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I think this is interesting for those of us who teach to Early Childhood
audiences.  So many models and diagrams use the red and blue models that are
really more metaphoric than they are scientifically accurate.  Yet, kids of
that age are very concrete and extremely visual.  What colors do you see is
a common question to ask them--of the 8 crayon selection.  There isn't
always a recognized difference between "dark red" and "bright red."  We
often talk about blood as being a red liquid, but kids astutely ask "why is
it blue there?"  Good question, kids.

I also like Ian's point.  What color is the sea?  Ask a kid.  Is he wrong to
say that water is blue?  I think it ultimately begs the question of why we
are asking what we are asking.  Is there learning there, or is it a time
filler question?  Color identification is a way to let all kids participate
on a basic level, but are heart and blood diagrams the plum pudding models
of biology?

--jesse


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Adela Elwell <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

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> An exception: blood flowing from the right side of the heart to the lungs
> in the pulmonary arteries carry deoxygenated blood (dark red), and pulmonary
> veins carry oxygenated blood (bright red). In the fetus, the umbilical
> artery also carries deoxygenated blood. The major function of the right side
> of the heart is to pump blood to the lungs to become oxygenated. Arteries
> carry blood away from the heart.
>
> Laddie Elwell
> Headwaters Science Center
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> On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:02 PM, martin weiss wrote:
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>>        Qxygenated blood red cell containsn oxy-hemoglobin which is bright
>> red. When oxygen is displaced by carbon dioxide carbaminohemoglobin is
>> formed which is dark red; not quite blue. Yes arterial blood, from the
>> lungs, is oxygen rich and bright red; venous blood, going back to the lungs
>> is darker red.
>>
>>
>> Martin
>> On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:27 PM, Erich Rose wrote:
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>>> RED, RED, RED.  BRIGHT RED WHEN FULL OF OXYGEN (ARTERIAL?) AND DARK WHEN
>>> FLOWING BACK (VEINOUS?)
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>>> OTHERS WILL CHIME IN WITH MORE DETAIL I HOPE.
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>>> On Nov 30, 2009, at 2:22 PM, Jonah Cohen wrote:
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>>>> OK, folks. Some debate was going on, and (go figure) online searching
>>>> revealed much baldly contradictory info. So let me ask the esteemed
>>>> folks of ASTC:
>>>>
>>>> Human blood: blue? red? changing between the two?
>>>>
>>>> Vulcans = green,
>>>> Jonah Cohen
>>>> Outreach & Public Programs Manager
>>>> The Children's Museum
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>>>> insanity, science can conquer anything."
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