Heart Art and Other Heart Lesson Plans and Projects

Lesson Plans

Grade 1 Lesson Plans – Heart Health (PDF) – From how the heart works to how to keep it healthy, this wonderful resource has a lesson plan for everything. There are plenty of fun activities for class, snack time, and even for home. 

Grade 2 Heart Lesson Package (PDF) – It’s never too soon to start learning about how your heart works. Students can learn about the structure, function, and necessary nutrition for a healthy heart in this self-contained lesson plan, provided by the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Grades 3 & 4 – Your Beating Heart: Taking your own pulse can be a lot of fun. This lesson, provided by the National Library of Medicine, teaches kids how to take their own pulse and helps them learn about the circulatory system.

Grades K-5: Circulatory System Lesson Plan: Heart Adventure Challenge Course

Here’s to Your Healthy Heart! – Nutrition is essential to a health lifestyle.

Circulatory System Lesson Ideas – The heart is an important part of the circulatory system. Brainpop educators has a great lesson that can introduce kids to the human heart, how it works, and how the circulatory system works to make blood flow through the body.  

Print Outs

Heart Word Games (PDF) – Try out these heart-themed word games from the American Heart Association.

Human Heart Coloring Page – It can be tricky to remember what arteries and veins are. This Crayola coloring page provides a numbered coloring guide to help you see the difference between the two.

Label the Heart – Think you know the heart inside and out? Test your skills with this printable, which has left blank spaces for you to label the parts of the heart.

Labeled Heart Graph – This picture has all the parts of the heart labeled, and it shows how the blood moves through the heart and it could be a very good study tool for you to review at home.

Related Links

Blood Flow Through the Body

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