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The Circulatory System: Your Heart and Blood
Task #1: The Heart Pump and Blood
Read the pages 2 and 3 from the article "Your Heart and the Circulatory System" on the big green box. Use this article to answer questions #1-5 using this website in your notebooks. Use the "What's Blood"
article to answer question #6.
1. What is the function of the Circulatory System?
2. Where are the Atrium and what they do?
3. Where are the Ventricles and what they do?
4. What are Arteries?
5. What are Veins?
6. Explain what Blood is. (Go to "What's Blood?" article icon above) Include plasma, RBC, white blood cells, and platelets.
Read the pages 2 and 3 from the article "Your Heart and the Circulatory System" on the big green box. Use this article to answer questions #1-5 using this website in your notebooks. Use the "What's Blood"
article to answer question #6.
1. What is the function of the Circulatory System?
2. Where are the Atrium and what they do?
3. Where are the Ventricles and what they do?
4. What are Arteries?
5. What are Veins?
6. Explain what Blood is. (Go to "What's Blood?" article icon above) Include plasma, RBC, white blood cells, and platelets.
Task 2. Blood Circulation
Watch the You Tube video. What is the path of blood circulation through the body? Remember that blood enters the heart through the Right Atrium. Use at least THREE sentences to explain.
Watch the You Tube video. What is the path of blood circulation through the body? Remember that blood enters the heart through the Right Atrium. Use at least THREE sentences to explain.
Task 3. Blood Typing
There are 4 basic blood types A, B, AB, and O. Check out the website to the left.
1. What happens if a patient receives the wrong blood type?
Use the Blood Type Article OR the App (below) to answer #2-4...
2. What blood types can an O- person donate to and receive from?
3. What blood types can an A+ person donate to and receive from?
4. What blood types can an AB- person donate to and receive from?
There are 4 basic blood types A, B, AB, and O. Check out the website to the left.
1. What happens if a patient receives the wrong blood type?
Use the Blood Type Article OR the App (below) to answer #2-4...
2. What blood types can an O- person donate to and receive from?
3. What blood types can an A+ person donate to and receive from?
4. What blood types can an AB- person donate to and receive from?
Task #4: Draw, color and Label the heart and draw arrows to show how blood travels. (Textbook page 200)