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LESSON 2

Tour of the Heartland

Locate a diagram of a human circulatory system, including the heart. The diagram
should be a cutaway so you can see where blood enters the heart and how it moves from
chamber to chamber within the heart, out to the lungs, back to the heart, and so on.

Chronicle the Path of Blood Through the Body

Write an adventurous short story about a drop of blood and what it encounters on its
way through the body, the lungs, and the heart. Start in the capillaries of a foot and follow
the drop of blood as it tours the body back to the same spot on the foot. Illustrate your story
with a diagram of the body, showing the location of the drop with a You are here arrow.
On each card, describe where the drop is, what it is doing there, where it has been, and
where it is going.
You may draw your diagram on a large piece of poster board, or you could do a chalk
outline of your own body on a length of butcher paper. Draw some major vessels through
the heart and lungs, to and from the head, the arms, and the legs. Remember to include a
cutaway of the heart in your diagram. Write your story on note cards that you can tape to
the poster board by the arrow pointing to the location of the drop of blood. Include at least
one card for the capillaries, one card for the body, one for the lungs, and three for the heart.
Use the remaining space on this page to outline your story.

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