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How do you piece your heart together? With an anatomy jigsaw puzzle from Genius Games! The Human Heart jigsaw puzzle is 100% medically accurate as it was designed by Mesa Schumacher, a certified medical illustrator. This puzzle will be a welcome addition to your homeschool science studies or your summer learning adventures.
Genius Games has produced numerous fun puzzles that our family has enjoyed (I share other links and reviews at the end of this post). And the Dr. Livingston's Anatomy Jigsaw Puzzle Series contains the following puzzles:
- The Heart
- The Brain
- The Eye
- The Hands
- The Feet
- The Head
- The Abdomen
- The Thorax
- The Arms
- The Legs
About This Puzzle
The Human Heart Jigsaw Puzzle is 22 inches by 28 inches, making it one of the smaller puzzles we've completed from Genius Games of late. It has 597 pieces that focus on the "powerhouse of our cardiovascular system" – the heart.
With this puzzle, you'll be able to see the atria and ventricles, the pulmonary vessels, and the pericardium. These parts of the heart and more are labeled on the inside of the lid. So, after you finish the puzzle, you could ask your children to label the heart that they just pieced together. This would make for a fun, hands-on way to test their anatomical knowledge.
Our Thoughts
While our younger children, aged 8 and 10, found the puzzle a little too difficult, our oldest (who graduated a couple years ago) found it to be just the right level of difficulty. Personally, I found it to be on par with
The Thorax puzzle we reviewed several years ago.
There were tricky parts, as it has rather large sections that are the same color, but we completed this puzzle in less time than it took us to complete the Pregnant Mother Anatomy Puzzle. Sometimes, all it took was to walk away for a break, and then we would see new connections.
One feature I love about the puzzle is that it comes in a nice, sturdy box with a magnetic lid. The box itself can stand upright on your bookshelf. So it looks like a book. If you had the entire collection, you could place them on your homeschool science shelf, and it would look very lovely indeed.
I would recommend Dr. Livingston's Anatomy Jigsaw Puzzle: The Human Heart to those families who are looking to add some fun to their science lessons. Whether your children are studying anatomy or not, this puzzle provides a nice hands-on learning activity. It fosters cooperation in addition to discussions on science.
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