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    Heart Dissection Worksheet

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    This document provides instructions for dissecting a heart. It lists the materials needed, safety precautions, and 12 steps to follow when dissecting the heart to observe the coronary arteries, chambers, valves and direction of blood flow.

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    This document provides instructions for dissecting a heart. It lists the materials needed, safety precautions, and 12 steps to follow when dissecting the heart to observe the coronary arteries, chambers, valves and direction of blood flow.

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    This document provides instructions for dissecting a heart. It lists the materials needed, safety precautions, and 12 steps to follow when dissecting the heart to observe the coronary arteries, chambers, valves and direction of blood flow.

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    Heart Dissection Worksheet

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    silvermoona017
    This document provides instructions for dissecting a heart. It lists the materials needed, safety precautions, and 12 steps to follow when dissecting the heart to observe the coronary arteries, chambers, valves and direction of blood flow.

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    Heart dissection

    REMEMBER WHAT TO DO

    You may have done some work 1. Put the heart on the board.
    about the heart in Key Stage 3

    TARGETS

    To work safely and make careful


    observations
    2. Look at the blood vessels on the surface of the heart.
    To find the coronary arteries that These are the coronary arteries and veins.
    supply the heart muscle with blood and You may need to cut away some fat to see them clearly.
    the chambers and valves of the heart
    3. Feel the thinner right side
    To work out the direction of blood and the thicker left side of
    flow through the heart
    the ventricle muscle.
    YOU NEED

    A heart
    Dissecting board
    Scissors 4. Make sure that the thinner
    String or strips of heavy black right side is to your left.
    polythene: 2 pieces, each 30 cm long,
    per heart
    Disposable gloves
    Disinfectant
    Soap and water 5. Cut around the 6. If you lift up the two
    heart horizontally. upper sides of the heart
    you will see the muscle in
    the middle of the heart that
    separates the two parts.

    SAFETY

    Take care when using scissors –


    make sure that you do not cut yourself
    by mistake.
    Heart dissection

    SAFETY WHAT TO DO

    After the dissection:


    7. Notice there are two chambers on each side.
    • wipe down benches
    with disinfectant; 8. Find the two top chambers, or atria. (Atria is the plural of
    atrium.)

    9. Find the two lower chambers (ventricles).

    10. Find the one-way valves (heart valves and valves at the
    opening of arteries) that stop blood flowing the wrong
    way through the heart.

    11. Thread pieces of string through the blood vessels,


    • wash your hands thoroughly. chambers and valves to help you to see where the blood
    would enter and leave the heart.

    12. Wipe down the bench afterwards. Then wash your


    hands.

    DISCUSSION

    While you are carrying out the dissection discuss the


    following questions with your partners and your teacher.

    a) Why is the left ventricle wall much thicker than the right?
    b) Which set of valves closes when the ventricles contract?
    c) Which set of valves closes when the ventricles relax?
    d) Sometimes there are large deposits of fat on the surface
    of a heart. Do you think the fat matters?

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