Today in school we learned about a part of biology that's very appropriate for October and spookiness - blood.
Not really that spooky, but it's actually pretty fascinating to learn about what all is inside a single drop of blood.
Since I'm all about visual aids, and Pinterest, I found a super cool way to show what is in every single drop of blood.
This actually turned out to be a successful failure, in that it didn't go as planned, but the kids definitely learned something from it.
Observe: the drop of blood:
Well, sort of. More like a drop of blood about to clot.
The clear liquid (corn syrup) was to represent plasma.
The rice was meant to be platelets.
The little cinnamon candies were to represent red blood cells.
The white beans were to represent white blood cells, and apparently we have a blood clot or something, because the red blood cells refused to float and the white blood cells wouldn't sink.
See? A successful failure.
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