Launch the interactive Heart from the Internet (You will need Macromedia Shockwave.)

Or download your own copy to keep (2.41MB)

Using Heart you can teach:

• which sides of the heart pump the blood to the body and to the lungs

• how the blood oxygen level differs on the right and left sides of the heart

• how ECG represents the heartbeat

• how the heart functions as a double pump

• how the chambers and the valves work in harmony

• how exercise affects heartbeat rate

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