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I like the T-shirt idea. It could be used for a multitude of lessons. EKG lead placement would be a great tool for Patient Care Technicians.
Clyde, I had not thought of the round robin approach but will try it. Thanks for the suggestion!
Michele Deck
I love the interactive lesson of the cardiac circulation sheet I usually play round robin until everyone is in sync with the process of blood flow but having a sheet sounds fun!
Jamie, I'm so glad this teaching idea is applicable to your class content. I know your students will learn from it.
Michele Deck
The shower cap idea is brilliant for teaching anatomical structures of the skull. This is to include bones, sutures and bony landmarks. I teach massage therapy courses this activity is perfect for introduction to cranial anatomy.
ANDREA, I love the pizza idea and hope you shared it with as many students as possible to inspire and teach them.
Michele Deck
one of my coworkers used the incredible edible cell for histology and said it worked well! I had the students draw a picture of the cell. one student made a pizza out of her cell. each organelle represented a topping on her pizza; very creative and fun:)
Mabel, thank you for sharing this terrific teaching strategy. Many instructors will see it here and will try it.
Michele Deck
I really like the T-shirt idea for A & P. (Cost will be a problem for the supplies.) We have used the idea of a candy cell, and that is always a hit. Just recently I used felt and cut out heart & lungs. Using red, blue, and purple pipe cleaners, the students demonstrated the 2 circulatory systems. They loved it.
Michele, I like the idea of adding to the tshirt over time, and content. This males it more than a one time tool.
Michele Deck
I think I would like to use the Tshirt and keep adding to it as we progress through the module.
I like the idea of the T shirt as well. It can be added onto as we go through assessment.
John, thanks for this creative suggestion. We all can relate to using these tools.
Michele Deck
I use thin fresh cowhide or pig skin for students to practice removing surgical staples or simple sutures. I get it for no charge from local processers. Students can do a skin prep, shave or scrub. It is very real to them and involves no biohazard problems.
Helen, I wish I was in your class to learn these concepts the way you teach them. You can help so many people with these ideas! Thank you for sharing them!!!
Michele Deck
Charlotte, thank you do much for describing how you will adapt this activity to your content. I wish I was in your class when you use this activity!
Michele Deck
I like the idea of the circulation walk-through. I teach nutrition and a particularly difficult concept for the students to get is the circulation of bile, so a digestion walk through would be great because you can have one student walk through the gi tract while 2 other students represent the bile, leave the liver and subsequently gall bladder together, meet up ith the food in the duodenum, split up in intestine, and take their different routes-- either to the rectum with the food or back to the liver.
Oriental Trading catalog has sheets of an outline of a human body. It comes with removable stickers of the different organs and their names. There are 12 sheets per packet with stickers for each sheet. I have a race to see who can put the stickers in the right location in the right orientation (upright vs. upside down) with the correct corresponding names.
They also 'brain hats' that can be made with stickers to locate what each area of the brain controls (ie. music, speech, critical thinking, etc) They were out of them for my current class, so I will use the shower caps instead!
I also use the edible cell. I use gelatin for cytoplasm and put it in a baggie. Then I put all of the candy 'organelles' in another baggie and pass them out to everyone. As we go over each one in lecture, they have to find the candy that represents that organelle. At the end they are to put the geletin baggie inside the now empty baggie to represent that the cell membrane is bi-layered.
For the heart I have used a 100 ft orange extension cord and taped it to the floor in the shape of the heart with the valves and path to the lungs. The sheet will be much less time consuming. I also use heart stickers to trace the electrical path and the student who represents the SA node uses a flash light to coordinate with contraction of the heart and the opening/closing of the valves. I use one student at a time to make the coordination easier. They wear blue uniforms so when they get to the lungs (represented by a student holding up 2 inflated baloons) they put on a red sweater. When they get to the capillary bed, I put 3 chairs with a pillow and blanket. They 'undress'(take off the red sweater) and lie down in the 'bed'. We then start with another student at the venules.
Douglas, thank you for your positive feedback about the course materials. I appreciate it!
Michele Deck