The Heart & Blood
Your child knows the heart is a muscle that pumps blood round the body. They can feel it beat by putting a hand on their chest or fingers on their wrist.
In curriculum terms
Understand that the heart is a muscle that pumps blood around the body through tubes called blood vessels, and that we can feel our heartbeat by placing a hand on our chest or fingers on our wrist
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How to tell they’ve got it
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Try this together
Can your child find their own pulse on their wrist or neck, and explain that it’s their heart pumping blood?
Where this sits on the map
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Curriculum alignment
Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.
This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).