Arteries, Veins and Capillaries

5th Grade ScienceCirculatory System3 pages

About this worksheet

A comparison chart and a sorting table make up this 3-page 5th grade science sheet on blood vessels. On page 1 students fill a chart with arteries, veins and capillaries across four rows: which way the blood flows, walls, size and job. They choose from a bank of twelve facts. Page 2 lists eight clues, such as the aorta or red blood cells squeezing through single file, and students write Artery, Vein or Capillary beside each. Page 3 gives the finished chart and the sorted list.

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Curriculum objectives covered

4-LS1-1

โ€œConstruct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behavior, and reproduction.โ€

The chart matches each vessel's wall and size to its job, and the eight clues in Part 2 use those structures to name the vessel.

What's inside this worksheet

Blood Vessels Comparison Chart

Students copy facts from the bank into twelve boxes. The rows cover flow direction, wall thickness, size and job. Two entries in the size row use the same word, large.

Sort the Vessel Facts

Eight clues, from valves that stop backflow to a pulse you can feel, each get a vessel name in the box beside them.

Answers

The filled chart and the eight vessel names.

How teachers use it

Draw it first

Sketch the three vessels on the board before students start. They can then place each fact against a picture before they write in the chart.

The two large boxes

Arteries and veins both take the word large, so tell students either order works. Check the other rows to see who understood the difference.

Clue strips

Cut page 2 into strips for a small group. One student reads a clue aloud and the group agrees on a vessel before anyone writes.

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