Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurologic disorder that causes the brain to atrophy and cells to decay. This disorder is identified from cognitive impairment accompanied by the formation of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. I was able to represent AD in my project by having a …
My project was on The Integumentary system and the stages of wound healing utilizing a skin graft. I shared an experience that I had personally gone through as part of this project. For the creative portion of this project, I created a cake outlining each layer of the Integumentary system. …
Osteoporosis is a disease which causes bones to become fragile and easily broken. While it can affect anybody, the most susceptible to developing osteoporosis are women who are post-menopausal, this being considered Type I Osteoporosis. This project will show how bone development is hormonally regulated, and when those hormones are …
For my STEAM project, the learning objective that I will be focusing on is describing the functions of the integumentary. Additionally, I will also be discussing the chronic skin disorder of eczema. The integumentary system is comprised of the skin and its accessory structures. The skin is the largest organ …
My course objective covered is the muscles involved around the knee joint. In particular, I am focusing on the hamstring muscles and what happens when muscle strain occurs. A muscle strain or tear occurs when the tissue that connects to bones becomes inflamed and tears (Pruthi, et. al, 2022). Muscle …
The piece is reminiscent of “skeletons in the closet”. As such, the outer layer depicts two opening closet doors. The image shows a corpse with its body parts in various stages of decomposition, surrounded by colorful papers. I used oil pastels, cardboard, and origami paper. With this image, I depicted …
This project is a representation of the mutation of mitochondria in Parkinson’s disease patients. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a degenerative nerve disease of the central nervous system. I chose this project as I was interested in different organelle functions and my grandma has parkinsons. Most PD sufferers develop symptoms past …
By: Eric Kelly The course objective that I am going to cover in my STEAM project is “Know the stages of bone development and repair”. In order to fulfill this objective, I will start my project by briefly describing the stages of bone development of long bones before continuing on …
