A group of platelets struggle to unload the materials needed to "fix" a road, referring to a blood vessel of the body. Red Blood Cell and White Blood Cell help them aside from their mission of finding the invading pneumococcus.
I would not use it. While I like the scenario of a story, this is conceptionally too far from making a link to the way that platelets rush to the site to form a blood clot. The clip also feels so primary/elementary instead of secondary.
Sarah Hern
about 2 years ago
It has all the right words but doesn’t teach the real thing even by analogy. Appealing that it’s anime though.
Deanna Peters
about 2 years ago
Not sure younger students would get the connection between the cartoon and blood system
Melissa
about 2 years ago
I would use this as an engage/intro. Not enough information but a good question starter.
An alien has taken control of the ship, and the crew need to fight it. Spock explains the situation in terms of biology: the ship is the body, the crew are the blood cells, and the alien is the virus.
Red Blood Cell gets cornered by the Pneumococcus but gets saved by White Blood Cell through transmigration. White Blood Cell faces the bacterium but is overwhelmed by its powerful capsule.
Sophie explains how scabs form and how wounds are healed. She uses an analogy involving beavers building a dam to describe how the human body repairs skin.
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