Assignment:
Overview: You will work with a partner or within small group to create a simple model of the heart that can be used to show the path that blood flows through the heart during the pulmonary and systemic circuits. Each component must be clearly labeled and in the anatomically correct position. After, you will reflect on the effectiveness of your model.
Required Model Components:
• 4 chambers
• 4 valves
• Pulmonary veins
• Superior vena cava and Inferior vena cava
• Aorta
• Pulmonary artery
Reflection:
1. How does your model effectively represent the structure of the heart and the pathway of blood flow?
2. How does this model lack effectiveness in its representation of the structure of the heart and the pathway of blood flow?
3. Select one of the ways the model lacks effectiveness from your answer to #2 and describe a specific way that you could improve the model in the future to be a more accurate representation and/or learning tool.
4. What do you understand better now about the structure of the heart and the pathway of blood flow after creating this model?
5. What are you still struggling to understand about the structure of the heart and the pathway of blood flow, even after this activity oday?