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Valentine's Day is coming.



The sites I've found give some background information on the history of the holiday. Additionally, I've found some interesting sites on the human heart as well some fun candy sites!
Cool facts about the heart:
  • 1. Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year!
  • 2. Your body has about 6 quarts of blood which circulate through the body THREE times in a minute.
  • 3. In one day, the blood travels the distance of 12,000 miles!
  • 4. Your hearbeat is really the sound of the heart valves closing as they push the blood through its chambers.


    • Sites:
    1. http://www.pictureframes.co.uk/pages/saint_valentine.htm
    (History of Valentine's Day and customs from around the world)
    2. http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/val/history.html
    (history of Valentine's day)
    3. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/facts.html
    (Lots of cool heart facts)
    4. http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000131.html
    5. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/candyhearts1.html candy hearts
    6. http://www.necco.com/SweetheartMiniSite/Default.asp?Section=history
    (Necco's starts making its Conversation Heart from late February of the previous year through mid-January
    7. http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/c/crosssection/namethatbar.html
    (Fun NAME that candy activity!)

  • Cyberhunt:
    http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/heart_SW.html
    1. The heart is an organ, a bone or a muscle?_______________
    2. What does the right side of your heart do?_____________ What does the left side of the heart do?_________________
    3. How many chambers are in the heart? ______________________What are the chambers on the top of the heart called?_______________________
    What are the chambers of the lower heart called?________________
    4. About how long does it take the heart to pump blood to reach every cell of your body?___________________
    5. What are two places to check your heart beating, called your "pulse"?___________________________


    • *from :http://kidshealth.org