By Rick Mayer
The Tampa Tribune

Photo Gallery: Great American Teach-In

Madison Flowers, a second-grader at Dale Mabry Elementary School, pretends she’s the heart during a demonstration of the circulatory system during the Great American Teach-In on Wednesday Nov 15.

The demonstration, on the school pavilion, was planned by Martha Mayer, a registered nurse at Tampa General Hospital. Mayer drew a pretend circulatory system with chalk and tape on the basketball court, and the children acted as parts of the body, including lungs, hearts, blood, oxygen, white blood cells, platelets, etc.

The students then walked through the “body” to learn how things work. Flowers and the other students are in Charlene Helsel’s second-grade class.

Martha Mayer, a nurse at Tampa General Hospital, explains how the circulatory system works to students in Charlene Helsel’s second-grade class at Dale Mabry Elementary School during the Great American Teach-In on Wednesday Nov. 15.

Mayer drew a pretend circulatory system with chalk and tape on the basketball court, and the children acted as parts of the body, including lungs, hearts, blood, oxygen, white blood cells, platelets, etc. The students then walked through the “body” to learn how things work.

Second-graders in Charlene Helsel’s class at Dale Mabry Elementary School pretend they are part of the circulatory system during a demonstration for the Great American Teach-In on Wednesday Nov. 15.

The demonstration, on the school pavilion, was planned by Martha Mayer, a registered nurse at Tampa General Hospital. Mayer drew a pretend circulatory system with chalk and tape on the basketball court, and the children acted as parts of the body, including lungs, hearts, blood, oxygen, white blood cells, platelets, etc.

The students then walked through the “body” to learn how things work.

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