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Terese Martorella
The VAK Planning Organizer 3 Station Rotation: Sixth Grade Science
Lesson: Heart Smart
Teacher One: Margaret Holbrook; 6th grade science teacher
Teacher Two: Terese Martorella
Teacher 1
Teacher 2
Independent
Station
Visual
Display picture of the heart
and explain that students
will assist the teacher in
created a diagram of the
heart by labeling the various
parts of the heart and the
circulatory system.
Conduct live
dissection of animal
heart obtained from
local butcher shop.
The teacher will
dissect heart
lengthwise to expose
as many chambers of
the heart as possible.
The students
draw/record their
observations.
Teacher will guide
discovery of upper
and lower chambers
of the heart in
addition to the blood
vessels.
The students will utilize
the computer to watch
an online video about
the circulatory system
which is available from
www.kidshelath.org.
After viewing the video,
The students will
complete a Venn
diagram comparing and
contrasting the
information from the
video with their own
observations.
Auditory
Using the Smartboard, the
teacher will display a video
demonstrating an
Echocardiogram from
youtube entitled Tests and
Procedures:Echocardiogram
from CardioSmart. The
students will view and listen
to the cardiologist explain
the test. The teacher will
post an article about heart
murmurs on the Smartboard
and the students will listen
to someone reading the
article. The teacher will
The teacher will
facilitate a readers
workshop of the text:
The Magic School
Bus: Inside the
Human Heart ( the
entire book will take
several days to
complete, the teacher
has already
determined stopping
points) The teacher
will begin the lesson
by having the
students participate
Students can select
one of the following
options: listen to the
“Heart Song” on the
MP3 player or visit
the computer to listen
to the National
Geographic Video
entitled “Mysteries of
Life with Tim and
Moby.” After
completing their
chosen option, the
students will create
their own lyrics to
Auditory-continued
Kinesthetic
explain to the group that
they will select a partner to
discuss the information
learned from these two
sources. The teacher will
ask for volunteers to present
their discussion. The
teacher will facilitate the
completion of a Venn
diagram to display the
results of each partnerships
discussions.
in the NUA strategy of
Dancing Definitions.
Dancing Definitions is
a strategy in which
the teacher displays
the key vocabulary
words and the
students discuss the
definition and create
an action, a
performance, or a
song to represent the
word.
use in a song/rap that
they will create and
perform.
Discuss the term heart rate
and model how to calculate
heart rate. After modeling,
the teacher will facilitate
guided practice by having
the students work in
partners. Each pair will
calculate each other heart
rate during various activities
(running, walking, jumping,
sitting, etc) The pairs will
record the data collected on
a graph.
Review “heart
healthy” foods.
Divide the group into
two teams to play the
Heart Healthy Family
Feud. One
representative from
each team will come
to the front of the
room. The teacher
reads a
statement/question
from the heart healthy
card stack. The
student who thinks
he/she knows the
answer can ring the
appropriate team bell
and provide the
answer to the teacher.
If no one answers,
correctly, the original
participants can tag a
teammate for
assistance. The team
with the most healthy
heart points wins.
Create a clay model
of the heart using
modeling clay.
Students can use any
classroom resources
(displays, their own
notes, observations,
etc.) to create their
model. The students
will label the
components of their
model to demonstrate
their understanding
of the heart.
Time for rotation: 45 minutes/ person responsible for rotations: T. Martorella