Twitter can be a great source of professional development, inspiration and collaboration for teachers. Just the other day I was looking for a hands-on activity with which to demonstrate elastic potential energy and energy transfer and so I tweeted for ideas. Here are some of the wonderful suggestions I received from the Twittersphere. Thank you everyone for your contributions!
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Demonstrate the composition of blood by making blood cereal.
Plasma – milk with a drop of yellow food colouring. Add glucose and a little oil to demonstrate that nutrients are carried in the plasma.
Red blood cells – Cheerios stained with red food colouring.
White blood cells – small marshmallows for lymphocytes and larger marshmallows for phagocytes.
Platelets – Cornflakes crunched up to represent fragments of cells. The mixture can be passed through a fine sieve to demonstrate how the platelets clump and clot blood vessel lesions.
Mix into a big bloody mess!
(Although all of the ingredients are edible this is for demonstration purposes only and should not be eaten).
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