Students experiment with household acids and bases and discover how medications can produce and upset stomach. This laboratory features the skeleton, bones and nutrition required to build strong bones. Various kinds of broken bones are explained and the making of a cast is demonstrated. Student teams build and test models of strong bones. The role of the brain and message carrying by the nervous system is explored.
Students extract DNA from duck blood and learn about karyotyping and forensic DNA profiling.
Students discover how their breathing machine works, the connections of our brains to breathing, the affect of smoking on lungs and the use of technology to help people breathe in emergency situations. Students become immersed in an activity in which they become physicians and must recommend headache medications to students with stomach conditions. Mammalian hearts are compared and students measure the chambers of preserved dog or pig hearts. They hypothesize the relationship between structure and function.