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Modified In-School Off-School Approach Modules (MISOSA)
Distance Education for Elementary Schools
SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

THE BLOOD VESSELS
Department of Education
BUREAU OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
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DepEd Complex, Meralco Avenue
Pasig City
Revised 2010
by the Learning Resource Management and Development System (LRMDS),
DepEd - Division of Negros Occidental
under the Strengthening the Implementation of Basic Education
in Selected Provinces in the Visayas (STRIVE).
This edition has been revised with permission for online distribution
through the Learning Resource Management Development System (LRMDS) Portal
(http://lrmds.deped.gov.ph/) under Project STRIVE for BESRA, a project supported
by AusAID.
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Education of the Department of Education, Republic of the Philippines.

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THE BLOOD VESSELS








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At the end of the lesson, you will be able to:
Identify the types of the blood vessels
Describe the functions of each part



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Look at your wrist. Can you see a green line?
What other parts of your body can you see green lines? These lines are your blood vessels.
Activity 1. Roads in your Transport System











Your blood vessels are like roads where your bus, jeepneys and cars pass.
It is through these blood vessels where blood flows.










1. Where do you pass when you go to school? Make a sketch of
your route from home to school. Label the streets you pass by.



2. Where do buses, jeepneys and cars pass?

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Activity 2. Types of Blood Vessels

There are 3 types of blood vessels, namely; arteries, capillaries and veins. Get to know
more about these blood vessels by reading the descriptions and functions of each part.












Arteries are thick-walled and elastic
They carry reddish blood with nutrients
and oxygen away from the heart. The
thick walls withstand the force of
flow of blood as it flows from the
heart. They are buried deep inside
the body to keep them from injury.
They branch off into even smaller
Arteries that lead to capillaries.


Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels
and can be seen only with the microscope.
You find them near the skin. Oxygen and
food in the blood pass through the capillary
to the cells. Exchange of water, gases,
nutrients and waste materials occurs
between the blood and the tissues in the
capillaries. Capillaries lead into another kind
of blood vessels called veins.






















Veins carry bluish blood with more carbon
dioxide and other waste back to the heart
out in to the lungs. The walls are thin and
contain less muscle tissue than the arteries.





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Activity 3. What are the kinds of blood vessels?

1. Fill up the table below.




I LEARNED THAT:

The blood vessels are the passage ways of blood

There are three kinds of blood vessels: arteries, veins and capillaries

Arteries are the largest and carry blood with oxygen (oxygenated blood) away from the
heart.

Capillaries are very thin and have tiny openings in their walls.

Veins carry blood (unoxygenated) back to the heart.





What will happen if the blood vessels will not work?
Sometimes you prick your finger and no blood flows out. Explain why?
Sometimes a prick can cause blood to flow out. Explain why?



Kind of Blood Vessels Characteristics Functions

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Carries blood with oxygen and nutrients away from the heart
Carries blood with waste like carbon dioxide back to the heart
The part where the exchange of gases, nutrients and wastes
between the blood and body cells occur.