Learn about and assess vital signs as an indicator of overall health as you assume professional roles found throughout a medical setting.
MedLab: Asthma
For Grades 7-12
- Location: Griffin MSI
- Capacity: 30 students
- Duration: 45 minutes
- Cost: $240
- Offered Tuesday and Thursday at 10:15 and 11:45 a.m.

Lab goals
During every session we aim to have students reach understanding and have fun along the way!
Student outcomes
- Increase understanding and knowledge of medical sciences and related career paths.
- Learn that one's health choices have direct effect on one's own health.
- Understand the connection between individual health and community health.
- Actively engage in hands-on, inquiry-based science investigation.
- Share Learning Lab-related thoughts, ideas and questions with peers and program facilitators.
Explore career pathways
Explore Health CareersNext Generation Science Standards
All of our Learning Labs are designed to integrate curriculum standards and connections into your classroom!
Science and Engineering Practices:
- Asking questions and defining problems
- Developing and using models
- Planning and carrying out investigations
- Analyzing and interpreting data
- Using mathematics and computational thinking
- Constructing explanations and designing solutions
- Engaging in argument from evidence
- Obtaining, evaluating and communicating information
Crosscutting Concepts
- Patterns
- Cause and effect
- Structure and function
- Systems and system models
- Stability and change
Disciplinary Core Ideas
- Middle School LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- Middle School LS1.A: Structure and Function
- Middle School LS1.B: Growth and Development of Organisms
- Middle School ETS2: Links among engineering, technology science and society
- High School LS 1: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
- High School LS1.A: Structure and Function
- High School LS 3: Heredity: inheritance and variation of traits
- High School ETS2: Links among engineering, technology science and society
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Acknowledgements
This program was supported by the Office Of The Director, National Institutes Of Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R25OD011192. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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