Kinesthetic and visual scaffolding for understanding oxygen delivery and reading hemoglobin oxygen curves.

I describe a kinesthetic activity about oxygen handling by hemoglobin with two specific goals: ) to help students gain a better understanding of how hemoglobin properties affect oxygen delivery and ) to improve the ability of the students to actually read the hemoglobin oxygen-binding curve. The activity makes understanding oxygen delivery more intuitive, provides a kinesthetic analog to delivery of oxygen, and provides data to plot for the hemoglobin-oxygen curve.