Cleft Lip

My project is about the tissue involved in the development of a cleft lip and palate. If a patient has a cleft lip they are more likely to have a cleft palate as well. My research covers how a cleft palate is developed in the womb to the consequences of …

Tissue repair

This project explores what the 4 general tissue types look like after injury and how they repair. I cut out a board to resemble a human forearm then covered it with sheets of fabric and used other materials to illustrate the layers of skin, muscle and nervous tissue. Enjoy this …

Rickets Disease

I did my steam project on the disease rickets and how it effects the different shapes of bones in the body. Predominantly rickets causes long bones in the body to have poor bone growth and bony deformities such as bow-legs (shown in photo), resulting from abnormalities of the growth plate …

Different Types of Bone Fractures and How They Occur

For my project, I decided to research different types of bone fractures. In classwe covered bone structure, how bones heal, and touched on fractures, but we didn’t getinto the type of fractures much, which I thought would be very interesting to learn about.My original idea was to acquire actual bones …

Molecular Structure of Water and its Properties

Water is a polar molecule that consists of one oxygen molecule and two hydrogen molecules. From this polar molecular structure water forms hydrogen bonds that play a part in all of water’s material properties. These properties include cohesion, surface tension, high specific heat, low density as a solid, and acting …