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Students in the 21st CCLC curriculum at Clarkton School of Discovery spent Thursday afternoon learning about DNA and blood typing onboard the DESTINY Traveling Science Lab.
Students performed two experiments onboard the mobile lab. One exercise was called Code Red and engaged students in learning about the composition and physiology of blood. for this exercise, students had to analyze the components of a scab and identify the substances comprising human blood. Students also had to analyze the genetic and cellular basis of blood types and understand the importance of blood types during transfusions. As part of the exercise, students got to test simulated blood samples to determine safe transfusions.
A second exercise called Genes in a Bottle required students to extract DNA from their cheek cells using a simple laboratory procedure and watch it precipitate from a solution as floating white strands.
The DESTINY Traveling Science Learning Program is a science education outreach initiative of the Morehead Planetarium and Science Center at UNC-Chapel Hill that serves pre-college teachers and schools across North Carolina. DESTINY develops and delivers a standards-based, hands-on curriculum and teacher professional development.
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