Human STEAM

 The paper will define crush injuries and explain the sudden release of toxic chemicals that lead to a high level of the electrolyte potassium in the blood, therefore disrupting the body’s pH and making it more acidic. Treatment of crush injuries is also discussed. The document will directly correlate Unit …

I used polymer clay to create two different brains-a healthy one and one with Alzheimers’ disease. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurologic disorder, which results in cerebral atrophy and brain cell death.  A brain with Alzheimer’s disease can be easily identified by its external appearance.

This picture shows the difference between a foot with Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) and one without. The right model is a normal foot and the left is the malformed one. Typically, people who have this genetic disease do have malformation on both feet, though I chose to just make two …

My objective is to describe the stages of mitosis, and my topic is to describe how cancer can form within the cell cycle Mitosis, also known as the mitotic phase within the cell cycle, consists of seven phases: prophase, prometaphase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase, and lastly cytokinesis. Mitosis plays a major …

My STEAM project is on Ankylosing spondylitis, also known as bamboo spine. This condition is an arthritic chronic inflammatory condition that can occur in many joints in the human body and the spine. Each section has its own color of gummy lifesavers (representing the vertebral disks) and its own number …

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My project is about the movement about the arm, mainly the movements of the forearm and the wrist.

With unclothed blood vessels, blood is able to flow through the body allowing for normal function. When there is a clot of a blood vessel in the brain, a ischemic stroke occurs. This leads to a damaged brain and damaged nerve cells. The nerves cells, as a result of the …

I used cupcakes and icing in order to depict PET scans of the brain. The different cupcakes showcase different areas of mental activity while having different mental illnesses. The top to bottom of the cupcakes depict the front to back of the brain from a top view. This means that …