Human STEAM – Page 150 – Creative Projects from UAF Human A+P Students

Taryn Aho November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020 STEAM Projects

Meningitis Comic

This is a comic showing the affects meningitis has on different key structures of the nervous system.

For my STEAM Project, I chose to illustrate bone density in an active and inactive elderly women. I illustrated this using moose bones and clay. My goal was to relate this back to bone development and repair. Attached you will see the difference in an active and inactive elderly women. The active women shows good bone health, whereas the inactive women is already suffering from osteoporosis.

Wohlers STEAM 2020

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Elayne Grullon November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020 STEAM Projects

~Endometriosis~ Elayne Grullon

For my STEAM Project, I created an embroidery of endometriosis.

Jovonna McCormick November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020 Uncategorized

Multiple Sclerosis and the Central Nervous System

My topic is about how MS affects the body. It affects the central nervous system ( the brain and the spinal cord) which affects the rest of the body. I also compared and contrast the PNS and CNS. MS affects many systems of the body including the digestive, immune, skeletal, …

Tiffany Martinez November 23, 2020 November 24, 2020 Uncategorized

Sensory cells

For my project I compared and contrasted this different sensory cells and also compared them to the sensory cells we have within our teeth.

Kristina Jacobsen November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020 Uncategorized

STEAM Project: NMDA Receptor Hypofunction and Detectable Psychosis

This project focuses on the NMDA neuroreceptor and demonstrated hypofunction in correlation with detectable psychosis.

Nicholas Harrison November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020 Uncategorized

Osgood-Schlatter Disease

For my STEAM project, I did Osgood-Schlatter Disease. OSD is a disease that stems from the overuse of the patellar tendon and causes a protruding section of bone at the tibial tuberosity. This impacts approximately 20% of physically active adolescents who are skeletally immature and the effects usually subside within …

Clover Erickson November 22, 2020 November 22, 2020 STEAM Projects

Achilles Tendon Ruptures

For my STEAM project I wanted to more in depth into Achilles tendon injuries. I made a model of the tendon and its attaching muscle and bone. My visual was made from house hold items, reusing the skeletal model from our lab kits. For the first leg model I carefully …

Morgan Judkins November 21, 2020 November 21, 2020 STEAM Projects

Multiple Sclerosis

For my STEAM project I did multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a autoimmune disease that affects the nerve cells of the CNS. I used styrofoam and pipe cleaners to make a damaged nerve cell. I used felt sheets to show the damage that the immune system does to the myelin …

Jailyn Hitchings November 21, 2020 November 21, 2020 Uncategorized

Alcohol Related Peripheral Neuropathy

My STEAM project shows the symptoms that can be experienced due to sensory nerve damage from alcohol related peripheral neuropathy. My dad has alcohol related peripheral neuropathy. Without feeling it ourselves, my family and I have always struggled to understand exactly how the pain feels to him. He described his …