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What is the picture all about?

How can they help our community?

If we would represent the community as our body, what organ system would the two pictures be part of? Why?
activity
• Inquiry-Based Learning (Learning Centers)
• Group 1 – What am I?
• Group 2 – Name this!
• Group 3 - Match It!
• Group 4 – Number Magic!
• Group 5 - Complete Me!
Presentation of activity
 • The circulatory system is the
life support structure that
nourishes your cells with
nutrients from the food you
eat and oxygen from the air
you breathe. The community
of cells sustain the body to
survive.
• Also known as cardiovascular
system.

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 • It functions with other body
systems to deliver different
materials in the body.
• It circulates vital elements
such as oxygen and nutrients.
At the same time, it also
transports wastes away from
the body.

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PARTS OF THE CIRCULATORY
SYSTEM
1. HEART –
• Pumps the blood throughout the
body.
• Pericardium – membrane that
covers the heart.
• Coronary artery – supplies oxygen
for the heart.

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 The heart
• Is a hollow muscular organ about the size of your fist, which is
located in the center of your chest between the lungs. It is a double
pump that pumps on the left and right sides. Every side is divided
into two chambers, the atrium and the ventricle, each of which has
a left and right portion totalling to the four chambers altogether.
The top is the atrium (plural: atria), The bottom chamber is the
ventricle. The valve acts as a one way door, allowing blood to flow
either forward into the next chamber , or out of the heart.

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Four Chambers and valves of the
heart
• Right atrium – tricuspid valve – right ventricle
• Right ventricle – pulmonary/pulmonic valve –
pulmonary artery
• Left atrium – bicuspid/mitral valve – left ventricle
• Left ventricle – aortic valve – aorta

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2. Blood Vessels
• Arteries – Carry oxygenated
blood away from the heart
to the cells, tissues and
organs of the body. They
have thick walls and narrow
lumen,
Arteriole – smaller artery
Aorta – largest artery
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 • Veins –
Carry deoxygenated blood to
the heart. They have thin
walls and wide lumen and
have valves to prevent the
backflow of the blood.
Venules – smaller veins.
Vena cava – largest veins.

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 Capillaries –
• The smallest blood vessels in
the body, connecting the
smallest arteries to the
smallest veins.
• The actual site where gases
and nutrients are exchanged.

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Blood Vessels
CAPILLARIES

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Blood
Solid part of the blood
• Red blood cells – erythrocytes
• White blood cells – leukocytes
• Blood platelets – thrombocytes
Liquid part of the blood
• Plasma – made up of water, salt and protein

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Red blood cells - erythrocytes
• Hemoglobin - protein inside red
blood cells. It carries oxygen. Red
blood cells also remove carbon
dioxide from your body, transporting
it to the lungs for you to exhale. Red
blood cells are made in the bone
marrow. They typically live for about
120 days, and then they die.

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White blood cells - leukocytes
• Are the cells involved in protecting
the body against both
infectious disease and foreign
invaders. All white blood cells are
produced and derived from
multipotent cells in the
bone marrow known as
hematopoietic stem cells.
• Found in lymphatic system.

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Kinds of white blood cells

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 monocytes
• are important in the immune
system's ability to destroy invaders,
but also in facilitating healing and
repair.
• are formed in the bone marrow
and are released into peripheral
blood, where they circulate for
several days.

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 eosinophil

• a type of white blood cell, fight

infections and play a role in allergic
reactions.
• they release poisons to fight foreign
bodies, such as bacteria and
parasites

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 basophil
• appear in many specific kinds of
inflammatory reactions, particularly
those that cause allergic symptoms.
• contain anticoagulant heparin, which
prevents blood from clotting too quickly.
• contain the vasodilator histamine, which
promotes blood flow to tissues.

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 lymphocytes
• include natural killer cells (which
function in cell-mediated, cytotoxic
innate immunity), T cells (for cell-
mediated, cytotoxic adaptive
immunity), and B cells (for humoral,
antibody-driven adaptive immunity).

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 neutrophil
• a type of immune cell that is one of
the first cell types to travel to the site
of an infection.
• help fight infection by ingesting
microorganisms and releasing
enzymes that kill the microorganisms.
• a type of granulocyte, and a type of
phagocyte

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Blood platelets or thrombocytes
• (From the Greek θρόμβος, "clot"
and κύτος, "cell"), are a
component of blood whose
function (along with the
coagulation factors) is to react to
bleeding from blood vessel injury
by clumping, thereby initiating a
blood clot. Platelets have no
cell nucleus.

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Pulmonary Circulation

•Movement of
blood from the
heart, to the
lungs, and back
to the heart.
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Coronary Circulation

•Movement of
blood through
the tissues of
the heart

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Systemic circulation
•Movement of
blood from the
heart to the rest
of the body,
excluding the
lungs.
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Answer this question
• Why is circulatory system essential in our body?
Evaluation
• Let the learners answer the following questions:
• -Fact or Bluff-
• 1. Circulatory system transports nutrients and waste materials in the
body.
• 2. The heart is the pumping organ of the body.
• 3. Plasma is a solid component of the blood.
• 4. White blood cells fight infection of the body.
• 5. Artery carries blood towards the heart.
Assignment
 DISEASES OF THE
RESPIRATORY and
circulatory SYSTEM
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