For my STEAM project I decided to do Scleroderma. Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by the tightening and hardening of the skin and underlying connective tissues. This is caused by the overproduction of collagen in the connective tissues. For the art portion of this project, I used construction paper …
In this project we have the comparison to a regular knee and a knee that has osteoarthritis. The éclair contains a pastry cream that represents the bone marrow, also there is the lateral collateral ligament along with the fibular collateral ligament made out of twizzles. There is chocolate that presents …
For my STEAM project, I wasn’t too sure what to create (as I’m not quite a creative person), but I decided to relate it to the topic of a neuron and an action potential. Although a neuron’s appearance looks simple, their involvement with action potentials is very significant, as they …
For my steam project, I covered the objective “describe in depth each type of epithelial and connective tissue. Be able to describe their function and location.” I used makeup as well as digital art to show the stages of bruising as well as how it looks at a cellular level. …
My STEAM project is a comic styled book that I’ve written and illustrated. This comic highlights and personifies one of the many jobs of a motor protein called kinesin and how it works in order to support brain function more specifically, how it helps neurons carry action potentials. This little …
For my STEAM project, I chose to cover the knee joint objective. Furthermore, I researched how Synovial Chondromatosis affects the knee joint. For my project, I showed a healthy knee joint, a knee joint with Primary Synovial Chondromatosis, and a knee joint with Secondary Synovial Chondromatosis and Osteoarthritis. I depicted …
For my steam project I did an acrylic painting of the colon, or the large intestine. You can see how I painted the cuboidal epithelial tissue above the blood vessels with a layer of soil upon it. This soil represents bifidobacteria, which is the first layer of bacteria we feed …
Here I have my project on the Immune System. I had the thought it would be catchy making a spin-off of the ‘Infinity Wars’ movie. Instead having it as ‘Lifetime Wars’ since the human body is always being bombarded by the flu, virus, and other bacterium. On …
Pictures STEM In the pictures above I used fondant to make the hand/insects, water colors for the paint, cake for the base, toothpicks for the labels, and real Alaskan bear bone that my brother-inlaw hunted this year. 🙂 Although it’s not something we like to think about, human or animal …