My STEAM project is about the differences between two types of birth control, the vaginal ring and the hormonal IUD. It falls under the objective describing how ovulation, menses, pregnancy, and spermatogenesis are hormonally regulated. I am going to be talking about how both types of birth control regulate the …
The objective being covered in this project is regarding the cardiovascular system with the question: “Explain how the heart translates an electrical signal to a contraction”. Additionally, the question of how nicotine can affect this process and explain the positive correlation between elevated heart rate as a result of nicotine, …
Blood is made up of four main components which each have different job’s to do in the body. Whole blood is described as “the blood that runs through the veins, arteries, and capillaries.” (American society) Together, red blood cells and plasma make up most of blood’s volume. Red blood cells …
The objective that I’ll be covering is: Describe placental formation and function. There are many factors that make pregnancy in humans unique compared to other animals. Humans have long gestation periods and fetuses that grow very large compared to their mother’s body size. Childbirth is unusually painful, and the resulting …
By: Maximus Addington and Amelia Dell The objective covered that this project intends to go into great depth on is comparing and contrasting hearts in the animal kingdom. In order to go into more detail than what was covered in lecture this project illustrates the specific anatomical layout and consequent …
Brief description: For my STEAM project, the learning objective that I will be focusing on is describing how immunity can be acquired through passive and active means. Mr. and Mrs. Active Immunity represent, well, active immunity. We develop an active response after being exposed to pathogens (whether by getting sick or …
Objective covered: Describe the 4 general layers of the digestive system and their function.
For this project, Max and I looked at different hearts of different animals and compared how they evolved to look different, but form similar functions. Here we made Brownies, and iced them with the different heart structures. Each heart is unique in its own way and can have either four …
Deciding to undergo surgery is a very big, life-altering, decision. A very common procedure is vertical sleeve gastrectomy. Sounds complicated, but is the simpler surgery to get. This surgery is also known as a gastric sleeve. With this surgery, a doctor will remove about eighty percent of the stomach and …