A curriculum friendly resource that is aligned to National Science Standards presents a wide range of scientific topics to elementary and middle school students. In the first ten episodes, students blast off with the crew of RealTime Science Connections (RTSC), with a mission to orbit the earth while learning about space exploration, the human body, the ocean depths and much more. In the final eight episodes, The Magellan Adventures, the crew and a robot named I-O board the Magellan, a galactic space cruiser, traveling into space and beyond in search of science puzzles. What does math have to do with the pulsating beat of your heart? On the RealTime Science Connections, The Circulatory System: The Beat Goes On, our crew jobs through the plains of a planet hundreds of light years away and discovers how to determine their heart rate. Students are in for a treat as the Magellan crew with a little help from the Professor, go inside the human body, travel throughout the circulatory system and discover the heart. For all this and much more join us on RealTime Science Connections.

Originally released by BECON, 2005. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on February 17, 2016.

Measuring Heart Rate (3:04); --Crew Introduction (1:14); -- Circulatory System (3:42); -- Resting Heart Rate (3:07); -- Target Heart Rate (2:02); -- Bypass Surgery (1:46); -- Human Heart (2:43); -- Journey to the Satellite (3:19); -- Credits: The Magellan Adventures, The Circulatory System: The Beat Goes On—Realtime Science Connections (2:28); .