Valentine’s Day Science Activity: Heart Disease

⭐  Get this Valentine’s Day science activity at a discount in our Valentine’s Day Science Bundle!

In this anatomy activity, students will:

• Read a brief background about heart disease and how doctors evaluate risk for heart disease (simplified for middle schoolers).
• Use a “Heart Disease Risk” chart to evaluate the risk factor score for 6 patients.
• Answer analysis questions about which patients were at the lowest and highest risk of heart disease, and the factors that put them in these categories.

Teacher Notes:

• Answer key included.
• Aligns with NGSS MS-LS1-3.
• Please note that this Valentine’s Day science activity is not editable.
• This document does NOT mention Valentine’s Day – it is simply a nice way to tie in NGSS science (standard MS-LS1-3) to this heart-related holiday!
• NO PREP – just copies!
• Check out more resources in the Valentine’s Day science section of our shop!