- The Heart: An Online Exploration - http://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
From the Science Learning Network, visitors will learn about the heart, blood vessels, circulatory system development, cardiovascular health, and a history of heart medicine.
- HeartPoint - http://www.heartpoint.com/
A multimedia site, showing animations of what different behaviors and lifestyles will do to one's circulatory system. Offers health tips and food recommendations.
- NOVA Online: Electric Heart - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/
This is the story of a handful of brilliant, obsessed surgeons and researchers who pursued the target of a practical artificial heart for decades. Includes heart facts, an overview of a heart transplant, and artificial heart technology.
- To Heal A Heart - http://www.pbs.org/healaheart/
A PBS program about preventing heart disease. Includes frequently asked questions, an overview of heart disease, risk factors, pet scans, lesson plans, and a bibliography.
- The Circulatory System - http://infozone.imcpl.org/kids_circ.htm
View a diagram of the major arteries and veins in the human body.
- Circulatory System - http://www.vtaide.com/png/blood-mcq.htm
Multiple-choice quiz with crossword puzzle.
- The Heart and Circulation - http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/content/4/biology/abpi/heart/
A well illustrated interactive educational resource about the heart and heart disease. Includes a quiz.
- Blood: The River of Life - http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115080
Thinkquest site provides detailed information with graphics and concise explanation about the workings of the human blood and the circulatory system. Includes safety tips to follow at home as well as interactive forums.
- Way Cool Surgery - http://www.waycoolsurgery.com/
Includes video clips of each step of open heart surgery, a look at the surgical team, a healthy heart, the patient, and medical careers.
- How the Heart Works: The Heart House - http://www.childrensheartinstitute.org/educate/heartwrk/hearthse.htm
From the Children's Heart Institute, a diagram comparing a heart to a house.
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