Creative Project - Travels of a Blood Cell

Here is the link to Bitstrips - animation

Travels of a Red Blood Cell

Task:

For this assignment you will create a narrative that describes the voyages of a red blood cell through the circulatory system.  You have the choice of the way you that you will complete it.

Possible ideas but not limited to a:

• comic strip
• narrative story
• slide show
• stop animation
• claymation
• “Cat in the Hat” type poem and illustration.
• Animations - Using Bitstrips...https://www.bitstrips.com/pageone/

When completing your "voyage" of a red blood cell you should include:

• the structures and functions of the circulatory system
• factors that affect the blood flow
• interactions between the red blood cell and important other molecules and cells.
• the correct flow of the two-loop system

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Example Narrative:

Born in the bone marrow deep inside your long bone

I am one of TRILLIONS of my family that called this a home.

My body is flexible and my cell is not complete

I am missing a nucleus but I think it is neat.

Inside my body hemoglobin can be found

Allowing for oxygen to stick to me as I come around (the lungs)