Human STEAM

For a STEAM project, I decided to reflect on the knee joint’s structure and functions. The knee is the largest joint in the human body and helps keep the body stable and moving. This project aims to explain and show how detailed one of the human body’s critical joints is. …

I chose to do my STEAM project about the spinal disc herniation. I drew a picture of what it looks like in the spinal structure, and you can see that the middle disc is pushing towards the nerves. This is where the pain comes from since the disc slips out …

Topic: Tennis athletes bone/muscle structure changing relative to non-tennis athletes Objective: Relate the interaction of muscles and the skeletal system Written Statement: Tennis athletes are consistently causing forces that impact the bones along with different lower body muscle groups. This is especially for the knees and the muscles that are …

As depicted in my art piece, osteoarthritis can be classified into five different grades: none (0), doubtful (1), minimal (2), moderate (3), and severe (4). Grade zero (none) is the absence of osteoarthritis, grade one (doubtful) can be described as doubtful joint space narrowing, grade two (minimal) has definite osteophytes …

The END lets remember to brush and floss.

My STEAM project is on the neuromuscular autoimmune disorder myasthenia gravis. This relates to the course objective, “Describe how a muscle contraction is induced”. The first image is of a neuromuscular junction of a healthy individual, while the second is of an individual with myasthenia gravis. Typical NMJ An action …

For the art portion of my project, I used clay to construct a model of a healthy motor neuron and muscle.  I also constructed a model of a motor neuron affected by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS and a muscle suffering from atrophy.    I have labeled dendrites, nucleus, cell …