Apologia Young Explorers Human Anatomy: Blood Tests

My Bio class  used the Eldon cards to type blood.  It turns out two of the girls contaminated their cards.  Sigh,  I want both my Bio class and my Human Anatomy class to type blood.  So I ordered a blood typing simulation kit, too.  The Bio class practiced typing with the simulated blood test kit.  The background information in this kit is exhaustive--meaning the kids will never read all this.  We skipped to the procedures after a quick review of blood types.  The girls tests the fake blood with the fake sera.  We checked the key to see if their results matched the key.  Nope.  This is good!  It pays to try and see what you're doing incorrectly.  The second trial worked well.  We used straws to stir the samples.  Be careful not to cross contaminate the samples.  The Bio class helped the Anatomy with fake blood after I explain blood types.  We'll see how things go.  There is enough fake blood and fake anti sera for 40 trials.  Here are photos.

The Anatomy class had a lesson in blood types.  Then we used the fake blood type tests.  We used the Eldon cards to test.  Here are the photos.