Last year we visited a school in the East Midlands (we can’t say where!) and during one of our Classroom Casualty workshops a pupil recorded an ECG from their heart. (Electrocardiogram, this records the electrical signals from your heart and is the wavy line you see on TV hospital dramas). Nick and Simon who were [...]
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Tuesday,
March
20th,
2012
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Categories : General Physiology
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Tuesday,
December
6th,
2011
After two sold out weeks in 2011, Classroom Medics are returning to Norfolk, Suffolk & Cambs with our hands on medical & sports science workshops! This year you can see if you can beat Usain Bolt with The Accelerator, or examine Colin’s colon with an endoscope camera or what about trying to intubate Eddy the [...]
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Tuesday,
November
8th,
2011
The Accelerator is a one of a kind piece of kit that no one else in the world has, except us and the only way to bring it to your school is with our NEW WORKSHOP called the Sports Science Games. Watch the video below to take a sneak peak at the prototype in action and then read on to see [...]
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Sunday,
October
30th,
2011
Top 10 Classroom Medics Science workshop Activities 10. COLIN THE COLON A recent addition to our Classroom Casualty workshop, but already a firm (sorry, i couldnt resist) favourite. This is one of the more trickier activities where you can use an endoscope to examine inside Colin to find the tumours, ulcers and polyps. 9. SPRINT [...]
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Friday,
June
3rd,
2011
The deadly outbreak of E – Coli in Germany has thought to have originated from cucumbers. So why is this bacteria sooo deadly? Well, we need some facts to start us off: 1. E-Coli is normally found in our intestines and is harmless 2. It usually colonises (grows in) a baby’s gut 40hours after birth! [...]
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Categories : General Physiology, Toxicology & Drugs
Here are a few of our favourite science sites where you can find free resources or opportunities to bring in science talks and events to your school. 1. Science Live This site is a great place to look for science presenters, shows and workshops for your school. You can search by region, theme and much [...]
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Categories : Lesson Plans & Ideas, Top Tip Blogs
A family friend had their child diagnosed with Meningitis this week, so i thought a blog on how to spot the signs of this very serious condition would be a good idea. It is either a bacterial or viral infection of the thin linings that covers the brain and spinal cord. These layers are called meninges, which [...]
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Categories : General Physiology, Top Tip Blogs
Tags : Pathology, Physiology
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Sunday,
April
17th,
2011
So you have just watched the London Marathon and have thought…. ‘I would love to do that, it looks like so much fun!’ All those people, the atmosphere, the colours, the race and of course ‘it’s all for charity mate’. So here are a few tips to set you on your way! 1. Go and [...]
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Categories : General Physiology, Top Tip Blogs
Tags : Health, Physiology
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Thursday,
April
14th,
2011
Catherine Zeta Jones has been into therapy for a condition called Bipolar Disorder. So here are the main facts about the condition. 1. Bipolar Disorder is, as the name describes, a switch between two opposites – Bi and Polar. The opposites are emotions and moods. People who suffer from the condition switch from periods of [...]
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Categories : Celebrity Diseases, Toxicology & Drugs
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Thursday,
April
14th,
2011
photo credit: OliBac This week saw the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight with Uri Gagarin spending just under two hours orbiting the earth. A few years later we had the first men on the moon. The longest single space flight is over 437 days orbiting the earth but since then we haven’t [...]
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