Fun blood links

Thanks to Jewls Edmond and Annie Lowenstein for sharing these fun blood-related links:

The life cycle of a red blood cell

School House Rock's Circulation Song

Study Guide for Next Week's Quiz

Here is the Study Guide for the Blood Quiz on Tuesday, March 8th

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You should be able to…

1. Describe the levels of organization found within the body.

2. Know the Structure and Function of the Circulatory System

3. Explain how Blood Types are determined

4. Apply learning on the Genetics of Blood

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)

Blood Typing

Video on Blood Types

Blood Types are determined by one factor:

The antigens found on the red blood cell.  These antigens determine the type and whether it is positive or negative (Rh factor).

Whether you can receive or donate blood safely brings in a third factor of the antibodies found in the plasma.  

If antigens and antibodies of the same type come into contact clotting can occur.

Example Blood Type Card

You will create your own set of Blood Type Cards (8 total)

Side 1 (Front)  - Picture of the red blood cell on it with the correct antigens, antibodies and Rh Factor.

Side 2 (Back) - List what blood types it can receive safely and which it can not.

Resources to Help You Found Below
Reading on Blood and Lymph p. 94-96 Blood Types

Learn Genetics - Blood Types

Blood Types - Get Body Smart

Blood Type- Kids Health

Information on the History of Blood Typing

Link to Karl Landsteiner Nobel Prize

Link to Blood Type Game
Read the "about" before playing the game.