- Aerated Water
- Air Engine
- Air Table
- Are you Hot or Not?
- Balancing Act
- Bending Beams
- Block the gap
- Braille
- Bridge the Gap
- Chalk Wall
- Changing Faces
- Chaotic Motion
- Circle of Discovery
- Circle of Discovery- The Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Bridge Design
- Circle of Discovery-Ideas hub
- Circle of Discovery-Internet
- Circle of Discovery-Medicine
- Circle of Discovery-photography
- Circle of Discovery: Design - Earthquake
- Circulation
- Colour Wheel
- Communication Codes
- Communication Dishes
- Computer
- Crystallography
- Digestive System
- Down the Drain
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Fibre Optics
- Flight Simulator
- Gear Table
- Handshake Mirror
- Harmonograph
- High Flyer
- Hit the Target
- Horizontal Periscope
- Human Battery
- It's Electric
- Larger Than Life
- Lift Me Pull You
- Light Table
- Lock Box
- Making Waves
- Mini Harmonograph
- Mobile Phone
- Move It
- Nervous System
- Newtons Cradle
- Organ Pipe
- Organ Pipe Tune
- Oscillating Pendulums
- Pendulums
- People Power
- Periscope
- Prove Pythagoras
- Radar
- Radio Station
- Reactable
- Reflection Refraction
- Robot Arm
- Science of Sport
- Sensation
- Simple Camera
- Simple Circuits
- Smoke Tunnel
- Solar Energy
- Sound Waves
- Structures and Stresses
- Telescope
- The Exhibition
- The Eye
- The Lung and Chest Cavity
- The Wheel Race
- Thermal Imager
- Tornado
- Tower of Hanoi
- Universe Wall
- Up and Down
- Vertical Periscope
- Viscosity
- Viscosity Plungers
- Volume and Mass
- Vortex
- Watch Your Waste
- Weight Lifter
- Wheels Within Wheels
- Wind Tunnel
Circulation
Activity.... Do – Think - Learn
Medicine can be given by injection and passes into the blood stream. Blood circulates round the body and can carry the medicine quickly to the place where it is needed.
How does blood circulate round the body?
Why do children have injections?
The Science Bit
The heart is a big muscle that pumps blood around the body and it keeps moving. The heart pushes the blood through tubes, carrying the blood around the body. These tubes are called veins and arteries. Blood contains different cells to do different jobs. Red blood cells carry oxygen, white blood cells fight infections and platelets help blood to clot.
Injections direct into the blood stream can also help with pain control, or even to prevent diseases. If bacteria is killed and then injected into the body then antibodies will form to fight the disease. This will protect you if live bacteria of the disease enter the body.
Curriculum Links
Ourselves
- That we need to eat and drink to stay alive
Health and Growth
- That humans need food and water to stay alive
- That sometimes we take medicines when we get ill, these help us to get better
- That medicines are useful but are drugs not foods and can be dangerous
- That some people need medicines to keep them alive and healthy
- To ask questions about medicines and health
- That medicines can be dangerous if we take them without consulting parents or doctors
- To recognise hazards and risks in medicines and how to avoid these
- To communicate information about the safe use of medicines
Keeping healthy
- That the heart and lungs are protected by the ribs
Last Modified: 27/07/2011
