Work hands-on with a human patient simulation robot, complete authentic medical tests and use an ultrasound simulator to diagnose and understand heart disease.
MedLab: Heart Disease
For Grades 7-12
- Location: Griffin MSI
- Capacity: 30 students
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Cost: $240
- Offered Tuesday through Friday 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
- Learn that one's health choices have direct effect on one's own health.
- Learn how personal choices impact community health issues.
- Understand the connection between individual health and community health.
- Actively engage in hands-on, inquiry-based science investigation.
- Share Learning Lab-generated thoughts, ideas and questions with peers and program facilitators.
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Classroom connections
All of our Learning Labs are designed to integrate curriculum standards and connections into your classroom!
Skyline Scope & Sequence
- 7th: Chemical Reactions; Populations & Ecosystems
- 8th: Natural Selection
- HS Biology: Unit 1; Unit 2; Unit 3
- 8th: Light Waves
Next 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
Extend learning with these resources
Activities
- Become familiar with the field of health science by participating in six hands-on vital sign activities and apply what you learn to complete a patient diagnosis.Vital Signs (zip)
- Calculate and visualize the amount of carbohydrates, proteins and fats that are in their foods and learn how to interpret a nutrition label.Nutrition (Zip)
- Participate in a classroom enactment of glucose homeostasis in the body and learn the effects of diabetes on glucose regulation.Diabetes (ZIP)
- Learn various types of exercises and the effects on the body.Exercise (Zip)
- Create models of plaque formation and atherosclerosis and explore degrees of arterial blockages.Heart Disease (Zip)
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