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Badger Science Year 8 Starter: the Incredible Journey

This is a starter activity in which students describe the route of a molecule of oxygen from air in the lungs to a muscle in a leg. A simple circulation “map” is provided to enable students to trace the route from the lungs, through the heart and to the leg. The map is supplied in 2 forms
at different levels of difficulty. Curriculum links include circulatory system, heart, blood vessles

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