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Luisa, I like your adaptation. What a great way to learn the anesthesia blocking sites!
Michele Deck
I think using the methods that teach the students a way to learn(memorize) a procedure or process of terms, like using the ABG Go Fish, The Pulse Point Macarena, or The Story of Life for CPR. Any of these could be adapted for my material, I teach Head and Neck Anatomy, Pathology and Pharmacology. I could utilize these methods for learning the steps of the bloodflow of the heart, or memorizing drug names. Lots of good ideas.
Jerry, I would love to learn that content with the shower cap...wish I was there with your learners.
Michele Deck
anne, I have found this to be a successful way to teach a variety of learners, as well.
Michele Deck
The sheet activity would be useful to teach the neural pathways of the cranial nerves. I would add the different points where local anesthesia blocks the nerve.
When teaching how intracranial pressures are affected in head trauma, perhaps I could modify the shower cap idea. Not only would it reinforce the anatomical structures the students are supposed to remember, but I could have them come up with creating extra pieces to place on the cap to represent what happens when carbon dioxide crosses over into the brain.
The t'shirt idea is a great, creative way to get the students involved and also, learn in a painless way.
I like this method as well. It would be great to use in Periodontology. The students could draw a tooth, the gingiva(gums) and bone. They could illustrate the stages of gum disease from healthy to advanced disease. Great idea!
I like the edible cell method, in stimulates their creative side and brings food into the mix, which with our students is a BIG motivator
I teach neurology and think I will use the tshirt idea as a way to teach the dermatome levels. What a fun way to interact with technical information. Thanks for the creativity!
Suzanne, thank you for adapting this idea to your own course content. Would a small child's tshirt and a stuffed dog be another option?
Michele Deck
I like the T shirt idea. However, I teach physical exams for our vet tech program so I would have them use k-9 anatomy on the shirt. It would help the student visualize the location of the heart in the k-9 thorax.
Philip, I like the idea of trading carbon dioxide in the lungs for oxygen, this is a great improvement I will try next time I teach this.
Michele Deck
I think an idea like drawing out the flow of blood through the heart and lungs could be a good adaptation. What I think I would change would be having different types of cells. As this is their introduction to this process of oxygenation, I think I would prefer to only use oxygenated and deoxygenated cells to keep the teaching simple and focused on the main point. Also, mabey they could enter carrying a CO2 and exchange it with students in the lungs for an oxygen molecule.
I teach veterinary technology and we use a lot of stuffed animals for demonstration before we bring in live animals to work on. This works well for my diagnostic technologies class and my anesthesia class.
I also thought the t-shirt and sheet idea were brilliant. It would be a great team activity where each team would take a different body system for the sheet.
Lawrence, I agree it would be hard to eat something that your associated with the look and feel of the human brain!
Michele Deck