This unit teaches young children about the human heart. Students will learn how to have a healthy heart. They also research the history of the heart shape. The unit ends with a charitable, "heartfelt" event.

• Be able to diagram the human heart, following the blood flow in and out
• Be familiar with the terms having to do with the heart
• Compare and contrast the heartbeats per minute while resting and taking part in different exercises
• Identify exercises that promote a healthy heart
• Identify healthy habits, including healthy eating habits
• Create posters promoting healthy hearts
• Research the history of the heart shape
• Create a work of art using a paper heart
• Write a Valentine’s Day poem about a classmate

Lesson 1: What Makes a Healthy Heart?

Lesson 2: Spread the Love

Culminating Activity

At the end of this unit, the students will participate in a charitable event (examples: decorating heart cookies at an orphanage or nursing home with the residents and reading them poems or doing a heart craft), as well as their classroom Valentine’s Party. Our school also has a “Jump Rope for Heart” day around this time of year.