The Heart & Blood
Understand that the heart is a muscle that pumps blood around the body through tubes called blood vessels, and that we can feel our heartbeat by placing a hand on our chest or fingers on our wrist
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“Can your child find their own pulse on their wrist or neck, and explain that it’s their heart pumping blood?”
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- Activity. Understand that the heart is a muscle that pumps blood around the body through tubes called blood vessels, and that we can feel our heartbeat by placing a hand on our chest or fingers on our wrist
What to notice. Locate their own heartbeat by touch (chest or pulse point) • State that the heart pumps blood through the body continuously • Describe blood vessels as tubes that carry blood to every part of the body
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Can your child find their own pulse on their wrist or neck, and explain that it’s their heart pumping blood?
Understand that the heart is a muscle that pumps blood around the body through tubes called blood vessels, and that we can feel our heartbeat by placing a hand on our chest or fingers on our wrist
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- Locate their own heartbeat by touch (chest or pulse point)
- State that the heart pumps blood through the body continuously
- Describe blood vessels as tubes that carry blood to every part of the body
“Can your child find their own pulse on their wrist or neck, and explain that it’s their heart pumping blood?”
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- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- The Human Body
- Age range
- Ages 5–7