My STEAM Project focused on the largest organ of the human body, the skin. Personally, I am particularly curious as to how it remains strong and resilient despite the many breaches humans subject it to. My project aims to describe tattoos and its effect on skin tissues and other related …
Human decomposition is one of the most grotesque aspects of the cycle of life, but to me, it is also one of the most interesting. How does the body go from what we all look like, to a pile of bones, with no tissue, or fluids left behind? In the …
The knee is a joint that helps us move, and it is the largest joint in the human body as we know. Two major muscles work with the knee joint to help us move, within the two major muscles there are some smaller muscles. The types of muscles around the …
How the brain converts sounds waves into recognizable units, such as speech or environmental noise, is a complex system. This auditory system starts with the ear where sound waves are converted into electrical stimuli that can be uncoded by the brain. For a person with sensorineural hearing loss, a type …
In my project I created 4 stages of cancer development out of cupcakes in this order: The first cupcake (blue genetic material is a normal cell, the second cupcake is a mutated cell that is not yet cancerous, the third step of cupcakes (2 cupcakes) are malignant or cancerous cells …
When looking at the human body and all of its functions, we often look at the body systems. But what really makes all of these systems and what are their building blocks? I wanted to devote my STEAM project to looking not only as something that is looked over, but …
The STEAM topic I chose this semester involves acid-base homeostasis in the human body as well as some examples of where we can find these acidic, alkaline, or neutral substances.
My STEAM project portrays how Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) affects a person’s perception of the world. GAD is a disorder that causes high levels of anxiety in response to things that would not normally be that stressful, such as driving, talking to other people and even being in the same …
I created a watercolor booklet of the brain lobes for my project. I thought this was really interesting because our brain essentially makes us who we are and controls what we do. Throughout the booklet, I highlighted which region of the brain is active during certain activities or everyday tasks.
