Summary
Your heart is a hard-working muscle about the size of your fist. Chloe and Nurb show how it pumps blood all through your body, delivering oxygen and nutrients to every part and carrying waste away, beat after beat, day and night.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
Watch, then talk it over.
- What does your heart move around your body, and why does that matter?
- The heart is a muscle. What job does that muscle do all day and night?
- What do the blood vessels do that connect to your heart?
- How do you think your heartbeat changes when you run, and why?
Quick work-a-long
Words to know: heart, blood, pump, blood vessels, oxygen
Try it: Find your pulse on your wrist or neck and count the beats for 15 seconds. Then hop in place 20 times and count again — write down what changed.