessels by direction. Simplified circuit without chamber/valve assessment; no physiological observation.
partial: Name the main components: heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, blood
Heart/vessels/capillaries/blood named in simplified loop.
partial: Describe the heart as a pump that pushes blood around the body in a continuous loop
Pump and return flow traced schematically.
partial: Explain that blood carries oxygen and nutrients to cells and removes waste products like carbon dioxide
Oxygen/nutrients delivery and carbon dioxide removal described, no physiological measurement.
partial: Can {{name}} explain what the heart does, why we have blood vessels throughout the body, and what blood actually carries?
Try offers taught-content-recall for the bounded objective; it does not establish every part of the source assessment. Simplified circuit without chamber/valve assessment; no physiological observation.

Simplified circuit without chamber/valve assessment; no physiological observation.

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Trace blood through a loop and distinguish vessels by direction.

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Name the main components: heart, arteries, veins, capillaries, blood
Describe the heart as a pump that pushes blood around the body in a continuous loop
Explain that blood carries oxygen and nutrients to cells and removes waste products like carbon dioxide

“Can your child explain what the heart does, why we have blood vessels throughout the body, and what blood actually carries?”

Standards

uk-nc-2013:Y6.Sci.A.1