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You Gotta Have Heart: Congenital Heart Defects and Heart Surgery

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Assess anatomists' understanding of the structure of the mammalian heart by giving a pretest. Have them visit some websites to further learn about heart anatomy. Then take them into the laboratory to perform a dissection so that they get...
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Student Investigation on the Immune System and Hemeagglutination

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students perform an experiment to demonstrate the principles of antibody-antigen binding, the secondary immune response, cross reactivity, and complement fixation. The materials to be used include antibodies from a rabbit that was...
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Sheep Heart Dissection

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders examine a sheep heart. In this biology lesson, 5th graders dissect a sheep heart to identify the parts of a heart including the aorta, valve, septum, and ventricle.
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Inside the Cranium: Neuropsychiatric Disorders

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars analyze different regions of the brain which are responsible for different aspects of cognition, awareness and regulating the body's process.
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Pump It Up

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the anatomy and functions of a heart. In this heart study lesson, students read a book about the heart and study a plaster heart model. Students take their own pulse in various stages of rest as well as active...