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Map of the Human Heart Day and night, the muscles of your heart contract and relax to pump blood throughout your body. In the Step Thru below, see the complicated path the blood takes as it moves in and out of the heart. Step Thru Animation Oxygen-poor blood (shown in blue) flows from the body into the right atrium. Anatomy Do right and left seem backward? aortasuperior vena cavaright atriuminferior vena cavapulmonary valvetricuspid valveright ventriclemitral valveleft ventriclepulmonary arteryaortic valveleft atrium Heart Facts Put your hand on your heart. Hold out your hand and make a fist. Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose. Feel your pulse by placing two fingers at pulse points on your neck or wrists. Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime—that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers. Related:  Science and ICT

Zybright | Freebie Library Fun freebies! My Incredible Body is a dynamic anatomy app: just for kids! Fill out the form to the right to get our fun free anatomy activities, which match up perfectly with the content presented in the app. It's a great way to keep kids learning! NEW! Don't have the app? My Incredible Body lets kids investigate, experience, and learn human anatomy in a fun, dynamic new way. Get it now! Keep Wild Animals Wild Online Activities World Map | Ages 5-7 » Explore the world to learn about how animals are specially suited to live in their habitats. World Map | Ages 8-10 » Discover how the buying and selling of wild animals and their parts (wildlife trade) affects animals around the world. Backyard Naturalist | Ages 5-7 » Wild animals live all around us. Buyer Beware | Ages 8-10 » Be a responsible shopper by thinking carefully about each product you want to buy, and choose products that do not harm wild animals. Helping Wild Animals Stay Wild | Ages 11-14 » There are many ways we can help animals affected by wildlife trade.

Home | Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide Discovering Gale Crater: A VR experience from the L.A. Times Best experienced over a wifi connection Loading initial data Controls: W / S: Forwards / Backwards A / D: Left / Right R / F: Up / Down Q / E: Roll left / right Up / Down: Pitch up / down Left / Right: Yaw left / right Shift: Speed up By Armand Emamdjomeh Take a virtual reality audio tour of the Gale Crater, including geological features and areas that appear to have been carved by flowing water. Headphones recommended: Take a virtual reality audio tour of the Gale Crater. Now it's your turn to explore Instructions Hold the phone horizontally, tilt and rotate to navigate. Tap to start and stop movement. Use button to start and stop tour Press Go and place phone in virtual reality device once split screen is displayed. W, A, S, D move forward, backwards, left and right. Click feature labels to hear audio. About this project Data was provided by the Mars Science Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Read about how we created the experience. Audio Narration by Dr. IntroCredits

For Educators Search Educational Resources Search hundreds of resources by subject, grade level, type and keyword. These lesson plans and teaching materials support your STEM curriculum. NASA Wavelength A digital collection of Earth and space science resources for educators of all levels – from elementary to college, to out-of-school programs. NASA Education YouTube Channel A-Z List of Publications A-Z List of Websites Educator Resource Centers for Teaching Materials and Workshops Apps for Smartphones and Tablets NASA Spinoff NASA Spinoff profiles the best examples of technology that have been transferred from NASA research and missions into commercial products. From life-saving satellite systems to hospital robots that care for patients and more, NASA technologies benefit society. There's more space in your life than you think! Images of Change Human activities, a changing climate and natural disasters are rapidly altering the face of our planet. › Read More › Get the iPad App→ NASA App The NASA App showcases a huge collection of the latest NASA content, including images, videos on-demand, NASA Television, mission information, news & feature stories, latest tweets, ISS sighting opportunities, satellite tracking, Third Rock Radio and much more. › Learn More › Get the iPhone/iPad App → › Get the Android App → NASA Television The NASA Television App brings live and on-demand TV programming to your phone. › Get the iPhone/iPad App→ Other NASA Apps by Topic: Centers Aeronautics Station & Shuttle Solar System

Welcome to skoool.co.uk The Elements Revealed: An Interactive Periodic Table In the October 2011 issue of Scientific American, we celebrate the International Year of Chemistry. Learn more about its impact on our daily lives in our Special Report. UPDATED: 06/18/2013 In honor of the 2013 Lindau meeting, which focuses on chemistry, we have updated our interactive periodic table with links to Nature Chemistry's In Your Element essay series. Each essay tells the story of a particular element, often describing its discovery, history and eventual uses. Main Sources & More to Explore: The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Interactive by Krista Fuentes Davide Castelvecchi Davide Castelvecchi is a freelance science writer based in Rome and a contributing editor for Scientific American magazine.

Healthy Eating Welcome to the Healthy eating module for children aged 5-8 years. This module supports primary school children learning about healthy eating, as depicted by the eatwell plate and is comprised of a comprehensive Teachers' Guide and three Key Facts; Key Fact 1 - Food is a basic requirement for life; Key fact 2 - People choose different types of food; Key Fact 3 - We all need to eat a variety and balance of food to stay healthy, as depicted in the eatwell plate. The Key Facts are the key messages and skills children need to know and ensure that children's learning is coherent and progressive. Interactive activities This module is supported by four exciting activities. Make a balanced plate (The eatwell plate and its food groups.) Make a healthy lunchbox (Create a healthy lunchbox in line with The eatwell plate.) Unmuddle the meals (Investiagte a range of meals and food groups from The eatwell plate.) This module is also available in Welsh.

Jamie's Ministry of Food | Home | Jamie Oliver "I want to inspire you to get in the kitchen and cook meals for yourself and your family from scratch, whether you're a complete beginner or a good cook who likes simplicity. With some basic skills under your belt and a handful of recipes, you'll be able to prepare nutritious meals on any budget." Jamie Oliver Tower Hamlets Council join the Ministry of Food campaign to improve residents' cooking skills Thu 16th Apr 2015 10:16READ MORE Ministry of Food Bradford celebrates 5th Birthday Mon 08th Dec 2014 15:08READ MORE Ministry of Food centres proven to improve diet Mon 27th Oct 2014 11:27READ MORE Premiership clubs to kickstart cooking lessons Fri 10th Oct 2014 15:10READ MORE Click on a thumbnail to find out more. Discuss cooking and more. subject

The Earth and Beyond Welcome to The Earth and Beyond Hello, my name is Tim O'Brien. I'm an astronomer working at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Observatory. Exploding stars You may know the names of some patterns of stars (called constellations) such as Orion or the Great Bear. This picture shows Orion the Hunter and Taurus the Bull with the position of an exploded star known as the Crab Nebula. We're all made of stars Understanding why stars explode is very important because most of the chemical elements (carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and so on) were made inside stars and are spread out into space when they explode. Billions of years ago the Sun, Earth and the other planets formed out of the leftovers from one of these gigantic explosions. Learn about astronomy Exploding stars is just one example of why astronomy is important and fun. Good luck with your studies! Constellation picture from Stellarium by Fabien Chereau.

ARKive - Discover the world's most endangered species Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. As a small conservation charity, Wildscreen eventually reached the point where it could no longer financially sustain the ongoing costs of keeping Arkive free and online or invest in its much needed development. Therefore, a very hard decision was made to take the www.arkive.org website offline in February 2019.

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