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 …
For this STEAM project, I decided to cover the topic “Explain how the heart translates an electrical signal to a contraction” (#39). By doing so, I created a booklet designed to interpret ECG’s (Electrocardiogram) for various rhythms that the heart can transmit. In each rhythm, and by understanding basic ECG …
David Inman Man on a Mountain with no oxygen. Depicting the struggle of breathing with COPD: Emphysema.
For my steam project I decided to do a model of the trachea and the gas exchange that occurs within the trachea as well. The objective was to highlight the importance of the trachea and its structure while also highlighting the role of gaseous exchange of both oxygen and carbon …
For this assignment I focused on the Unit 4 objective: compare and contrast different mammalian digestive systems. This project uses a classic game known as “Chutes and Ladders” to demonstrate the differences in the human digestive tract versus the cow digestive tract. The chutes are replaced with “tracts” to remake …