After looking at these for what seemed like forever and still not getting the flow correct, I started printing them out in black and white and coloring the pictures. Coloring the veins blue for deoxygenated blood and the arteries red for oxygenated blood helped me learn the pathway of the blood. Arteries=Away
Also getting this song(<-- click there to listen) stuck in your head during a lab practical doesn't hurt either! The lyrics:
Pup, pump, pumps your blood
The right atrium's where the process begins,
Where the CO2 blood enters the heart.
Through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle
The pulmonary artery and lungs.
Once inside the lungs it dumps it carbon dioxide
And picks up its oxygen supply
The it's back to the heart through the pulmonary vein
Through the atrium and left ventricle.
Pump, pump, pumps your blood.
The aortic valves where the blood leaves the heart
Then it's channeled to the rest of the bod
The arteries, arterioles, and capillaries too
Bring the oxygenated blood to the cells
the tissues and the cells trade of waste and CO2
Which is carried through the venules and the veins
Through the larger vena cava to the atrium and lungs
And we're back to where we started in the heart."
During the lab practical last week I actually caught myself tapping my foot at the beat of this song...but hopefully it helped me enough to get me through that test!
The right atrium's where the process begins,
Where the CO2 blood enters the heart.
Through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle
The pulmonary artery and lungs.
Once inside the lungs it dumps it carbon dioxide
And picks up its oxygen supply
The it's back to the heart through the pulmonary vein
Through the atrium and left ventricle.
Pump, pump, pumps your blood.
The aortic valves where the blood leaves the heart
Then it's channeled to the rest of the bod
The arteries, arterioles, and capillaries too
Bring the oxygenated blood to the cells
the tissues and the cells trade of waste and CO2
Which is carried through the venules and the veins
Through the larger vena cava to the atrium and lungs
And we're back to where we started in the heart."
During the lab practical last week I actually caught myself tapping my foot at the beat of this song...but hopefully it helped me enough to get me through that test!
