7. endocardium, 8. capillaries, 9. aorta, 10. mitral. Your students will have fun with the Just for Fun Heart Quiz from the American Heart Association. The Healthy Heart Quiz is more scientific in nature and requires students to answer a series of questions about heart health and the body, and it corrects them instantly with explanations of the answers. Synapse Publishing Collection of Murmurs, Defects, and Others provides audio files of heart sounds that are both normal and abnormal for various reasons. Visit Heart Murmurs for a simple explanation of heart murmurs and how they are treated.
Doctors have excellent ways to study the heart in-depth without causing their patients discomfort.
Your students will investigate some of those means with Library Images in Echocardiography . Here students can examine pictures like those that cardiologists see every day and use them to try to solve some very difficult questions. Muscle Alive is a program that illustrates how heart muscle functions, and Cool Stuff is another portion of the same Web site. The movies require the Apple Quicktime plug-in that is available for most operating systems. Students will use the Web resources Familiar Quotations , Quotation Search , and Quotation Center's Search Facility .