The Heart's Journey: Circulatory System Slides for Grade 4
A slide deck of about 20 slides that takes 4th graders through the heart's four chambers, its valves, and the pathways blood follows through the pulmonary artery, pulmonary veins, and aorta. It uses kid-friendly speaker notes, pulse-finding and other hands-on engagement activities, and a red-for-oxygenated and blue-for-deoxygenated heart diagram to make the left and right sides easy to track.
“A slide deck to teach about the cirulatory system. How blood enters the heart, how many chambers there are, how the left side is on the right of the body and the right is the left. Show the valves and name them, the pulmonary artery and where it goes and then the pulmonary veins leading back from the lungs and then also showing that the blood then exits the heart through the aorta. I also want to show the oxygenated side in red in a diagram of the heart and the deoxigenated blood side in blue if possible. I would like as much 9 year old kid friendly info as possible while teaching the previously stated components. Thank you”
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this as a whole-class 45-minute lesson, opening with the pulse challenge on Slide 2 so students feel their heartbeat before the diagrams appear.
- Discussion question: Why do you think the left side of the heart is thicker and stronger than the right side? Follow up by asking students to trace with a finger where a drop of blood goes after it leaves the lungs.
- Scaffold for struggling readers: Provide a blank heart outline and have students label the chambers and valves with the color-coded key as the slides progress, and use a "left is right" reminder card since mirror-image orientation is often confusing.
- Extension for advanced students: Ask them to explain why the pulmonary circuit (heart to lungs) is separate from the systemic circuit (heart to body), and to predict what would happen if a valve stopped closing properly.
- Plan roughly 10 minutes for the engage and pulse activity, 25 minutes for the diagram walkthrough and valve naming, and 10 minutes for a review or exit ticket.
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Try Diffit for free“A slide deck to teach about the cirulatory system. How blood enters the heart, how many chambers there are, how the left side is on the right of the body and the right is the left. Show the valves and name them, the pulmonary artery and where it goes and then the pulmonary veins leading back from the lungs and then also showing that the blood then exits the heart through the aorta. I also want to show the oxygenated side in red in a diagram of the heart and the deoxigenated blood side in blue if possible. I would like as much 9 year old kid friendly info as possible while teaching the previously stated components. Thank you”
Teacher Guide & Tips
- Use this as a whole-class 45-minute lesson, opening with the pulse challenge on Slide 2 so students feel their heartbeat before the diagrams appear.
- Discussion question: Why do you think the left side of the heart is thicker and stronger than the right side? Follow up by asking students to trace with a finger where a drop of blood goes after it leaves the lungs.
- Scaffold for struggling readers: Provide a blank heart outline and have students label the chambers and valves with the color-coded key as the slides progress, and use a "left is right" reminder card since mirror-image orientation is often confusing.
- Extension for advanced students: Ask them to explain why the pulmonary circuit (heart to lungs) is separate from the systemic circuit (heart to body), and to predict what would happen if a valve stopped closing properly.
- Plan roughly 10 minutes for the engage and pulse activity, 25 minutes for the diagram walkthrough and valve naming, and 10 minutes for a review or exit ticket.
The Heart's Journey: Circulatory System Slides for Grade 4
A slide deck of about 20 slides that takes 4th graders through the heart's four chambers, its valves, and the pathways blood follows through the pulmonary artery, pulmonary veins, and aorta. It uses kid-friendly speaker notes, pulse-finding and other hands-on engagement activities, and a red-for-oxygenated and blue-for-deoxygenated heart diagram to make the left and right sides easy to track.
What is Diffit?
Teachers use Diffit to get quality materials for their unique classrooms. Adjust difficulty, add scaffolds, or change the topic to get started.
Try Diffit for free