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Science & Technology IX | Learning Module/Activity 3
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM | September: WEEK 2

Learning Objectives:
At the end of the activity, students are expected to:
a. discuss the functions of the circulatory system.
b. identify and distinguish the parts of the circulatory system.
c. discuss the flow of blood from the heart to the body and to the lungs and vice versa.
d. make a research on the different diseases associated with the circulatory system and its
effects.

OVERVIEW
The need for a Transport System
Imagine what will happen if you consume food but never get rid of waste? What if you and your neighbours
take out the garbage but the collectors never come to pick it up. Your neighborhood will be like a garbage dump with
an overwhelming stench and unsanitary air. Can you imagine also if you and your neighbors are disabled that in times
of calamities none of you could go to the store for food or contact anyone to bring you food?
Imagine your body as a community and that each cell in your body is a neighbourhood. If food (nutrients)
cannot be delivered to each home in the neighborhood, the “the neighbours” (the cells) would eventually die. Or, if
nutrients were available but no waste disposal service exists, conditions in each “home” and eventually the entire
“neighbourhood” would become unsanitary and unhealthy. That is why every cell must get nutrients and dispose of
waste through the circulatory system.
Nutrients and oxygen should be delivered to every cell in the body. Therefore, oxygen and food materials
need to be distributed to the cells, and wastes need to be removed with sufficient speed. In this case, a transport
system carries substances from one part of the body to another. This process of transport in animals is carried out by
the circulatory system.

Check Your Awareness

In a loop-a-word below, look and encircle the words that you think are parts of the circulatory system.
A L V E O L I A B C D E F G H J K L N F F A W F V G N F D F
D Q W E R T Y A A S F R G D F A O R T A A S D G D B H N J J
C A S D F G H I D F B H B K C S A D Q W X D Z C V H N H N V
F D H D F G H R A S C V F G B H N J N J S E L O I R E T R A
B D E F D D F T A S F F C V B N M S D S F G N J B C Z X C L
G C A P I L L A R I E S Z X C V B E F H N B V X E W Q A X V
H D R E D B L O O D C E L L S X V P R B J J D S D R F G X E
N E J D G H B H N D E E H F D F F T E S S J S N C D C Z Z S
J D B Z X P L A T E L E T S Z C C U Y H M N B I F V C D S A
M F D Z X C S E Q W E R T Y U I O M A S D T A E B T R A E H
J V D A X Z V B D A S D F G H J K L Z X C V B V Q W E R T Y
C F R Z F B G B O Q W E R B N J M K G G H J K N X Z A A C C
Z F F C B H J J O A S F G W H I T E B L O O D C E L L S X C
Z V E N T R I C L E S Y I O P L K M N B V C X Z A A S D F G
S F G F D V G B B L O O D V E S S E L F G S Z V F B G N G H
Name: __________________________________ Date: ______________________
Grade&Section: __________________________ Score: ____________________
 Let’s Try This!
Color the heart below based on their corresponding number. Then, answer that question that follows.

1 - RED

2 - BLUE

3 - BROWN

4 - YELLOW

1. What is the function possessing by the color red part of the heart?
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2. How about the function of the color blue part of the heart?
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3. What do you call to the middle part of the heart (number 4)? Then, cite its purpose.
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4. What is the purpose of the bicuspid and tricuspid valve at the middle of number 2 and 3?
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I Can Do it!
Name: __________________________________ Date: ______________________
Grade&Section: __________________________ Score: ____________________
 BasedEnhance Your
on the discussion, Ability
label the parts of the circulatory system below.

Based on what I’ve understand, fill in the blanks using the terms below.
valves exchange arteries veins contracts capillaries oxygen wastes nutrients

The function of the circulatory system is to transport ____________ and ____________ to cells and carry
____________ away from cells to the organs responsible for eliminating them from the body. Its main organ is the
heart. The heart is a muscular pump. When the heart ____________, it produces pressure on the blood in the
circulatory system. This pressure pushes blood through the body. The body travels away from the heart in vessels
called ____________. It returns to the heart through vessels called ____________. To stop blood from flowing
backwards, flexible flaps of tissue called ____________ are found throughout the circulatory system in the heart and
veins. Arteries and veins are connected by tiny, thin-walled vessels called ____________. These very small vessels
are in close contact with the organs and tissues of the body. The ____________ of nutrients, wastes, oxygen and
carbon dioxide occur between tissues and the blood through the walls of these small vessels.

Enhance My Skills
On Blood: Draw the structure of the formed elements of blood. Then, cite the differences and the focus of their
functions.
DRAWING

Red Blood Cell White Blood Cell Platelet

DIFFERENCES/FUNCTIONS

Name: __________________________________ Date: ______________________

Grade&Section: __________________________ Score: ____________________
 Critical Thinking
Read, analyze and answer the following questions.
1. A boy met an accident. He cut a large blood vessel in his hand. Every few seconds, the blood would spurt out.
What does this tell you about the kind of blood vessel that was cut? Explain your answer.
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2. To determine if a person has an infection, doctors require patients to undergo blood tests where the number of
blood cells are counted and examined. Explain why such a count id useful?
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Wrap It Up!
Imagine that you can ride on a red blood cell and you are going on a trip around the heart. Fill out the diagram using
the words in the box to show the flow of blood.

left atrium left ventricle tricuspid valve bicuspid valve right atrium
right ventricle pulmonary arteries aorta vena cava lungs pulmonary
veins

oxygenated blood is then through which blood is

Deoxygenated blood pumped back to the heart then pumped to the rest
passes through the through the of the ody

carry the blood to the and through the

into the into the

where the then to the

and travels through the and

and

My Generalization
Answer the following questions.
1. Why do we need a transport system?
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Name: __________________________________ Date: ______________________
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2. How is the circulatory system
Grade&Section: __________________________important to maintaining life? Score: ____________________
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