The Human Heart

What is the human heart?

7th Grade Level
By: Zenia Avelar
Thematic Unit Planning Matrix
Content
or
Subject
Area

Essential
Questions

Reading What do
you think
the heart
does?
Can you
name some
parts of the
heart?

Centers
(Activities)

Students will
read an
article about
the human
heart and
understand
the meaning
of the parts
of the heart.
Human
Heart:
Anatomy,
Function,
and facts.
http://www.li
vescience.co
m/34655-hu
man-heart.ht
ml.

Technology
Assessment
Student
Integration
and/or Rubric Products or
(Must include at
Scale
Portfolio
least 2 Web 2.0
tools)
Students will fill in
Students will
Students will
blank with the parts of take an
turn in their
the heart matched with assessment
completed
their meaning on a
using google
worksheets.
document created on forms to check
by word provided to their
them. Student will also understanding of
label the parts of the the article. The
heart on the picture of grading scale
the heart provided to would be on a
them created on
scale of 1-10.
publisher.

Standards:
The ISTE NETS and Performance Indicators
for Teachers and Students
TEKS

Teachers
1. Facilitate and inspire student learning
and creativity
Teachers use their knowledge of subject
matter,
teaching and learning, and technology to
facilitate
experiences that advance student
learning,
creativity, and innovation in both
face-to-face
and virtual environments.
Students
1. Creativity and innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking,
construct
knowledge, and develop innovative
products and
processes using technology

TEKS
110.19. English Language Arts and
Reading, Grade 7, Beginning with School
Year 2009-2010. Reading/Vocabulary
Development. Students understand new
vocabulary and use it when reading and
writing.
How many
Students will be Students will
Students will be Students
Teachers
parts do you able to count
given
a
rubric
of
create a MindMap
end product
1. Facilitate and inspire student learning
think the heart the number of
what the mind
using bubbl.us, to map should
will be their
and creativity
has?
chambers,
show
the
number
Mindmap.
Teachers use their knowledge of subject
How do you valves, and
include, and will
of parts the heart be for a total of
matter,
think your
how many
pulse works layers the outer has in total, and
10 points. and
teaching and learning, and technology to
with your
wall consists
will
be
giving
a
the chambers,
facilitate
heart?
of. They will
quiz on google
valves,
and
the
experiences that advance student
aslo learn how
forms to test
learning,
to check their layers of the outer their knowledge
wall
consists
of.
creativity, and innovation in both
pulse rate.
on the parts of
the heart used
face-to-face
on the mind
and virtual environments.
map.
Students
1. Creativity and innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking,
construct
knowledge, and develop innovative
products and
processes using technology
TEKS
111.27. Grade 7, Adopted 2012.(1)
Mathematical process standards. The
student uses mathematical processes to
acquire and demonstrate mathematical
understanding. The student is expected
to:(G) display, explain, and justify
mathematical ideas and arguments using
precise mathematical language in written
or oral communication.

Math

Science What is the

function of
the heart?
How does the
pump the
blood?

Students will
learn the way
the blood
pumps through
the heart. They
will also
understand the
function of the
heart.

Students will
create Multimedia
Poster using
Glogster. To
include a video of
pumping of the
blood throughout
the heart. The
poster will also
include the main
functions and
pictures of the
heart.
Students will
create a word
cloud using
Tagxedo of all the
parts of the heart.

Students will Students end Teachers

product will be
be graded
1. Facilitate and inspire student learning
the Multimedia
based on the Poster of the
and creativity
rubric which Heart and the
Teachers use their knowledge of subject
contains 10 word cloud.
matter,
points total
teaching and learning, and technology to
that would be
facilitate
given if the
experiences that advance student
multimedia
learning,
poster and
creativity, and innovation in both
word cloud
face-to-face
includes what
and virtual environments.
was asked
Students
for.
1. Creativity and innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking,
construct
knowledge, and develop innovative
products and
processes using technology
TEKS
112.19. Science, Grade 7, Beginning
with School Year 2010-2011.Organisms
and environments. The student knows
that living systems at all levels of
organization demonstrate the
complementary nature of structure and
function. The student is expected to: (B)
identify the main functions of the systems
of the human organism, including the
circulatory, respiratory, skeletal,
muscular, digestive, excretory,
reproductive, integumentary, nervous,
and endocrine systems