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Unit Overview - Circulatory System
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Essential Questions
How does the circulatory system support the needs of the body?
What Came First: (5th Grade) Compare the major systems of the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, muscular, skeletal,
cardiovascular) as it relates to their functions necessary for life.
What Comes Next: (High School Biology) Explain how homeostasis is maintained in a cell and within an organism in various
environments (including: temperature and pH). Explain ways that organisms use released energy for maintaining homeostasis (active
transport).
Enduring understanding
Important to know and do
Worth being familiar with
 Circulatory system transports blood
 Explain how the heart is responsible for
 The circulatory system works with other
throughout the body
pumping blood throughout the body
body systems to maintain homeostasis
 Circulatory system carries oxygen and
 Explain how chambers in the heart pump
 Heart disease is a common disorder of
nutrients to the cells and removes waste
blood to and from lungs
the circulatory system
products including carbon dioxide.
 Explain the role of red blood cells, white
blood cells, platelets and plasma
 Summarize the roll of veins, arteries, and
capillaries transport blood
 Define the relationship between the
respiratory and the circulatory systems
Vocabulary to master
 White Blood Cell
 Ventricle
 Heart
 Atrium
 Vein
 Valve
 Circulatory
 Artery
System
 Red Blood
 Platelets
 Capillary
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Cell
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Plasma
Hemoglobin
Blood Pressure