3.1 Blood

• Biologie
• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 3

U3: the circulatory system

What to expect in U3

• What is blood, 
• How does blood travel through our body,
• The heart (practicum),
• Blood vessels,
• Cardiovascular diseases (guest speaker).

Planning for today + learning goals

•  3.1: Blood (10-15 min)
• Practice 3.1 (15 min)
• Quiz (10 min)

Learning goals:

1. You can explain what blood is made of using the terms blood plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets. 
2. You can explain the functions of these parts.

What do you know
about blood already?

The function of blood

the composition of blood

--> blood plasma:

• Carries substances + fibrinogen (clotting)

--> solids

• Red blood cells, 
• White blood cells, 
• Platelets.

Red blood cell

White blood cell

Platelets

Red blood cells

• Primary function: carrying oxygen.

• Contains Haemoglobin.

Haemoglobin can hold oxygen and also release it again.

White blood cells

• Function: destroy pathogens (ziekteverwekkers)
  

• No fixed shape.
  

• Pus: dead white blood cells and bacteria.
  

White blood cell following a pathogen.

Platelets

•  Function: Important in clotting.

• Platelets are not cells: they are parts of broken-up cells.

Practice!

Read 3.1 Blood 

Make ex. 2,3 4 & 6

What you don't finish will be homework!

Which part of the blood makes pathogens harmless?

One of the substances that tobacco smoke contains is carbon monoxide. In the blood, carbon monoxide takes up the sites where oxygen is normally held.

When skin is damaged, it clots the blood to form a

Red blood cell

White blood cell

Platelets

Blood plasma

Red blood cells

White blood cells

Platelets