Children get to know the heart and circulation early in primary school (around age 6-7) so you can use fun, visual and simple teaching methods. There are a few simple tips you can use to make sure kids take in all the information. Since traffic is a fairly large topic, choose homework or homework in addition to this lesson so that your students can do their own research at home.
Start with the basics. Have each child draw their own heart on a piece of paper. Have your students write in different colored pencils all the things they think the heart does. Encourage them to be creative, even if their ideas are not right. This will make them think and encourage them to learn more about it.
When all of your students have finished drawing, tell them that the heart’s main role is to keep us alive by pumping blood around our bodies. This is called circulation. Then begin to explain the circulation, always returning to the familiar picture of the heart.
Use drawings, diagrams and coloring. Give each student a picture of a human with a circulatory system drawn inside the body. Use thick tubes for the arteries and thin tubes for the veins. Tell students that the human body is like a road map, that arteries are like highways and veins are like streets, that capillaries are like little alleys, and that blood vessels are all different paths that blood can take. borrow, just like a car on the road. Ask your students if they know what colored blood is. Tell them that the blood contains “important things” such as food, oxygen, and even garbage.
Keep the terms simple and ask students lots of questions. Have them color the veins blue and the arteries red. Explain that the arteries carry blood containing oxygen away from the heart and therefore will be colored red. The veins carry oxygen-free blood to the heart, and will therefore be colored blue.
Give your students a homework assignment. Have them draw the heart. Explain the four chambers of the heart, but only briefly. Tell students that for their homework they should go home, research the four rooms, and draw a color diagram of the heart with the functions of each room. Asking students to do their own research will help the learning process. The next day, review the diagrams and explain in more detail what the four chambers of the heart do.
Use a stethoscope to allow each child to listen to their own heart. While they are doing this, explain that in some animals the heart beats very slowly, while in others it beats very quickly. Use a table to show the different heart rates in the animal kingdom. If you don’t have a stethoscope, show your students how to find their pulse (on their neck or wrist), then tell them to count how many beats their heart beats per minute. It will fascinate them, and you will probably have children who will tell you that their hearts beats 20 times per minute, while others will say that their hearts beats 200 times per minute.
Design a PowerPoint presentation. It’s a simple way to explain traffic visually and simply. Present the information on separate slides. Use one slide to get information about the heart, one to get information about the blood and what is in it, and another to get information about blood cells. Open your PowerPoint program and select “New Project”. Select “New Slide” for each slide you want to add. Text boxes will appear on each slide and you can double click them to add text and images.