Week 08 · Thursday: Heart and Blood (Body Lab K-2)

Thursday: Feel your pulse

Raven presses two fingers on her wrist. Tap, tap, tap!

Rocket asks, "How can we feel a heart from outside?"

Nova says, "Find the beat with gentle fingers."

Your pulse

Your heart is inside you.

But you can feel it working from outside!

The beat you feel is called your pulse.

Each beat comes from one heart squeeze.

Where to feel it

Turn one hand palm up.

Find the spot just below your thumb.

Press there gently with two fingers of your other hand.

You can also try the side of your neck.

Be still and wait. Do you feel a small beat?

For a grown-up

Help your child find the pulse below the thumb.
Use the pads of two fingers, not the thumb.
It can take practice, and that is fine.
If you have health questions, ask a doctor or nurse.

PULSE FINDER

Read the question.
Tap your answer.

What is the beat you feel called?

What makes each beat?

How should you press?

Sentence	True or false?
You can feel a pulse on your wrist.	?
You can feel a pulse on your neck.	?
A pulse comes from your elbow.	?
Finding a pulse can take practice.	?

WHY THIS EXERCISEEach heart squeeze makes a beat you can feel.

Try it

Sit still and find your pulse.
Tap your foot with each beat you feel.
Keep tapping for a little while.
Is the beat steady, like a drum?

FIND YOUR PULSE

Tap a card.
Then tap its spot.

1First

2Next

3Then

4Last

MISTAKES HELP

Read the question.
Tap your answer.

Rocket used his thumb and felt nothing. What next?

Draw two fingers finding a pulse.

Word Spot: kind, hand

Here are new sight words.

Look at each word. Say it. Spell it.

Kind: K-I-N-D.

Hand: H-A-N-D.

FIND THE WORD

Listen to the word.
Tap it.

Find the word you hear.

FILL THE GAP

Listen to the sentence.
Tap the missing word.

What ___ of bird is that?

Raise your ___.

You found a beat from the outside. Amazing!

Tomorrow you will see what moving does to your heart.