First Name _________________________________________________________________________ Last Name _________________________________________________________________________ Teacher _________________________________________________________________________ HAVE A HEART!  February is Heart Month and a good time to learn about your own heart. Explore the web site provided to learn about the heart, and then answer the questions.

 1.  Take the Heart Quiz 
http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/CSquiz.html

 2.  Your heart is a muscle about the size of your _____________________________________________________________.

 3.  What is your heart’s job?______________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________.

4.  The right side of your heart receives blood from the ________________ and sends it to the ___________________________. 
The left side of the heart receives blood from the __________________ and sends it to the _____________________________.

5.  What are the top two chambers of the heart? _______________________________________________________________

What are the bottom two chambers of the heart? ______________________________________________________________

6.  What is the movement of the blood through the heart and around the body called?___________________________________.
How long does it take to pump blood to every cell? _____________________________________________________________.

7.  Find your pulse on the inside of your wrist directly in line with your thumb.  Count the beats for 15 seconds, and
multiply by 4 to find out how many times your heart beats per minute at rest.  Write down your beats per minute- ________________.       

8.  How long should you be active each day? _________________________________________________________________

9.  How do you keep your heart happy?
a) _________________________________________________________________________________________________

b) __________________________________________________________________________________________________

c) __________________________________________________________________________________________________

d) __________________________________________________________________________________________________

e) __________________________________________________________________________________________________

http://kidshealth.org/kid/cancer_center/HTBW/heart.html

Learn More: Go to The Virtual Body at http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp  and choose -- English.  Click Human Heart and learn
about the parts of the heart.

Other sites include: 
http://texasheart.org/HIC/Anatomy/Anatomy.cfm
http://www.smm.org/heart/heart/top.html