[Histonet] histology for kids

[Anne van Binsbergen]

red food colouring, green and blue too as well as beetroot and grape juice
and saffron could be tried in advance on the slides - just to see how
colours can be combined
you will only know by testing in advance - or you may end up with a brown
sludge covering the whole section
look at hairs and fleas and tiny bugs under the 'scope - they always
intrigue kids
skin scales on a slide stained with 3 diff kwik solutions or a PAP stain
would work too
just my 5cents worth
Anne

2009/7/22 Kathleen Boozer <BoozerKA <@t> ah.org>

> Maybe you could use a sponge (representing tissue) soaked in water and
> demonstrate cutting (ragged) vs. a sponge soaked in wax and cooled
> (precise cutting) explaining the water is taken out of the cells and
> replaced with wax.
>
> >>> Rene J Buesa <rjbuesa <@t> yahoo.com> 07/22/2009 07:15 >>>
> Try saffron, in reality it is an acceptable stain for "regular grown-up
> histology" as well.
> René J.
>
> --- On Wed, 7/22/09, Kim Merriam <kmerriam2003 <@t> yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Kim Merriam <kmerriam2003 <@t> yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Histonet] histology for kids
> To: "Histonet" <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2009, 9:57 AM
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> My company is hosting an in-house science awareness day for local
> grade-school students.  I would love to teach them about histology, but
> all of the demonstrations need to be done in our conference room (thus,
> nothing hazardous).  Does anyone know of any house-hold dyes (grape
> juice, food coloring, beet juice, etc) that would stain tissue elements
> on slides?  I would like to bring down some deparaffinized tissues and
> stain them with something and throw a coverslip on (water-mounted) so
> that they can look at the tissue with a microscope.  I will also bring
> some already prepared slides (wtih real stains) for them to look at.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Kim
>
>
> Kim Merriam, MA, HT(ASCP)QIHC
> Cambridge, MA
>
>
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