Poo transplants: Thinking Classroom version

Poo transplants: Thinking Classroom version

A poo transplant takes faeces from one person and puts it into another. Why? Scientists have learned that this can improve physical and mental health by changing a person's gut microbiome - the bacteria living in the intestines.

In this activity, students advise an obese friend whether a faecal transplant could help him lose weight. 

Poo transplants is designed to take around one lesson. It could be used at the end of a teaching sequence to practice higher-order thinking.

The new version integrates practices from Peter Liljedahl's Thinking Classroom, with a 3-part structure to support student thinking in collaborative groups:

  • CARE: Students are introduced to the issue and posed a question
  • KNOW: Students review the prior knowledge they will need to complete the task
  • DO: Students read sources and judge their quality

Curriculum links

  • Concept: Digestive system
  • Skill: Judge quality of a source
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Poo transplants is a resource developed for the CONNECT project.

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