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 <booze...@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 <rjbu...@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 <kmerriam2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > From: Kim Merriam <kmerriam2...@yahoo.com> > Subject: [Histonet] histology for kids > To: "Histonet" <histonet@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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > > _______________________________________________ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > -- Anne van Binsbergen (Hope) Abu Dhabi UAE _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet