REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Department of Education
Region III – Central Luzon
Schools Division of Zambales
SAN GUILLERMO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Activity 5
Pump It!
Objectives:
Describe how the heart functions
Build a working heart model
Explain how blood is pumped by the heart
Materials
3 x Pop bottles (710 mL) with caps, labels removed.
4 x Bendy straws
3 Cups of water
Food colouring (RED)
Tape
Modeling clay
Scissors (or other sharp pokey for making holes in the caps)
Reference/s: www.steampoweredfamily.com/activities/heart-model-heart-stem ,
Science 9 LM
A. PROCEDURES ( FOR HEART MODEL)
1.You will need 2 bottle caps for this experiment. Keep the third one as a back up. In the first
cap drill two holes that are the same size. You want the holes to be just big enough for the
straws to slide through. In the second cap drill one hole that is straw sized. The second hold
should be smaller. If you drill both straw sized (like we did), you can use some modeling clay
to make the second hole a little smaller.
2. In a pitcher mix your water and food colouring to create your red blood. The exact amount
of water is not important.
3.Take two straws, stretch and bend them to create a 90 degree angle. Slide one straw into
the other straw (pinch one to make it smaller so it slides in), then tape up the join. Repeat with
the second set of straws.
San Guillermo National High School
Address: Burgos, San Marcelino, Zambales
Email Address: 301029@deped.gov.ph
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Department of Education
Region III – Central Luzon
Schools Division of Zambales
SAN GUILLERMO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
4. Place your three bottles on the table. Fill the first two with your water to about 80% full.
Leave the third one empty.
5. On the first bottle place the cap with one straw hole and one small hole. On the middle
bottle place the cap with two straw holes. Leave the third bottle without a cap.
6. Carefully slide the straws through the bottle caps. Place clay or play dough around the
straw bases on the middle bottle to make an airtight seal with the bottle cap. You are now
ready to put your heart model to work.
7. Refer to the photo below to know what your setup must look like.
Figure 10. The working heart model
B. PROCEDURES (MAKING YOUR HEART MODEL WORK)
1. In this simple model the first bottle is the atrium of the heart, the second bottle is the
ventricle, and the third bottle represents either the lungs or body. Our fingers function
as the valves of the heart.
2. To make your heart model work, squeeze the middle bottle only. Start by pinching the
straw between the atrium and ventricle bottle. Squeeze the middle bottle and watch
your “blood” squirt out into the body.
San Guillermo National High School
Address: Burgos, San Marcelino, Zambales
Email Address: 301029@deped.gov.ph
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
Department of Education
Region III – Central Luzon
Schools Division of Zambales
SAN GUILLERMO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
3. Repeat, repeat, repeat to pump blood from the atrium, into the ventricle then out to
the body!
4. Once your blood in the atrium gets too low, you can take blood from the “body” and
add it back into the atrium. Then start again.
Guide Questions:
Q16. What does the water inside the soda bottle represent?
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Q17. How will you compare the working heart model and the human heart?
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Q18. How does the heart function as a pump?
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Q19. Will the heart model be able to function properly if the straw is blocked? Explain
your answer.
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KEY CONCEPTS
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
left and right portion, totaling to four chambers altogether. The top chamber is the atrium
(plural: atria). The bottom chamber is called 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.
Prepared by:
CHARILYN D. DELA CRUZ
Science 9 Teacher
San Guillermo National High School
Address: Burgos, San Marcelino, Zambales
Email Address: 301029@deped.gov.ph
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