Thursday, May 30, 2013

Our blood

We have been learning about how our blood circulates around our bodies and now we are learning about our blood. 

Today we made our own blood to show the different things that make up our blood. We started off with some water and a bit of yellow food colouring to represent plasma. Then we added red blood cells (Cheerios cereal and red food colouring), white blood cells (white pompoms) and platelets (marshmallows). 

Here is how our blood looked:



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