❤️ Your Heart
Your amazing heart at work!
Your Heart helps your body by pumping blood all around your body.
🔬 How Your Heart Works
Your heart is a muscle about the size of your fist, sitting in your chest between your lungs. It has four rooms called chambers. The right side pumps blood to your lungs to pick up oxygen, and the left side pumps that fresh blood out to your whole body through tubes called arteries. Blood comes back to the heart through veins, and the journey starts again.
🌟 Fun Facts about Heart
- Your heart beats about 100,000 times every single day!
- The heart pumps blood that carries oxygen to every part of your body.
- Exercise, like running and jumping, makes your heart strong.
- You can feel your heartbeat by placing your hand gently on your chest.
💚 Taking Care of Your Heart
Your heart gets stronger when you are active, so running, swimming, dancing and climbing are all good for it. Eating fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and not having too many salty or sugary snacks, also helps. Try counting your heartbeats for one minute while resting, then again after jumping, and see how much faster your heart works.
🧠 Quick Quiz!
What is the main job of your heart?
🏫 Classroom Activity
Have children feel their heartbeat, then do 20 jumping jacks and feel it again, talking about how exercise makes the heart beat faster.
🏠 Homeschool Activity
Use a paper cup as a pretend stethoscope to listen to a heartbeat, and talk about how the heart pumps blood all day and night.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How many times does your heart beat in a day?
About 100,000 times.
What does your heart pump around your body?
Blood that carries oxygen.
How does exercise help your heart?
It makes the heart strong.
How can you feel your heartbeat?
By placing your hand gently on your chest.
What activities help kids learn about the heart?
Feeling your heartbeat before and after jumping jacks, listening with a cup, drawing a heart, or coloring a printable worksheet.